. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ^^t^rr- A-J5:-^c. THE BARGE AT THE MEDICAL LANDING [h-U] THE CONNECTICUT, FROM LONG ISLAND SOUND o (A of war. Such was not the case iu the first year of the CivilWar, when surgeons were captured and imnun-ed in military])risons like conihatant officers. JNIedical officers were thusoften forced to make the hard choice of deserting the woundedunder their care, often including patients from hotli sides whowere urgently requiring attention, or of remaining and suhmit-ting
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ^^t^rr- A-J5:-^c. THE BARGE AT THE MEDICAL LANDING [h-U] THE CONNECTICUT, FROM LONG ISLAND SOUND o (A of war. Such was not the case iu the first year of the CivilWar, when surgeons were captured and imnun-ed in military])risons like conihatant officers. JNIedical officers were thusoften forced to make the hard choice of deserting the woundedunder their care, often including patients from hotli sides whowere urgently requiring attention, or of remaining and suhmit-ting to cajjture, with all the rigors and sufferings that this im-jjlied. But General Jackson, after the hattle of Winchester, injNIay, 1862, Avhere he had captured tiie Federal division hospitals,took the ground that as the surgeons did not make war tlieyshould not suffer its penalties, and returned them unconditiou-ally to their own forces. The neutral status of the surgeons,thus recognized for the first time, was suhse(|uently formallyagreed ujjon hetween Generals JNlcClellan and Lee, thoughlater the agreement was for a time interrupted. Th
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