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Hospital transports : $b A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded from the peninsula of Virginia in the summer of 1862Olmsted, Frederick Law

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Hospital transports : $b A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded from the peninsula of Virginia in the summer of 1862

Name: Hospital transports : $b A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded from the peninsula of Virginia in the summer of 1862
Author: Olmsted, Frederick Law

Olmsted, Frederick Law

Hospital ships -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Hospital ships -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century; Medical personnel -- United States -- Correspondence; Peninsular Campaign, 1862; Transports -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Transports -- Virginia -- History -- 19th centur

HOSPITAL TRANSPORTS.

                                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 request of the
                         Sanitary Commission._

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                               _Boston_:
                          TICKNOR AND FIELDS.
                                 1863.

      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
                             Massachusetts.

                           UNIVERSITY PRESS:
                      WELCH, BIGELOW, AND COMPANY,
                               CAMBRIDGE.

                             _DEDICATION._

                           TO THE MEMORIES OF

                          J. M. GRYMES, M. D.,

sometime Surgeon in charge of the Hospital Transport _Daniel Webster_,
and, at the time of his death, Surgeon to the temporary _Home_ for
disabled soldiers, of the Sanitary Commission at Washington;—

                      WILLIAM PLATT, JUNIOR, ESQ.,

late a Relief Agent of the Sanitary Commission, who died from the effect
of prolonged exposure and excessive exertion in pushing succor to the
wounded during and after the battles of South Mountain, Crampton's Gap,
and Antietam;—

              Lieut.-Col. JOSEPH BRIDGHAM CURTIS, U.S.V.,

formerly of the Engineer Corps of the Central Park of New York,
afterwards of the central staff of the Sanitary Commission, who fell
while leading his regiment to the assault of the rebel works at
Fredericksburg, December, 1862;—

                        RUDD C. HOPKINS, M. D.,

formerly Superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum of Ohio, lately a General
Inspector of the Sanitary Commission, 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 war, having died at
Louisville, Kentucky, on her way home from the Head-quarters Relief
Station of the Sanitary Commission with the Army of the Tennessee,—of
disease there contracted;—

                       DAVID BOSWELL REID, M. D.,

Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; Fellow of the Royal College of
Physicians of London; Member of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of St.
Petersburg; formerly Director of Ventilation at the Houses of Parliament
of Great Britain; late Professor of Physiology and Hygiene at the
University of Wisconsin; at the time of his death, Special Inspector of
the Ventilation of Hospitals of the Sanitary Commission;—and

                     Surgeon ROBERT WARE, U. S. V.,

Hospital transports : $b A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded from the peninsula of Virginia in the summer of 1862

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