Identifier: photographichist07mill (find matches)
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-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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be excellent, and the temporary hospitalbuildings in the city were abandoned as soon as practicable, the largerfactories only being Ietained and used. This segregation of the sickand wounded was highly beneficial. If the condition of a ward, fromwhatever cause, required its abandonment, it was done without troubleor much cost to the Government. It may be stated that cases of hos-pital gangrene were, as a rule, removed from wards and treated in tents,with decided benefit. General hospitals, on this plan, were establishedwhenever and wherever deemed necessary. This was sometimes attendedwith delay ; for the jNIedical Department, instead of being an independentbureau, building and furnishing hospitals, had to depend entirely uponthe Quartermasters and Commissary departments. Hence, much delaywas experienced in obtaining proper hospital accommodations, andin such cases blame was attached to the medical bureau, which it neverdeserved.* * Southern Practitioner, vol. xxxi, pp. 492-493. (280)
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THE FIRST-HAND RECORDS OF THE PENSION SYSTEM QUARTERS OF CHIEF OF AMBULANCE, FIRST DIVISION, NINTH CORPS, IN FRONT OF PETERSBURG, 180i The army surgeon in the field had clerical duties as well as medical. An elaborate system of records, upon which the accuracy ofthe whole pension system of the Government rests, had to be maintained. Here tlie mortality statistics of the first division. NinthCorps. Army of the Potomac, were collected and preserved. The field desks had handles on the end, as seen, and were easily portable.

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