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Union medical care improved dramatically during 1862. By the end of the year each regiment was being regularly supplied with a standard set of medical supplies included medical books, supplies of medicine, small hospital furniture like bed-pans, containers for mixing medicines, spoons, vials, bedding, lanterns, and numerous other implements. [17]
Between 6 and 16 February 1862, Union Army troops advanced across the United States to capture Forts Henry and Donelson.In response to news reports of these combat engagements, members of the U.S. Sanitary Commission who were stationed in Cincinnati, Ohio, began to gather supplies and recruit volunteers to help distribute those supplies and render care to ailing and injured soldiers.
Martia L. Davis Berry raised supplies for the Great Northwestern Sanitary Fair (Chicago, 1865), receiving medal No. 15 for her services [30] Mary Ann Bickerdyke served as a nurse for the Sanitary Commission and is credited with establishing 300 field hospitals during the Civil War; Henry Whitney Bellows served as the President of the Commission.
They provided hospital service, food, clothing, and medical supplies. They established their distribution center at 95 Bank (W. 6th) St. From February 22 to March 10, 1864, the women from the Soldiers' Aid Society held a Sanitation Fair. The fair was organized to raise money to help soldiers during the Civil War.
The 7,000-square-foot (650 m 2) museum consists of five immersion exhibits that recreate aspects of Civil War medical issues: life in an army camp, evacuation of the wounded from the battlefront, a field dressing station, a field hospital and a military hospital ward. The exhibits incorporate surviving tools and equipment from the war ...
Civil War military equipment of the United States includes all military equipment designed, built, or operated by the United States during the American Civil War period (approximately 1860 to 1865). Subcategories
Russian surgeon Nikolay Pirogov was one of the first surgeons to use ether as an anaesthetic in 1847, as well as the very first surgeon to use anaesthesia in a field operation during the Crimean War. During the American Civil War, Jonathan Letterman modernized medical organization on the battlefield for the Union.
The Medical Department was responsible for acquiring and distributing medicine, medical equipment, hospital food and similar supplies. [33] The Ordnance Department was responsible for the development, procurement, storage, distribution and repair of all ordnance and ordnance-related equipment such as limbers and caissons and accoutrements . [ 34 ]