. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . IRST MEDICAL DIRECTOR FOR GENERAL McCLELLAN Pope, Dr. Dttcruiaii found much difficultyin again organizing it properly. II ■oca■•-ful, however, and the care of the woundeil after Aiitictam marks ■ ifJetlBftadvance on anything before this the first year of the Civil War itbecame evident that many of the forms then in nee, especially the report of aiek and wounde<|, were highly defective and un-satisfactory when applied to the new and broader conditions of
. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . IRST MEDICAL DIRECTOR FOR GENERAL McCLELLAN Pope, Dr. Dttcruiaii found much difficultyin again organizing it properly. II ■oca■•-ful, however, and the care of the woundeil after Aiitictam marks ■ ifJetlBftadvance on anything before this the first year of the Civil War itbecame evident that many of the forms then in nee, especially the report of aiek and wounde<|, were highly defective and un-satisfactory when applied to the new and broader conditions of war; Bad 0B May21, 1S02, measure--, were taken by thesurgi on-general to secure much moredetailed information in regard tocasesof illness and injury, and in respect toother matters of record controlled by themedical department. Some years afterthe Civil War, however, the mass of rec-ords in the surgeon-generals and otheroffices became so great as to bring aboutthe organization of a record division totake them over and provide for their pres-ervation and care. On these records isfounded the national pen-ion system. DR. JONATHAN LETTERMAN WITH HIS STAFFDR. LETTERMAN SUCCEEDED DR. TRIPLER AS MEDICAL DIRECTOR OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, NOVEMBER, 1862 the United States deficient as regards its medical organizationand equipment. At the opening of hostilities between the States the per-sonnel of the Medical Department of the regular army wascomposed of one surgeon-general with the rank of colonel,thirty surgeons with the rank of major, and eighty-four assist-ant surgeons with the rank of first lieutenant for the first fiveyears of service, and thereafter with the rank of captain, un-til promoted to the grade of major. There was no hospitalcorps, but the necessary nursing and other hospital assistancewere performed by soldiers temporarily detailed to hospitalduty from organizations of the line of the army, and here it maybe parenthetically remarked that the qualifications and
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