![]() ![]() Crane, had been appointed to examine and report on its New York, and on March 2, 1858, a Board of Officers, consisting of Surgeons R. Give assistance, and to see that no improper persons are suffered to avail themselves of theĪccommodation." No ambulance wagons were attached to the American army in Mexico inġ846-'48, or to the expeditions in Indian territories before the outbreak of the war. Will be attached to the rear guard, when necessary and practicable, and a surgeon will attend to ![]() Paragraph 704, it was ordered that: "For the accommodation of the sick and disabled, a wagon In the General Regulations for the Army of the United Sates, Washington, 1847, page 123, Transport wagons used on this occasion for conveying sick and wounded. Way on litters between two horses." Surgeon Satterlee probably had reference to the ordinary ![]() Withlacoochee, in a report from Fort Brooke, Tampa Bay, dated January 5th: "I found theĪmbulances very serviceable, but as some of the wounded could not be transported in them, onĪccount of the roughness of the road, between thirty and forty of them were brought a part of the Seventy miles, in sleighs, losing six patients by death. 126) relates that he transported, in February,ġ814, four hundred and fifty sick men from Malone to Plattsburgh and Burlington, a distance of Upon Larrey's plan." The same author (loc. The flying machinesĬalled volant, drawn by horses (an improvement of Larrey, Chief Surgeon of the French army),Īre useful in open countries, where a corps is assigned to accompany them on the field of battle, Remove invalids after having recovered from wounds to a remote hospital. Take the wounded from the field of battle, or transport the sick in case of a retrograde march, or Not to be immediately dependent on the Quartermaster's Department, when requisite either to During the war with Great Britain, in 1812-'14, there were evidently noĪmbulance wagons in the United States army, as Surgeon James Mann,(2) in his report of thatĬampaign, is found to make the request that, "to facilitate the movement of the hospitalĭepartment attached to an army, it should be furnished with a number of wagons and teams, so as Health of the troops" which contained the following paragraph:(1) "That a suitable number ofĬovered and other wagons, litters, and other necessaries for removing the sick and wounded, shallīe supplied by the Quartermaster or Deputy Quartermaster General and in case of theirĭeficiency, by the Director or Deputy Director General." There is no record that such vehicles ![]() The Congress of the United States passed a bill "devising ways and means for preserving the In the War of Independence, in April, 1777, Made available for the purpose, had been employed. Transport carts, army wagons, ox teams, in fact anything that could be Had not been in use in the armies of the United States until a year or so before the outbreak of the Ambulance Wagons"Īmbulance wagons, or wagons especially designed for the transport of sick and wounded, (1861-65.) -Part III, Volume II, Chapter XV.-Transportation Of The Wounded. Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. ![]()
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