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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 7: Prisons and Hospitals. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 1.9 (search)
rs, they worked with nurses appointed by the surgeons, or with volunteers. Every city or town containing a convent had in the inmates willing workers, who went where sickness and suffering were found. With the ambulance corps: transportation of Federal sick and wounded Edward L. Munson, M. D., Major, Medical Department, United States Army Well-equipped ambulance bearers of the army of the Potomac, 1862—drill in removing wounded Removing the wounded from Marye's heights, May 2, 1864: ambulance corps of the fifty-seventh New York infantry This spirited scene of mercy followed close on the assault and capture of the famous Stone Wall at Fredericksburg, May 2, 1863. The ambulances belong to the Fifty-seventh New York, which suffered a terrible loss when it helped, as a part of Sedgwick's Corps, to carry Marye's Heights. Out of one hundred and ninety-two men engaged, eight were killed, seventy-eight were wounded, and one was reported missing, a loss of forty-five pe
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 7: Prisons and Hospitals. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), With the ambulance corps: transportation of Federal sick and wounded (search)
With the ambulance corps: transportation of Federal sick and wounded Edward L. Munson, M. D., Major, Medical Department, United States Army Well-equipped ambulance bearers of the army of the Potomac, 1862—drill in removing wounded Removing the wounded from Marye's heights, May 2, 1864: ambulance corps of the fifty-seventh New York infantry This spirited scene of mercy followed close on the assault and capture of the famous Stone Wall at Fredericksburg, May 2, 1863. The ambulances belong to the Fifty-seventh New York, which suffered a terrible loss when it helped, as a part of Sedgwick's Corps, to carry Marye's Heights. Out of one hundred and ninety-two men engaged, eight were killed, seventy-eight were wounded, and one was reported missing, a loss of forty-five per cent. Then the ambulance train was rushed to the front. Within half an hour all the wounded were in the field hospitals. The corps still had many of the short, sharply tilting, jolting two-wheeled amb