. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . DOUGLAS BANNON, SURGEONSOF THE NAVY No such losses in killfd and wounded were experienced afloatas in the great battles ashore, yet the naval medical staff, es-pecially on the Mississippi, the James, anil the Potomac, wereoften called upon to cooperate with the army medical staff incaring for the wounded soldiers. There was a surgeon and some-times an assistant surgeon on each ship. Hospital boats hadmedical staffs as large as the hospitals ashore. Beside the RedR
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . DOUGLAS BANNON, SURGEONSOF THE NAVY No such losses in killfd and wounded were experienced afloatas in the great battles ashore, yet the naval medical staff, es-pecially on the Mississippi, the James, anil the Potomac, wereoften called upon to cooperate with the army medical staff incaring for the wounded soldiers. There was a surgeon and some-times an assistant surgeon on each ship. Hospital boats hadmedical staffs as large as the hospitals ashore. Beside the RedRover there was the City of Memphis, which carried 11,024sick and wounded in thirty-three trips up and down the Missis-sippi, and the D. A. January, in charge of Assistant SurgeonA. n. Hoff, wliich transported and cared for 23,738 patientsduring the last three jears of the war. Other boats used ashospital transports were the Empress and the SURGEON BERTHOLET,FLAGSHIP
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