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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
Fort Sumter. The government did not insist, but determined to supersede him as soon as the moment for resuming active operations against the cradle of secession had arrived. The Washington authorities had at length profited by the experience acquired on the 7th of April, and recognized the fact that these operations, in order to be successful, should be combined between the War and Navy Departments. It was time, for, as we have stated, the fine army corps which Foster had brought to Hilton Head from North Carolina in the beginning of February had remained inactive since then. Whether General Hunter was waiting for the result of the campaigns which were being prosecuted along the borders of the Nansemond, the James, and the Potomac, or rather that his attention was distracted from his strictly military duties by his solicitude for the maintenance, the education, and the arming of fugitive negroes, he suffered the whole spring to pass without giving any other employment to his tr
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—Pennsylvania. (search)
e terrible epidemics which in spite of the progress of science have ravaged our European armies in nearly all the wars that have taken place during late years. When we take into account the total absence of cholera on the American continent during these four years of war, one is tempted to exclaim, with its inhabitants, that there is a special Providence for the United States; but when we find the scurvy everywhere crushed out in its incipiency, and the yellow fever, after having invaded Hilton Head in the fall of 1862, being promptly isolated and subdued, we must do full justice to the wise precautions of the medical corps, whose advice was seldom controverted by the executive authorities. During the first year of the war the medical department was organized with a full knowledge of the experience acquired in Europe by a physician whose name will ever be famous—Surgeon-general Hammond. The American armies were soon deprived of his services in consequence of certain incidents abo