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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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a surgeon with the necessary assistants. These divisions were
arranged, as far as possible, upon the basis of States. So far
as possible troops from the same State were assigned to one
division, and were attended by surgeons and attendants from
that State.
The celebrated farm, " Tree Hill," was loaned to the hos-
pital by Mr. Franklin Stearns, and afforded pasturage for a
large number of cows and several hundred goats. The meat
of young kids was found to be much relished by the soldiers.
" The hospital trading canal-boat, Chimhorazo, with Lawrence
Lotier in command, plied between Richmond, Lynchburg, and
Lexington, bartering cotton yarn and shoes for provisions.
This was only one of the hospitals many resources." An ad-
ditional fact is that the hospital never drew fifty dollars from
the Confederate States Government but relied solely upon the
money received from commutation of rations.

The total number of patients received and treated at Chimhorazo
Hospital amounted to seventy-six thousand (out of this number about
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OFFICERS AND NURSES AT SEMINARY HOSPITAL, GEORGETOWN, APRIL 1, 1865
The two neat nurses in the window, with their old-fashioned black mittens, may be held responsible for the
bird-cage hanging by the door. Neither they nor the chubby little boy sitting on the sidewalk in the fore-
ground suggest war; yet this is a scene of April, 1865, before Lee's surrender. It is well-nigh impossible
for a man surrounded by the sights and sounds and scents of every-day civilian life to realize what a touch
of femininity meant to a sick soldier far from home after four years of rough campaigning. A chaplain
was attached to most of these hospitals; his duties, besides those of a spiritual nature, having to do with
correspondence with friends and relatives, supervision over the postal service, reading-room, library, amuse-
ments, etc. There was often much trouble in securing adequate nursing attendance, both in respect to the
number and character of the personnel. There were female nurses at many hospitals; some were Sisters

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