. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . •1 V OF REVIEWS CO. AMBULANCE CORPS OF THE FIFTY-SEVENTH NEW YORK INFANTRY rocking motion proved a torment to sufferers. Several four-wheeled ambulances appear, however, and later in the war the two-wheeled ambulances were entirely superseded. The long lines of infantry drawn up in battle array in the background are ready torepel any further assaults while the wounded are being removed on the litters. The one in the foreground (on the left) exhibits adevice to elevate the patients limbs. The medical officer is gazing anxiously at t
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . •1 V OF REVIEWS CO. AMBULANCE CORPS OF THE FIFTY-SEVENTH NEW YORK INFANTRY rocking motion proved a torment to sufferers. Several four-wheeled ambulances appear, however, and later in the war the two-wheeled ambulances were entirely superseded. The long lines of infantry drawn up in battle array in the background are ready torepel any further assaults while the wounded are being removed on the litters. The one in the foreground (on the left) exhibits adevice to elevate the patients limbs. The medical officer is gazing anxiously at the wounded soldier, and an orderly is hurrying overwith some bandaging. Directly behind the orderly, bearers are lifting another sufferer on a litter into the four-wheeled A FEW OF THE WOUNDED AT GETTYSBURG To these rough tents, erected by the Second Federal Army Corps, the wounded have been rushed during the second and third daysof the mightiest of all American battles, just decided at a cost of G,6G4 dead and 27,206 wounded. Accommodations are simple. Butcups hang at the front of the foremost tent wherewith to slake the sufferers thirst, and at least one woman nurse is present to soothetheir fevered brows with the touch of her cool hands. By this time the ambulance organization of the Union armies had been per-fected. Such was the efficiency of its administration that on the early morning of the 4th of July, , the day after the battle, notone wounded soldier of the thousands who had fallen was left on the field. The inspector-general of the army himself reported this[ 300 ]
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