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Title: The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
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Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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patients and the protection of property, was usually composed of convalescent patients and members of the A eteran Reserve Corps.The surgeon in command of a general hospital had full military control over all persons and property connected with his institution,reported directly to the War Department and surgeon-general and received his orders therefrom. He usually had one or moreassistants. The medical staff ordinarily numbered about one to each seventy-five patients. A medical officer of the day. detailedby roster, was always on duty, performing routine duties in relation to the proper management of the hospital and responding toany emergency in professional, administrative, or disciplinary matters. The ward surgeons had duties almost exclusively profes-sional and similar to those performed by the resident physicians of civil hospitals. Two women are sitting by one of the cots-(H-18) GENERAL S. P. HEINTZELMAN AND FRIENDS AT THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE CONVALESCENT CAMP IN ALEXANDRIA Wi ;
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The photographs on these two pages tell their own pathetic story—the story not of the wounded and suffer-ing soldiers, but of their thrice-suffering womenkind. To this convalescent camp in Alexandria camethe anxious wives and mothers, sweethearts and sisters to find their soldiers whom they had perhaps not seenfor months or years. The mourning of the woman on the veranda tells the tale of a soldier-boy that isgone. Perhaps she has come to bring the aid and comfort to others which she was denied the privilegeof lavishing on her brother or son. The quaint costumes of the time are very well illustrated in this photo-graph. Then a woman apparently put on a cap at forty, sometimes before. The little girls wear such (276)

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