Hospital Transports
by Frederick Law Olmsted
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About this eBook
- Author
- Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903
- Title
- Hospital transports : A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded from the peninsula of Virginia in the summer of 1862
- Credits
- Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- E456: History: America: Civil War period (1861-1865)
- Subject
- Peninsular Campaign, 1862
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 52122
- Release Date
- May 22, 2016
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Hospital Transports. A MEMOIR of the Embarkation of the Sick and Wounded from the Peninsula of Virginia in the Summer of 1862 .
- 2.DEDICATION. To the Memories of — J. M. GRYMES, M. D., — WILLIAM PLATT, Junior, Esq. , — Lieut.-Col. JOSEPH BRIDGHAM CURTIS, U.S.V., — RUDD C. HOPKINS, M. D., — MRS. FANNY SWAN WARRINER, — DAVID BOSWELL REID, M. D., — Surgeon ROBERT WARE, U. S. V.,
- 3.Introduction.
- 4.TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 5.CHAPTER I.
- 6.CHAPTER II.
- 7.CHAPTER III.
- 8.CHAPTER IV.
- 9.CHAPTER V.
- 10.CHAPTER VI.
- 11.APPENDIX A.
- 12.APPENDIX B. — Terms of Service. — Administration. — Wards. — Surgeons. — Assistants to Surgeons. — Nurses. — Dispensary. — Hospital Pantry and Linen Closet. — Watches. — Time of Meals. — House Diet. — Special Diet. — Surgeons' Rounds. — All Hands. — Receiving and Distributing Patients. — SANITARY COMMISSION.
- 13.APPENDIX C. — Copy of Letter to the Medical Director of the Army of the Potomac. — Copy of a Letter to the Surgeon-General. — Memorandum of Arrangements proposed by the Secretary of the Commission, to prevent a recurrence of the confusion in the Transport Service which occurred after the Battle of Fair Oaks. — Sea Steamers, fitted for long passages outside. — Coast-Steamers, which must make a harbor on the approach of bad weather, and which should not be sent beyond Philadelphia, unless the necessity is urgent. — Coast-Steamers which should not be run outside. — Sailing vessels adapted to be used as Stationary Hospitals, or to be towed outside. — Plan for the Disposition of Patients to be sent in Hospital Transports from White House.
- 14.APPENDIX D.
- 15.TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
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