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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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y the middleof the afternoon, tlie buildings were fairly well cleaned. Thewagons did not have to go far afield, and each floor was sooncovered with clean wheat-straw ten or twelve inches deej:): andbefoi-e midnight all the wounded were transferred from thefield-hos))ital. The provisional Army of Tennessee was at first, to someextent, supplied with spring vehicles as ambulances: but as thewar progressed, hard usage and rough roads caused them tol)reak down, and they were abandoned. Their places were sup-plied by ordinary wagons drawn by two mules and withoutsprings. Staples on the sides of the body secured white-oakl)ows. covered with heavy cotton-duck cloth, with the name ofthe regiment, brigade, division, and corps painted on the sidesof the white cover. While such ambulances afforded somewhat rough i-idingfor sick and wounded men. they were tlie best that could besupplied. Now and then, one or more well-built and eciuijjpedambulances were captured; in which case it did not take long
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COPYRIGHT, ■ RIOr PUB CO.. INSTRUMENTS OF WAR AND MERCY—THE GUN AND THE CHURCH-HOSPITAL IN 188-2 WHERE A WOMANSERVED In tlio foreground of the upperphotograph api)cars a Confederatenaval battery at Yorktown, \a,.,antl in the l>ackground the NelsonChurch Hospital. The photo-graph was taken July 1, 18(i2,after McClellans army had sweptpast nearly to Richmond, leavingwounded and fever-stricken in itstrain. After the siege of York-town, the house which had beenused as headquarters by GeneralCornwallis during the War of theRevolution was used as a hospital.It was placed in charge of Mrs.

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