. A report on a plan for transporting wounded soldiers by railway in time of war : with descriptions of various methods employed for this purpose on different occasions . e sides of the vehicle, and filled withstraw, and made more comfortable by being floored by narrow elastic slats. Inall cases, large window-spaces were sawn out of the ends and sides of the car toafford ventilation. There was often cause to remark on the great ingenuity dis-played, On this and other similar occasions, by the line officers, quartermastersmen, and the soldiers themselves, in improvising various contrivances for
. A report on a plan for transporting wounded soldiers by railway in time of war : with descriptions of various methods employed for this purpose on different occasions . e sides of the vehicle, and filled withstraw, and made more comfortable by being floored by narrow elastic slats. Inall cases, large window-spaces were sawn out of the ends and sides of the car toafford ventilation. There was often cause to remark on the great ingenuity dis-played, On this and other similar occasions, by the line officers, quartermastersmen, and the soldiers themselves, in improvising various contrivances for thecomfort of the wounded subjected to these rough modes of an intelligent adaptation of the means at hand, it was found practicable * Also known as the battle of Springfield, where the Union commander, the lamented Gen-eral Nathaniel Lyon lost his life. Major General Fremonts oflBcial report states the Unionloss at 223 killed, 721 wounded, 291 missing. Assistant Surgeon H. M. Sprague, U. S. A„ whoremained with the wounded on the field, records their number as 1175. See Appendix to PartI, Medical and Surgical History of the Behellion, p. Fig. 1.—Interior oj an improvised hospital car. AND WOUNDED ON EAIL EOADS. 7 to make the condition of the wounded on freight cars very tolerable, with theaid of articles belonging to the field equipment alone. As the official whovouchsafed to assume charge of the models of hospital equipment and means oftransport sent by this Office and by the Quartermasters Department to theParis Exposition, in 1867, and to exhibit them, with other contributions,as material supplied by the United States Sanitary Commission, has repre-sented that the system of supporting litters on upright frames was intro-duced by a member of that Commission,* it is as well to expose here the factthat this plan was in use before the Commission was organized. After the Army of the Potomac left the vicinity of Washington, the sickand wounded were re
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