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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]
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.
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.
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 ...
The Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument is a major Civil War monument in Cleveland, Ohio, honoring the more than 9,000 individuals from Cuyahoga County who served the Union throughout the war. [1] It was dedicated on July 4, 1894, and is located on the southeast quadrant of Public Square in Downtown Cleveland. [2]
135th Medical Battalion, End of World War II [10] 151st Medical Battalion, End of World War II [10] 168th Medical Battalion [187] Camp Shanks, New York, 30 October 1945; Fort Lewis, Washington, 21 June 1971; 180th Medical Battalion, Camp Miles Standish, Massachusetts, 23 November 1945 [188] 232nd Medical Composite Battalion, Italy, 12 May 1946 [26]
The most significant were the archive of Civil War medical records (essential for verification of veterans' pension claims), the Army Medical Museum (now the National Museum of Health and Medicine), the editorial offices for preparation of the multi-volume Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, and the Library of the Surgeon ...