. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . rusive efforts of the surgeons that men and armies arekept in fighting trim and physically able to execute the willof tlie commanders. In any critical inquiry into battles andcampaigns, the careful student will not overlook the fact thatthe conflict under consideration might not have occurred at all,nor in the place where it actually did occur, nor might the mili-tary tactics have been the same, had not one or the other forcebeen weakened by preventable diseases or re
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . rusive efforts of the surgeons that men and armies arekept in fighting trim and physically able to execute the willof tlie commanders. In any critical inquiry into battles andcampaigns, the careful student will not overlook the fact thatthe conflict under consideration might not have occurred at all,nor in the place where it actually did occur, nor might the mili-tary tactics have been the same, had not one or the other forcebeen weakened by preventable diseases or rendered more or lessimmobile by the crippling incubus of the wounded, for whoseremoval and care no adequate provision had been made beforethe conflict occurred. At the outbreak of the war, the national army was inade-quate to meet military needs, especially those relating to thecritical Indian situations west of the Mississippi, which hadbeen developed in large part by the influx of gold-seekers andcolonizers into that territory. It is not to be wondered at, then,that the war should have found the military establishment of. Dr. Charles S. Triplcr was General Mc-< lellans first medical director. Altliinif;lilie had aoeimiijlishod an immense anioimtof work, his machinery was not flexiljleenough to care for 100,000 men, and dur-infj the Peninsula campaign there wasmuch confusion and an immense amonntof suffering. Hut for the Sanitary Com-mission, which hail charge of the hospital-boats near White House Landing and whichcared for many thousands wounded andcarried away hundreds, the distress mighthave been much greater. Dr. JonathanLetternuin became medical director ofthe Army of the Potomac July 1, ISOi,succeeding Dr. Tri|)ler. Dr. Lcttermanwas a man of great aljility, he organizedthe ambulance corps, imprtived the fiehl-hospital serNdce, and instituted a methodof furnishing medical supplies by brigadesinstead of by regiments. Many of hisinnovations continued throughout thewar. A
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