Sunday, April 17, 2011

Primary Source Article

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/np_item.pl How Wounded Yankee is Treated From Hospital to Home.

In the first part if the article it states that Prvt. Smith was injured in battle and his thigh was shattered. This article's purpose is that it shows how the soliders were moved from thev battle field to the field hospital then to the main hosptial. It also shows what medicine the soilders were giving so that they would stay alive. They stated in the article that had to move patients at night because it was to dangerous to move wounded soilders during the day.

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