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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-
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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hooters on Maryes Heights after the second battle of Fredericksburg. A hospital orderly is attending to the wantsof the one on the left-hand page, and the wounds of the others have been dressed. In the entry of John L. Maryes handsome mansionclose by lay a group of four Indian sharpshooters, each with the loss of a limb—of an arm at the shoulder, of a leg at the knee, or withan amputation at the thigh. They neither spoke nor moaned, but suffered and died, mute in their agony. During the campaignof 1864, from the Wilderness to Appomattox, Captain Ely S. Parker, a gigantic Indian, became one of Grants favorite aids. Beforethe close of the war he had been promoted to the rank of colonel, and it was he who drafted in a beautiful handwriting theterms of Lees surrender. He stood over six feet in height and was a conspicuous figure on Grants staff. The Southwestern In-dians engaged in some of the earliest battles under General Albert Pike, a Northerner by birth, but a Southern sympathizer.
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COPYRIGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. HELPLESS WOUNDED DURING THE ACTION AT SPOTSYLVANIA Written on the back of this print the editors of the Photographic History found the words: On thebattlefield of Spotsylvania, in the rear during the action. The place has been identified by comparisonwith many other photographs as Maryes Heights. Much of the battlefield surgery during the war was,in all probability, not only unnecessary but harmful. The rate of mortality after operation, 14.2 per cent.,though .shocking to the present generation, was inevitable, owing to the defective knowledge at the tuneas to surgical cleanliness. While the same number of operations could probably be performed by modernmilitary surgeons with a small fraction of the Civil War death-rates, it is now recognized that niost gunshotcases do better under surgical cleanliness, antiseptic and expectant treatment than by operation. Tlieadvantage of this conservative procedure was well illustrated by the war in Manchuria o

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