Item #613 Hospital Transports, A Memoir of the Embarkation of the Sick and Wounded From the Peninsula Of Virginia in the Summer of 1862. Frederick Olmstead.
Hospital Transports, A Memoir of the Embarkation of the Sick and Wounded From the Peninsula Of Virginia in the Summer of 1862.

Hospital Transports, A Memoir of the Embarkation of the Sick and Wounded From the Peninsula Of Virginia in the Summer of 1862.

Boston: Ticknor, 1863. First. Hard Bound. VG/VG+ / None. Item #613

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Published at the request of the Sanitary Commission during the Civil War.An interesting account of the development of the transport system from nothing to the introduction of the first transport, the Daniel Webster. Had to have been a new introduction caring for your wounded.

Nevins II-132: "An excellent description... by a master writer...reveals forcefully the Union tragedy of the Peninsula Campaign."

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