. The medical and surgical history of the war of the rebellion. (1861-65). Prepared, in accordance with the acts of Congress, under the direction of Surgeon general Joseph K. Barnes, United States army . ey will soon be removed. I have not attempted an elaborate description of this hospital for the reason that it is now in a transitionstate. The Quartermasters Department, having completed its various supply depots, is now turning Its attention tothe construction of hospitals, and has commenced building on this site pavilions for 2,200 beds. A large force is atwork and three of the pavilions ar
. The medical and surgical history of the war of the rebellion. (1861-65). Prepared, in accordance with the acts of Congress, under the direction of Surgeon general Joseph K. Barnes, United States army . ey will soon be removed. I have not attempted an elaborate description of this hospital for the reason that it is now in a transitionstate. The Quartermasters Department, having completed its various supply depots, is now turning Its attention tothe construction of hospitals, and has commenced building on this site pavilions for 2,200 beds. A large force is atwork and three of the pavilions are nearly completed. The plans adopted were somewhat similar to those announcedby the Secretary of War July 20, 1864, and since that order was received they have been modified so as to conformthereto as far as practicable, the principal difterences being that each pavilion is to be surrounded by a coveredporch, and that the width will be 22 instead of 24 feet. The quartermaster in charge informed me that he could notget timber of sufficient length to make the wards 24 feet wide, and that if he spliced the timber it would add verymuch to the cost and greatly retard the construction of the Sedgwick Hospital, Greenville, La.—Scale 120 feet to the inch : 1, Wards; 2, Administration building; 3, Guard-house, linapsack-room andBtore-house ; 4, Dining-rooms ; .5, Kitchen ; G, Cistern ; 7, Covered ways througli which a railway runs with hand-cars for carrying food to the wards. So many buildings had already been constructed or converted to hospital purposes invarious parts of the country that but few were afterwards erected on the plans approved inthis circular. The Sedgwick Hospital, Greenville, La., the Hicks, Baltimore, Md., andthe Sloan, Montpelier, Vt., were the most notable of these. The first was completed as a THE GENERAL HOSPITALS. 947 hospital of 15 pavilions, radiating frona a circular coverod-way. The buildings were shorterthan those suggested by the order of th
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