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Alexandria (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
peake hospital, Hampton, Virginia Mansion house hospital, Alexandria, Virginia U. S. Marine hospital, Evansville, Indiana Churchesrch, episcopal Private residences used as hospitals, Alexandria, Virginia. Prince street, West of Columbus, capacity 95 Corcing at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, from their wounds received on the Red River and Port Hudson expeditions, and below is Smith's farm near Keedycing at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, from their wounds received on the Red River and Port Hudson expeditions After Antietam—army surgeons, huts,e at first bestowed by the soldiers on this particular Camp at Alexandria, Va. At first it consisted only of tents, and was badly managed; bun an important factor in their success. Soldiers' rest, Alexandria, Virginia Wounded soldiers inside the home The home of the sanitarwere about forty of these lodges. The convalescent camp, at Alexandria, Virginia, intended for the care of those soldiers discharged from the
Cincinnati (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
attlefields of Franklin and Nashville, assisted by nine other Confederate surgeons and assistant surgeons. On January 10, 1865, all the Confederate surgeons in Nashville were relieved by Federal surgeons, and we were sent by way of Louisville, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Fortress Monroe, and City Point to Richmond, reaching the capital, January 28th. Remaining three days in Richmond, I visited every morning some part of Chimborazo Hospital, and other hospitals in the city of New York was the first one recognized, though the branch in northern Ohio was the first association of women organized. The chief branches in the East were those in New York, Boston, Buffalo, and Philadelphia. There were other branches at Cincinnati, Louisville, Chicago, Troy, Detroit, and elsewhere. Far-off California sent a large contribution in money. These branches were best able to deal with local conditions, as through them were collected such diverse articles as quilts, blankets,
Danville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
to General Beauregard as medical director of the (Confederate) Army of the Potomac. He continued to hold this same position after General Joseph E. Johnston took command of the army. When General Johnston was wounded at the battle of Seven Pines, General Lee succeeded to the command. His medical director ranked Dr. Williams in the old army and therefore relieved him. Dr. Williams was afterward appointed medical director and inspector of hospitals in Virginia, and made his headquarters in Danville. He established nearly all the large hospitals in Virginia except at Richmond and Petersburg, and after a few months he was transferred to Richmond and put in charge of the Medical Purveyors' Department, in which position he remained active till the end of the war. old disused pirogue, or dugout, with the front end partly knocked out. It was almost useless, but by loading only in the rear end he found the front would ride high enough to clear the water. He accordingly waited until ni
Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
fter the siege of Yorktown, the house which had been used as headquarters by General Cornwallis during the War of the Revolution was used as a hospital. It was placed in charge of Mrs. John A. Dix, the wife of General Dix, then stationed at Fortress Monroe. Mrs. Dix was an enthusiastic Union woman who left her palatial home in New York to give her services to the suffering and wounded soldiers. The bricks of which this building was built were brought over from England. The hospital establishnine other Confederate surgeons and assistant surgeons. On January 10, 1865, all the Confederate surgeons in Nashville were relieved by Federal surgeons, and we were sent by way of Louisville, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Fortress Monroe, and City Point to Richmond, reaching the capital, January 28th. Remaining three days in Richmond, I visited every morning some part of Chimborazo Hospital, and other hospitals in the city. Leaving the capital, I went to Montgomery, Alab
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
Federal hospitals in the Carolinas Federal hospitals in the Carolinas—no. 15 at Beaufort, South Carolina, December, 1864 convalescents on the porch, staff and fire department in front Hospital of the ninth Vermont at new Berne, North Carolina Nothing in the nature of antiseptics was provided. The cleanliness of wounds, except in respect to the gross forms of foreign matter, was regarded as of little or no importance. Even the dressings carried into action were few and scanty; w field and hospital service as old indig., was used as a substitute for quinine in malarial fevers, a compound tincture of willow, dogwood, and yellow-poplar barks. Efforts were made to cultivate the poppy (Papaver somniferum) in Florida and North Carolina, and the unripe seed-capsules, when incised, yielded or exuded a dark gum, not unlike Turkish opium in its effects. Decoctions and tinctures of Jamestown or common jimson-weed, leaves and seeds (Stramonium), and may pop root (Passiflora inca
Lookout Mountain, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
ster, and it was therefore possible to find the whereabouts or the fate of any patient in a few seconds. In addition to the general hospitals established for the treatment of patients until they were convalescent, wayside hospitals were established at every important junction-point. A Federal officer wounded at pine mountain, Georgia—August, 1864 This unusual photograph of an officer still on crutches, emaciated and suffering, was taken in August, 1864, near Pulpit Rock, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. It is reproduced here through the courtesy of the officer himself—Major (later Colonel) L. R. Stegman, associated with the editors in the preparation of this work. In June, 1864, during Sherman's march to Atlanta, he was shot in the thigh, the shot fracturing the bone. Major Stegman was in command of the Hundred and Second New York, which was attached to the twentieth corps of the Army of the Cumberland. A wound of this character disabled the victim for many months. Colonel
Montgomery (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
ortress Monroe, and City Point to Richmond, reaching the capital, January 28th. Remaining three days in Richmond, I visited every morning some part of Chimborazo Hospital, and other hospitals in the city. Leaving the capital, I went to Montgomery, Alabama, having thirty days leave, and while waiting for the Army of Tennessee en route to the Carolinas, frequently visited a hospital there in charge of Doctor John Scott, an Englishman. He had been commissioned surgeon in 1861, assigned to duty at Pensacola until it was evacuated, and subsequently was stationed in Montgomery. The hospital was in a large Army doctors in the field. Dr. Irwine is seen seated to the right of the tent pole, while the assistant surgeon faces him on the left. The quarters of a regimental surgeon were generally established on the line of the officers' tents, and he was usually open to calls at all hours. If he was a strict disciplinarian, he would only attend what was termed the doctor's call on
Chattanooga (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
the other half of the regimental medical officers went with their commands to the vicinity of Chattanooga. Having accompanied my regiment on its advance movement, about fifteen days after the battle practical experience, during the Dalton-Atlanta campaign, the various hospitals organized at Chattanooga had The feminine touch at the hospital The touch of a woman's hands came to have a hus made inured to the benefit of the hospital fund. He even went so far as to purchase at Chattanooga a printing outfit on which the numerous blanks needed for the use of the various hospitals wes not to be considered urgent. The great undertaking was to find the materials needed. At Chattanooga, Doctor Stout caused hospitals to be constructed upon an entirely new plan, which he maintaint, serving first at Memphis, then at Belmont, Bowling Green, Nashville, Atlanta, Corinth, and Chattanooga. Nor must the work of the Roman Catholic sisterhoods be neglected. The nursing in some of
Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
and consuming medical and other official records. in the conflagration in the city of Richmond, Virginia, on the night of April 2, 1865, on its occupation by the Federal army, two houses with theenous resources to be found in our hills and dales, fields and forests, mountains and Richmond City hospitals. Richmond, like Washington and Alexandria, became a collection of hospitals dursacrificing women of the South. The Richmond city hospital The Chimborazo hospital, Richmond, Virginia valleys. There were probably at least three laboratories for the preparation of indigenn, ninth corps, in front of Petersburg, 1864 Part of the General hospital at City Point—the James river in the distance Doctor John R. Gildersleeve, when president of the Association of Medicaalmost the universal custom of private families taking convalescent soldiers to their homes. In Richmond, the so-called ambulance committee was very efficient in proportion to its scanty means, but
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
ntietam Surgeons and hospital stewards in Washington the Mercurian double-snake on the sleeve ide charge of the Medical Museum and Library in Washington until his retirement from the service in Oct in the shadow of the dome of the Capitol at Washington and in other Northern cities, worn through t officers' quarters, Harewood hospital, near Washington Louisa M. Alcott, the author of little womnce United States ambulance repair shop at Washington the front or rear. If the ambulance train of the United States Christian commission in Washington. Though not so well known as the Sanitary. The plan at first met with little favor at Washington. The medical corps was indifferent, if not e home The home of the sanitary commission—Washington while Dr. Bellows naturally became presideeen scattered, and the men came pouring into Washington, separated from their officers and surgeons,ments or special bureaus were established at Washington, New York, Louisville, New Orleans, Baltimor[21 more...]
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