. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . k Swamp,leaving only the brave medical officers behind, doing what they could to relieve the sufferings of the menthat had to be abandoned. Here we see them at work upon the wounded, who have been gathered fromthe field. Nothing but the strict arrest of the stern sergeant Death can save these men from cajiture, andwhen the Confederates occupied Savages Station on the morning of June .50th, twenty-five hundred sickand wounded men and their medical attendants became pri
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . k Swamp,leaving only the brave medical officers behind, doing what they could to relieve the sufferings of the menthat had to be abandoned. Here we see them at work upon the wounded, who have been gathered fromthe field. Nothing but the strict arrest of the stern sergeant Death can save these men from cajiture, andwhen the Confederates occupied Savages Station on the morning of June .50th, twenty-five hundred sickand wounded men and their medical attendants became prisoners of war. The Confederate hospital facil-ities were already taxed to their full capacity in caring for Lees wounded, and most of these men wereconfronted on that day with the prospect of lingering for months in the military prisons of the South. Thebrave .soldiers lying helpless here were wounded at Gaines Mill on June 27th and removed to the greatfield-hospital established at Savages Station. The photograph was taken just before Sumner and Franklinwithdrew the rear-guard of their columns on the morning of June runt lags—cUlii? (EauMi^ratr (Eapilal ^nxtth ^ -■} / ^
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