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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A PHOTOGRAPH \\THCH HELPS TO EXPLAIN THE NATIONAL PENSION ROLL The figure farthest to the right, with the white cross on his breast, was recognized as his own portrait, a generation after the war. byHenry W. Knight, of Company B, Seventh Maine VoUmteers, one of the veterans associated with the preparation of this Photo-graphic History. The cross is the corps badge of the Sixth Corps. The man on his right is Cephas McKelvey, of the EleventhPennsylvania Volunteers, who was wounded in the arm. Both men were convalescent. The personnel of these hospitals consistedof the surgeon in command, assisted by an executive and professional staff, and with the necessary number of stewards, clerks, attend-ants, <-ooks, laundry workers, guards, etc. Nursing and similar work was cither done by details of soldiers from the line of the armyor by civilians hired or volunteering for such duty. The guard, necessary for the maintenance of order, restraint of convalescent (a7-i 1
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911, REViEtV OF REVIEAS CO. CAR\ER HOSPITAL IN WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER, 1804 patients and the protection of property, was usually composed of con\alesceiit patients and members of the Veteran 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 ortlinarily 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, a<lministrative, or disciplinary matters. The ward surgeons had duties almost exclusively profes-sional and similar to those performed by the resident phjsicians of civil hospiUils. Two women are sitting by one of the cots-(h-18) GENERAL S. P. HEINTZE

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