. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . wohundred persons were blown up on the day of evacuation, February 17, moved on through North Carolina and fought his last battle at Benton-ville, where the National loss was 1,604 >™n and the Confederate loss 2, these last days of the war occurred a disaster on the Mississippi Sultana was on her journey from New Orleans to St. Louis, receiving onboard 1,964 Union prisoners from Columbia, Salisbury, Andersonville and otherConfederate prisons. Anxious to proceed North
. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . wohundred persons were blown up on the day of evacuation, February 17, moved on through North Carolina and fought his last battle at Benton-ville, where the National loss was 1,604 >™n and the Confederate loss 2, these last days of the war occurred a disaster on the Mississippi Sultana was on her journey from New Orleans to St. Louis, receiving onboard 1,964 Union prisoners from Columbia, Salisbury, Andersonville and otherConfederate prisons. Anxious to proceed North, little heed was given that theship was already carrying a heavy load of passengers on board, occupying everyfoot of available space on all the decks to the tops of the cabins and the wheel-house, and on the twenty-seventh of April, when about eight miles aboveMemphis, one of her boilers blew up. The dead at the scene numbered 1,500. RUINS OF DEPOT WHERE TWO HUNDRED PERSONSWERE BLOWN UP ON EVACUATION OF CHARLESTON RUINS OF SECESSION HALL AT CHARLESTON AFTERSURRENDER, FEBRUARY 18, 1865. STEAMER SULTANA CONVEYING EXCHANGED UNION PRISONERS DESTROYED IN MISSISSIPPI RIVER IN 1865 (105) IN the hospitals of the army dur-ing the Civil War 6,049,648cases were treated by the offi-cers of the Medical medical skill of the surgeons andphysicians is evidenced by the factthat only 185,353 of these patientsdied during their detention in the hos-pitals. While a large number ofthese soldiers suffered from gunshotwounds, the disease of chronic diar-rhoea was nearly as fatal, and itsdeadlincss was closely followed bythe ravages of typhoid fever and lungdiseases. It is estimated that 285,245men were discharged during the warfor disability. A tribute should bepaid to the nobility of the hospitalcorps. Many noble men and womendid great service to their country inrelieving the sufferings that followedthe battles. After many of the terri-fic conflicts the ground was strewnwith the dea
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