. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . o the great baseand general hospitals, which at one time aggregated two hun-dred and five in number. In continuance of the work of the ambulance service, therailroads and steamships were brought into use. Sometimesconditions permitted trains to be run close to the scene of actionand to receive wounded almost on the battlefield itself. Thiswas the first war of great magnitude in which railroads wereso employed. The hospital trains were under the control of the MedicalD
. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . o the great baseand general hospitals, which at one time aggregated two hun-dred and five in number. In continuance of the work of the ambulance service, therailroads and steamships were brought into use. Sometimesconditions permitted trains to be run close to the scene of actionand to receive wounded almost on the battlefield itself. Thiswas the first war of great magnitude in which railroads wereso employed. The hospital trains were under the control of the MedicalDepartment. The surgeon in charge was the sole head. Somewere made up of passenger-cars which were regularly equippedor constructed by the railroad companies for the better careof wounded; some were hastily improvised at the front fromordinary freight-cars, merely emptied of the supplies whichthey had brought up and in which the wounded were merelylaid on beds of boughs, hay, or straw. Between the two ex-tremes there were all varieties of arrangements. Some carswere fitted with bunks; others with stanchions and supports, I. AN AMBULANCE TRAIN PARKED AT HAREWOOD HOSPITAL, THE MONTH GETTYSBURG WAS FOUGHT
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