. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . of Medical Officers of theArmy and Navy of the Confederacy. This series is an inval-uable mine of information, and from it most of the facts givenin the following pages are drawn. It must be remembered, of course, that the men fromA\bom I (luote, whose writings are abstracted, or whose suc-cess is described, were among the most distinguished officersof the service. Added to professional skill they possessed ex-ecutive and administrative ability which would have won su
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . of Medical Officers of theArmy and Navy of the Confederacy. This series is an inval-uable mine of information, and from it most of the facts givenin the following pages are drawn. It must be remembered, of course, that the men fromA\bom I (luote, whose writings are abstracted, or whose suc-cess is described, were among the most distinguished officersof the service. Added to professional skill they possessed ex-ecutive and administrative ability which would have won suc-cess under any circumstances. That all the Confederate hos-l)itals were so successful, either upon the medical or upon theadministrative side, is, of course, improbable. Ihe problem confronting the jNIedical Department andthe manner in which it was met is thus stated by the surgeon-general, Doctor Samuel Preston JNIoore: The only building in Kiclmiond adapted to hospital purposes,the almshouse (a large brick building, well suited, capable of acconnno-dating say five hundred patients), had been converted into a
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