Accurate Figures produced a set of Confederate engineers which includes unarmed soldiers who may be converted to stretcher bearers and hospital stewards. The sculptor is obviously the same who created the exquisite American Civil War soldiers for Accurate Figures, which were also distributed by Revell. The painted model will be the center piece of any collection of period troops and vehicles. The standard ambulance was a very modern looking vehicle, and the IMEX model is a good representation of it. This is a subject which will inspire diorama builders. The medical services of the American Civil War have not been available in miniature until now. The following year, Letterman set up a tent hospital at Gettysburg which continued to treat wounded from that battle long after the armies had moved on. Despite these preparations, it took more than 24 hours to evacuate 8,000 wounded after the Battle of Chickamauga, on 17th September 1862. If a large battle had been anticipated, 12–15 regimental surgeons would be attached to the divisional field hospital to treat the wounded there, and additional civilian surgeons might be contracted for the duration. Medical cadets were enlisted to assist at dressing stations or to dress wounds in the field. To the regimental dressing station whence they were transported to the field hospital for treatment. Bandsmen, and additional men detailed from the regiment acted as stretcher bearers who took the wounded back Three ambulances, with three drivers and six stretcher bearers commanded by a sergeant, were attached to each regiment in the division. Potomac, and his work led to the creation of an independent Federal Ambulance Corps in August of 1862. A Union army medical director by the name of Jonathan Letterman reorganized the medical services of the Army of the When the Union army suffered reverses on the battlefield, the medical services were usually caught up in the retreat, and they frequently abandoned huge stockpiles of badly needed medical supplies. Letterman HospitalĪt the beginning of the war, the available Union ambulance services and medical supplies were centralized at the corps or army level, a system which proved very impractical. Confederate army medical services were in a much worse condition, they frequently had to rely on Union resources, and personnel to treat the wounded of both sides. Fortunately for the Union army, it received medical assistance and supplies from the Christian and Sanitary Commissions, in addition to many volunteer organizations which took care of sick and wounded soldiers. The armies involved in the American Civil War seriously underestimated the effect of modern weaponry on troops operating in relatively dense formations on the battlefield, and they were not prepared to deal with the enormous numbers of casualties requiring evacuation and treatment. The mules provided with the ambulance model have been replaced by more attractive draught horses taken from Revell’s Thirty Years War Artillery. Ambulance Wagon, 1861–1865 IMEX 1:72 Scale Vehicle ReviewĪn ambulance arrives to evacuate stretcher cases to the nearest field hospital.
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