. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . CARING FOR THE ANTIETAM WOUNDED IN SEPTEMBER, 1862, JUST AFTER THE BLOODIEST DAY OF THE WAR. Erect, to the right of the center, stands Dr. A. Hurd, of the Fourteenth Indiana Volunteers, caring forConfederate wounded near the battlefield of Antietam. Around him the twisted forms of sufferers lieunder temporary coverings, made of blankets or flaps from shelter-tents suspended upon guns for tent-poles. Swords are not yet beaten into plowshares, but bayonets are thrust in
. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . CARING FOR THE ANTIETAM WOUNDED IN SEPTEMBER, 1862, JUST AFTER THE BLOODIEST DAY OF THE WAR. Erect, to the right of the center, stands Dr. A. Hurd, of the Fourteenth Indiana Volunteers, caring forConfederate wounded near the battlefield of Antietam. Around him the twisted forms of sufferers lieunder temporary coverings, made of blankets or flaps from shelter-tents suspended upon guns for tent-poles. Swords are not yet beaten into plowshares, but bayonets are thrust into the ground for the merci-ful purpose of protecting the feverish patients from the burning sun. Use has been made of the hay fromSmiths farm nearby to form soft beds for the wounded limbs. Further shelter has been improvised bylaying fence-rails against supporting poles. Below appear the straw huts for wounded on Smith s farm,erected a day or two later. The surgeon on the field of battle knew neither friend nor foe in his treatmentof the wounded. On June 6, 1862, a week after the battles of Seven Pines or Fair Oaks, a general order wasissued from Washington that surgeons should be considered non-combatants and
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