. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . FEDERAL WOUNDED ON MARYES HEIGHTS the wound probed by instruments which were never sterilized and usually remained continuing sources ofinfection. The wound was usually protected by dressings of lint, the scrapings of which from cotton clothby hand rendered its infection certain. Cloth or cotton compresses dipped in cold water were often used Some surgeons used ointments spread on muslin. Flaxseed or bread poultices were often em-ployed. In fact nearly e
. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . FEDERAL WOUNDED ON MARYES HEIGHTS the wound probed by instruments which were never sterilized and usually remained continuing sources ofinfection. The wound was usually protected by dressings of lint, the scrapings of which from cotton clothby hand rendered its infection certain. Cloth or cotton compresses dipped in cold water were often used Some surgeons used ointments spread on muslin. Flaxseed or bread poultices were often em-ployed. In fact nearly every measure taken for the relief of the wounded was. through the irony of Fateand ignorance of infection, largely contributory in increasing the very suffering it was desired to RED MEN WHO SUFFERED IN SILENCE In modern warfare the American Indian seems somehow to be entirely out of place. We think of him with the tomahawk and sealping-knife anil have difficulty in conceiving him in the ranks, drilling, doing police duty, and so on. Yet more than three thousand Indianswere enlisted in the Federal army. The Confederates enlisted many more in Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas. In the Federal armythe red men were used as advance sharpshooters and rendered meritorious service. This photograph shows some of the woundedIndian sharpshooters on Maryes Heights after the second battle of Fredericksburg. A hospital orderly is attending to the wantsof the one on the left-hand page, and the wounds of the others have been dressed. In the entry of John L. Maryes handsome mansionclose by lay a group of four Indian sharpshooters, each with the loss of a limb—of an arm at the shoulder, of a leg at the knee, or withan amputation at the thigh. They neither spoke nor moaned, but su
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