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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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llyequipped and trained organizations resulted in a vast amountof suffering during the first eighteen months of the war, andgave rise to much criticism of the Medical Department whichthe latter in nowise deserved. A carefully matured plan for the organization of a hos-pital corps, to belong to the Medical Department and takeover work which was at that time being inefficiently done bysome sixteen thousand enlisted men detailed from the line of thearmy, was submitted to the Secretary of War on August 21,1862, but failed of adoption as a result of the opposition ofGeneral Halleck, general-in-chief. An ajjpeal was then madeas follows: Surgeon-Generals Office,September 7, 1862.Hon. Edwin M. Stanton,Secretary of War.Sir : I have the honor to ask your attention to the frightful state ofdisorder existing in the arrangement for removing the wounded fromthe field of battle. The scarcity of ambulances, the want of organization,the drunkenness and incompetency of the drivers, the total absence of
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ambulance attendants are now working their legitimate results—resultswhich I feel I have no right to keep from the knowledge of the depart-ment. The whole system should be under the charge of the MedicalDepartment. An ambulance corps should be organized and set in instantoperation. . . . Up to this date six hundred wounded still remain onthe battlefield, in consequence of an insufficiency of ambulances and thewant of a proper system for regulating their removal in the Army ofVirginia. Many have died of starvation; many more will die in con-sequence of exhaustion, and all have endured torments which might havebeen avoided. I ask, sir, that you will give me your aid in this matter;that you will interpose to prevent a recurrence of such consequences ashave followed the recent battle—consequences which will inevitably ensueon the next important engagement if nothing is done to obviate them.I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, William A. Hammoxd, Surgeon-General. KALEVI

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