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Scene depicts the field tent hospital set up on the evening of April 7, 1862 by medical officers of the Union’s Army of the Ohio after the Battle of Shiloh.

Scene depicts the field tent hospital set up on the evening of April 7, 1862 by medical officers of the Union’s Army of the Ohio after the Battle of Shiloh.

Rows of Sibley tents are shown, with litter-bearers carrying the wounded to and from horse-drawn ambulance wagons. Other wounded soldiers who have already been treated are shown milling about. In the background, to the right, is a portion of the Noah Cantrell House with light coming through a window from a makeshift operating room. Established and organized by Asst. Surgeon Bernard J.D. Irwin, Union and Confederate soldiers alike were given medical treatment in this first consolidated tent hospital, a forerunner of modern military field hospitals.

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Civil War, (HFC ArtTheme)
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Shiloh National Military Park, Code: SHIL

Shiloh National Military Park, Hardin County, Tennessee
Latitude: 35.138500213623, Longitude: -88.3421020507813

Image Management System : IMS 05524

HFC Commissioned Art Collection

20190904

01/01/1984 - 12/30/1984

Image_Size=16" x 12"; Count:9/12; Exhibit 12/Graphic # 12-7

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Copeland, Peter

Organization: Harpers Ferry Center
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