. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . d trained organizations resulted in a vast amountof suffering during the first eighteen months of the war, andgave rise to much criticism of the JNIedical Department whichthe latter in nowise deserved. A carefully matured plan for the organization of a hos-pital corps, to belong to the jNIedical Department and takeover work which was at that time being inefficiently done bysome sixteen thousand enlisted men detailed from the line of thearmy, was submitted to the Secre
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . d trained organizations resulted in a vast amountof suffering during the first eighteen months of the war, andgave rise to much criticism of the JNIedical Department whichthe latter in nowise deserved. A carefully matured plan for the organization of a hos-pital corps, to belong to the jNIedical Department and takeover work which was at that time being inefficiently done bysome sixteen thousand enlisted men detailed from the line of thearmy, was submitted to the Secretary of War on August 21,18(52, but failed of adoption as a result of the opposition ofGeneral Halleck, general-in-chief. An apj)eal was then made as follows: Surgeon-Generals Office, September 7, Edwin M. Stanton,Secretary of : I liave the honor to ask your attention to the frightful state ofdisorder existing in the arrangement for removing the wounded fromtlie field of battle. The scarcity of ambulances, the want of organization,the drunkenness and incompetency of the drivers, the total absence of [304]. v c A « J cj a o o do .2 1 2 S 3 hr o c i: C; 5 rt »2 ^ -_, 1* tt — *- ^ rt o ^ .~ rt 1 >. 0/ — ~c t-< ii. c 2 *< o tt ■^ *3 ^ o « f^ « V ■< o 2 t o ^ w c HH c s- n it: ~ ^ = —) bfi C ,- i - ,::; o 7. rt ^u _C 5 = fl to c 3, 4-1 o s tft g I (-1 o CI .2 -3 /, « ^ a ^ a- J X _^ C3 m >■ vs Ti ^ tii Z c: OJ ■--> .£ .s o d P3 c rt J2 w rto o^ ^ a N dis o 0^ £ c. ^ -) & ^ ij hi^ b. o c c ^ t- o o a >i ^ d J3 .— 13 C o c X L. &c >^ ■^ [5 rt .£ HH in c 0 J :, .— -^ c -) == ■^ 1 1- c t 5 QJ eS d 3 C3 CJ do 0; S a J2 be M ^ ;j -S; E ►J 3 d5 .!2 o £c a d .2 ? H S 4-> t §i T3 le d s a> !i -■ti s -a S cu c3 1 c 3 ■d 0 o< d d t;2 o « X d o d i o ^ o d c ^ en tH o C (- OJ .£ k i Vi S o o d d « TS < cS 5= p 4) ^ c c —i tJD 0 .2 d ^ d «
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