. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . 864 A few of the convalescent soldiers in this photograph have been set to work, but the majority are idly recuperating. These eastwards are much less attractive than those shown below, around headquarters. The buildings were poorly ventilated and poorlydrained, and in wet weather stood in a sea of mud. The death-rate here was higher than at most hospitals or prisons. This was partlydue to the fact that unoccupied soldiers are far more liable to disease than the soldier at work. These convalescent or parole campsmade more trouble f
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . 864 A few of the convalescent soldiers in this photograph have been set to work, but the majority are idly recuperating. These eastwards are much less attractive than those shown below, around headquarters. The buildings were poorly ventilated and poorlydrained, and in wet weather stood in a sea of mud. The death-rate here was higher than at most hospitals or prisons. This was partlydue to the fact that unoccupied soldiers are far more liable to disease than the soldier at work. These convalescent or parole campsmade more trouble for the officers than did those of the active soldiers. Camp Misery was the title at first bestowed by the sol-diers on this particular camp at Alexandria, Va. At first it consisted only of tents, and was badly managed; but later it wasentirely reorganized, barracks were built, and Miss Amy Bradley of the Sanitary Commission did much to improve different types of ambulance stand before headquarters, as well as the old-fashioned family CONVALESCENT CAMP AT ALEXANDRIA expenditure Mas not to be considered urgent. The great un-dertaking was to find the materials needed. At Chattanooga, Doctor Stout caused hospitals to he con-structed upon an entirely new plan, which he maintained wasfar superior to that followed in the building of the CbimborazoHospital, and which was evidently an imitation of themodels of such buildings long in use in the Federal objections to the plan of Cbimborazo were that its widthafforded space for more than two rows of bunks and that,when windows and doors were necessarily closed on accountof the weather, ventilation through the roof was not thus describes the new plan: The pavilion wards erected under my direction, were of such widththat only two rows of bunks could be arranged or accommodated inthem. The bunks were placed crosswise of the room, the head of eachbeing from one and a half to two feet from the
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