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Hospital Transports.
A MEMOIR
of the
Embarkation of the Sick and Wounded
from the Peninsula of Virginia
in the Summer of
1862.
DEDICATION.
To the Memories of
J. M. GRYMES, M. D.,
sometime Surgeon in charge of the Hospital TransportDaniel Webster, and, at the time of his death, Surgeon tothe temporary Home for disabled soldiers, of the SanitaryCommission at Washington;—
WILLIAM PLATT, Junior, Esq.,
late a Relief Agent of the Sanitary Commission, whodied from the effect of prolonged exposure and excessiveexertion in pushing succor to the wounded during andafter the battles of South Mountain, Crampton's Gap, andAntietam;—
Lieut.-Col. JOSEPH BRIDGHAM CURTIS, U.S.V.,
formerly of the Engineer Corps of the Central Park ofNew York, afterwards of the central staff of the SanitaryCommission, who fell while leading his regiment tothe assault of the rebel works at Fredericksburg, December,1862;—
RUDD C. HOPKINS, M. D.,
formerly Superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum of Ohio,lately a General Inspector of the Sanitary Commission,ivand who died in its service, while on the river passagefrom Memphis to Cincinnati;—
MRS. FANNY SWAN WARRINER,
who bore heroically to the end a woman's part in war, havingdied at Louisville, Kentucky, on her way home fromthe Head-quarters Relief Station of the Sanitary Commissionwith the Army of the Tennessee,—of diseasethere contracted;—
DAVID BOSWELL REID, M. D.,
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; Fellow ofthe Royal College of Physicians of London; Member ofthe Medico-Chirurgical Society of St. Petersburg; formerlyDirector of Ventilation at the Houses of Parliamentof Great Britain; late Professor of Physiology andHygiene at the University of Wisconsin; at the time ofhis death, Special Inspector of the Ventilation of Hospitalsof the Sanitary Commission;—and