Report to the Western Sanitary Commission
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Excerpt from Report to the Western Sanitary Commission: On the General Military Hospitals of St. Louis, Mo The General Military Hospitals Of St. Louis, Mo. The history of the Military Hospitals in St. Louis may constitute, if not an interesting, yet an important, part of the history of the civil war in Missouri. The whole nation felt that the contest would rage fiercely in the Border States, and commenced to prepare for the struggle, but did nothing to alleviate the evils which must necessarily accompany it. The clash of arms was soon heard in various sections of the land; sick and wounded combatants were now and then met with, but no provision was made for their relief. Missouri had, early in 1861, declared by an overwhelming majority her attachment for, and her determination to remain in, the Union; yet, when the time for action arrived, when the Executive called on her to furnish her quota of men and means for the national defense, there were many found desirous that she should occupy an impossible - a neutral position. The capture of Camp Jackson precipitated the crisis, and brought her to take a decisive stand. From that day skirmishes and combats became frequent. Up to the month of August the strife was carried on by small bodies, and quite remote from St. Louis. The sick were mostly attended in camp in tents, or in regimental hospitals, in houses that chanced to be near an encampment; few only were brought to the Post Hospital at Jefferson Barracks. During the summer months matters necessarily became worse. Men taken from various in-door avocations were suddenly exposed to the vicissitudes of camp life; compelled often to make rapid and fatiguing marches; to bivouac in malarious regions; to drink water frequently impure and stagnant; and to eat badly prepared food. Officers and men, both novices, unused to this kind of life, soon felt its dire effect They sickened in large numbers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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