. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE BOATS THAT BROUGHT .MEDICAL SUPPLIES—APPOMATTOX RIVER, 1864 The upper photograph was taken about a mile above City Point. The supply-boat Planter, a familiar sight to soldiers, is lying at alittle pier formed by a section of a pontoon-bridge. The lower left-hand photograph shows the Planter and more of the fleet in theservice of the medical department. At the lower right-hand can be seen the steamer Connecticut, considered a crack boat in LongIsland Sound navigation preceding the war. During part of the war she was used as an a
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE BOATS THAT BROUGHT .MEDICAL SUPPLIES—APPOMATTOX RIVER, 1864 The upper photograph was taken about a mile above City Point. The supply-boat Planter, a familiar sight to soldiers, is lying at alittle pier formed by a section of a pontoon-bridge. The lower left-hand photograph shows the Planter and more of the fleet in theservice of the medical department. At the lower right-hand can be seen the steamer Connecticut, considered a crack boat in LongIsland Sound navigation preceding the war. During part of the war she was used as an army transport on account of her quantities of supplies were shipped to the armies investing Petersburg, and the sight of these vessels gladdened the eyes ofmany a poor fellow in desperate need of what they brought, or waiting to be transported to the big hospitals or furloughed THE BARGE AT THE MEDICAL LANDING [h-15] THE COXXECTICUT, EROM LONG ISLAND SOLND of war. Such was not the case in the first year of the CivilWar, when surgeons were captured and immured in militaryprisons like combatant officers. Medical officers were thusoften forced to make the hard choice of deserting the woundedunder their care, often including patients from both sides whowere urgently requiring attention, or of remaining and submit-ting to capture, with all the rigors and sufferings that this im-plied. But General Jackson, after the battle of Winchester, inMay, 1862, where he had captured the Federal division hospitals,took the ground that as the surgeons did not make war theyshould not suffer its penalties, and returned them uncondition-ally to their own forces. The neutral status of the surgeons,thus recognized for the first time, was subsequently formallyagreed upon between Generals McClellan and Lee, thoughlater the agreement was for a time interrupted. The idea thatthose enga
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