. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . )uttk had been fought. An insensible soldier passed over for dead by the ambulance corps, or lying unseenin a thicket, might recover consciousness to be tortured with thirst and driven frantic with the fear thathe would be permanently forgotten and left there to die. Incongruous, but of interest to posterity, is thephotographers tripod on the right of the picture in front of the wounded lying in the shade of the house. f=^t^ I i. IN THE WAKE OF GRANTS ADVANCE This pic
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . )uttk had been fought. An insensible soldier passed over for dead by the ambulance corps, or lying unseenin a thicket, might recover consciousness to be tortured with thirst and driven frantic with the fear thathe would be permanently forgotten and left there to die. Incongruous, but of interest to posterity, is thephotographers tripod on the right of the picture in front of the wounded lying in the shade of the house. f=^t^ I i. IN THE WAKE OF GRANTS ADVANCE This picture shows a warchousf on the banks of the Rappaliannock to «liich wiinn(hut the position ((luld not l)ocarried even at a loss of five or six thousand men. The neighboring buildings were filled with the Federal and Confederate the factory above are the tents of a division hospital corps which have been found inadequate to care for so many wounde< can be seen on every floor of the big structure. The hospital orderlies are hurrying about. At first tentage was not used bythese field hospitals, but they were established in
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