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The A tents were in quite general use by the State and also by the general government the first two years of the war, but, like the Sibley, they required too much wagon transportation to take along for use in the field, and so they also were turned over to camps of instruction and to troops permanently located in or near important military centres or stations.
The Hospital or Wall tent is distinguished from those already described by having four upright sides or walls.
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this fact it probably owes the latter name, and it doubtless gets the former from being used for hospital purposes in the field.
These tents, also, are not of modern origin.
They were certainly used by Napoleon, and probably long before his day. On account of their walls they are much more comfortable and convenient to occupy than the two preceding, as one can stand erect or move about in them with tolerable freedom.
They are made of different sizes.
Those used as field hospitals were quite large, accommodating from six to twenty patients, according to circumstances.
It was a common occurrence to see two or more of these joined, being connected by ripping the central seam in the two ends that came in contact.
By looping back the flaps thus liberated,
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