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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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COPVHIGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. AMBULANCE CORPS OF THE FIFTY-SEVENTH NEW YORK INFANTRY rocking motion proved a torment to sufferers. Several four-wheeled a.nbulanees appear, however, and later „. the war the two-wheeled and,ulanees were entirely superseded. The long lines of infantry drawn up in l.attle array in the background are ready torepel anv further assault, while the wounded are being removed on the litters. The one in the foreground (on the left) exlub.ts adeWce to elevate the patienfs limbs. The medical officer 1, gazing anxiously at the wounded soldier, and an orderly is hurr.vmg overwith some bandaging. Directly behind the orderly, bearers are lifting another sufferer on a litter into the four-wheeled ambulance.
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A FEW OF THE WOUNDED AT GETTYSBURG To these rough tents, erected by the Second Federal Army Corps, the wounded have Ijeen rushed (hiring the second and tliird daysof the mightiest of all American battles, just decided at a cost of 6,664 dead and 27,206 wounded. Accommodations are simple. Butcups hang at the front of the foremost tent wherewith to slake the sufferers thirst, and at least one woman nurse is present to soothetlieir fevered brows with the touch of her cool hands. By this time the ambulance organization of the Union armies had been per-fected. Such was the efficiency of its administration that on the early morning of the 4th of July, 1863, the day after the battle, notone wounded soldier of the thousands who had fallen was left on the field. The inspector-general of the army himself reported this1 .300 1

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