. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ome-what malarious countiy soon brought on an amoinit of sick-ness with which the Governmental agencies were unable to the approval of the medical bureau, the commission ap-2)lied for the use of a number of transports, then lying Secretary of War ordered boats with a capacity of onethousand jiersons to be detailed to the commission, which inturn agreed to take care of that number of sick and Daniel Webster, assigned to the commission Apr
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ome-what malarious countiy soon brought on an amoinit of sick-ness with which the Governmental agencies were unable to the approval of the medical bureau, the commission ap-2)lied for the use of a number of transports, then lying Secretary of War ordered boats with a capacity of onethousand jiersons to be detailed to the commission, which inturn agreed to take care of that number of sick and Daniel Webster, assigned to the commission April ,18()2, was refitted as a hospital and reached the York River onApril 3()th, with the general secretary, ISIr. Olmsted, and anumber of surgeons and nurses. Other shi2)s were detailed, though great inconvenience wassuffered from the fact that several were recalled to the trans-port service, even when they had a load of sick and wounded,who, of course, had to be transferred at the cost, sometimes, ofconsiderable suffering. At the same time, agents of the com-mission were near the front with the soldiers, offering such.
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