Book/Printed Material Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded from the peninsula of Virginia in the summer of 1862
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Image 1 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded …- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 3 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded …- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 6 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded …- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 7 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … H OSPITAL T RANSPORTS. A MEMOIR of the Embarkation of the Sick and Wounded FROM THE Peninsula of Virginia IN THE Summer of 1862. Compiled and Published at the reqtiest of the…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 8 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … Ctf^^ 2 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by TICKNOR AND FIELDS, in the Clerk s Office of the District Court for the District of Massa- chusetts. University…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 9 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … DEDICA TION, To THE Memories of J. M. GRYMES, M. D., sometime Surgeon in charge of the Hospital Transport Daniel Webste7\ and, at the time of his death, Surgeon to the temporary…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 10 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … iv Dedication. and who died in its service, while on the river passage from Memphis to Cincinnati MRS. FANNY SWAN WARRINER, who bore heroically to the end a woman s part in…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 11 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … I NTRODUCTION. I ^HE Sanitary Commission, grateful for JL the generous confidence reposed in it by the public, would be glad to meet and justify that confidence by a circumstantial account of…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 12 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … vi Introduction. vice inspires in those devoted to it, lightens what might, under other circumstances, seem wearisome duties but a minute de- scription of the ceaseless round of con- sultations, examinations, correspondence,…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 13 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … Introduction. vii measure, the Commission has caused to be placed in the hands of a manager of the Woman s Central Army Relief Associa- tion of New York, a quantity of letters…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 14 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … viii Introduction. For the style of the letters quoted, this only need be said they were, for the most part, addressed to intimate friends, with no thought that they could ever go…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 15 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … Introduction, ix count is not intended to be complete in any respect, and that no attempt has been made to give pubhc credit to individuals for their services, whatever these may have…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 16 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … X Introduction. edness, pliability, and practical talent with which they generally met this responsi- bility was too remarkable to be passed without at least this simple reference to it as one of…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 17 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … Iiitroditction, xi fought for us in the Peninsula, men who, though perhaps but green soldiers in the field, proved, one and all, heroes upon the bed of pain and in the hour…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 18 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … xii Introductioit. leaders, and we accept what they have the abihty to give us. It is enough that in this nation, standing firmly upon its decla- ration of equal rights to all,…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 19 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … Introduction. xili war from the high banks of the Potomac to a low and swampy region, intersected with a net-work of rivers and creeks, early in the summer of 1862, required appli-…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 20 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … xiv Introduction. The only vessel then lying at Alexan- dria stanch enough for the ocean passage from Virginia to New York or Boston, proved to be the Daniel Webster, an old Pacific…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 21 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … Hospital Transports.- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 22 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded …- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 23 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … Hospital Transports. CHAPTER I. 4 Hospital Transport Daniel Wehsier^ Cheeseman s Creek, April 30, 1862. I RECEIVED General Meigs s order under which this ship came into our hands on Friday. She…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 24 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … 1 8 Hospital Transports. We had six medical students, twenty men nurses (volunteers all), four surgeons, four la- dies, a dozen contrabands (field hands), three carpenters, and half a dozen miscellaneous pas-…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 25 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … Hospital Transports, 19 the engine-room section, so as to get a thorough draft from stem to stem then set to fitting and furnishing new bunks started a new house on deck, for^vard…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 26 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … 20 Hospital Transports, of the cabin, that I could see neither eyes nor teeth. But they sung heartily, and everybody followed them. (A.) CheesemarHs Creek. I went ashore to report our arrival…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 27 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … Hospital Transports, 21 in the day before, and, of course, well-guarded. Ordnance and forage barges lay along the shore, with a few big guns, and piles of shot and shell, just landed.…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 28 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … 2 2 Hospital Transports. airy exercising then a cavalry camp, then a bit of wood, then rising dry ground, and our road ran through more camps. Then, coming in the midst of…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 29 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … Hospital Transports. 23 Director, and just then there came another of those crashing reports. They have been keep- ing that up all night/ said the Doctor. That is n t the enemy…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 30 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … 24 Hospital Transports. earthworks, which are rained on half the time and fiercely shone on the other half, and from which are exhaling deadly vapors all the time, a death-place for scores…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 31 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … Hospital Transports. 25 for special supplies received Dr. Tripler, who dined with us furnished ^nne, tea, bread, to a surgeon who had been told that the Commis- sion s flag was fl}ing…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 32 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … 26 Hospital Transports. ninety patients have now come on board eigh- teen miles some of them say they have been brought in the ambulances (large statement of exhausted fellows jolted over corduroy…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 33 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … Hospital Transports. 27 quietly. As the prayer for the dying was fin- ished, a soldier close by the Doctor had ended his strife. After t^velve, our watch came on, and till four…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 34 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … 28 Hospital Transports. surrendered quietly, and round the comer from us Fort Macon had been taken. What was it all to us, so long as the beef-tea was ready at the right…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 35 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … CHAPTER II. (A.) May ^th. On Sunday the Ocean Queen, coming up from Old Pointy grounded about five miles off the harbor, and I went do^vn and put a few beds and…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 36 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … 30 Hospital Transports. (A.) I had sent the Webster to sea, and with Mrs. and sister, B., and some two or three others, started in the Small to go to the tele-…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 37 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … Hospital Transports. 31 biggest ship of all, in the advance, only one gunboat, as a picket-guard, being above us. I went ashore with the Captain and the young men, but could find…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 38 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … 32 Hospital Transports. the Ocean Queen^ and put them upon her. I protested. The Quee?i at present was a mere hulk, without beds, bedding, or food even for her crew, and without…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 39 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … Hospital Transports, 33 who could walk of the patients had been taken on board. The glorious women had hunted out a barrel containing some Indian meal from some dark place where it…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 40 of Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded … 34 Hospital Transports. found a rebel cow at pasture, shot her, and brought off the beef, with another surgeon. By- ten o clock at night, every sick man was in a warm…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863