. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . banks of the Rappahannock to which wounded have been conveyed after the slaughter in theWilderness. Grant had attempted to oust the Army of Northern Virginia from its position by a flank movement on succeeded in anticipating the movement, and once again Grant hurled the long-suffering Army of the Potomac upon the unbrokengray lines of the Army of Northern Virginia. Two assaults were made on the evening of May 11th, but the position could not becarried even at a loss of five or six thousand men. The neighboring buil
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . banks of the Rappahannock to which wounded have been conveyed after the slaughter in theWilderness. Grant had attempted to oust the Army of Northern Virginia from its position by a flank movement on succeeded in anticipating the movement, and once again Grant hurled the long-suffering Army of the Potomac upon the unbrokengray lines of the Army of Northern Virginia. Two assaults were made on the evening of May 11th, but the position could not becarried even at a loss of five or six thousand men. The neighboring buildings were filled with the Federal and Confederate the factory above are the tents of a division hospital corps which have been found inadequate to care for so many can be seen on every floor of the big structure. The hospital orderlies are hurrying about. At first tentage was not used bythese field hospitals, but they were established in any existing buildings, such as churches, mills, and dwelling-houses. These, naturally,[270]. A WAREHOUSE USED AS A HOSPITAL AFTER SPOTSYLVANIA, MAY, 1864 were not always convenient, but the first tent hospital was not used until the battle of Shiloh, April, 1862. The value of such shelteron this occasion was so manifest that hospital tents were soon after issued and ultimately used with troops almost exclusively in cam-paign as well as in periods of inactivity. These division or field hospitals, as finally developed in the war, proved to be thoroughlypracticable and of the greatest value to the wounded in battle, while in camp they were set up and acted as temporary receiving hospitalsto which sick were sent for more extended treatment or to determine the necessity for their removal to the fixed hospitals in the in resources, they cared for wounded by the hundreds; always in hand and mobile, they could be sent forward without unduedelay to where the needs of battle demanded and wheeled vehicles could pen
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