Surgeons of the navy
No such losses in killed and wounded were experienced afloat as in the great battles ashore, yet the naval medical staff, especially on the
Mississippi, the
James, and the
Potomac, were often called upon to cooperate with the army medical staff in caring for the wounded soldiers.
There was a surgeon and sometimes an assistant surgeon on each ship.
Hospital boats had medical staffs as large as the hospitals ashore.
Beside the
Red Rover there was the
City of Memphis, which carried 11,024 sick and wounded in thirty-three trips up and down the
Mississippi, and the
D. A. January, in charge of
Assistant Surgeon A. H. Hoff, which transported and cared for 23,738 patients during the last three years of the war. Other boats used as hospital transports were the
Empress and the
Imperial.
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Medical staff of the red rover |
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