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Disease was the chief killer in the war - claiming two soldiers for every one killed in battle. Hospitals were so unsanitary that one Union soldier lamented: "If a fellow has [to go to the] Hospital, you might as well say goodbye." Savage Station, Va. Field hospital after the battle of June 27 Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1862 June 30 REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-0491 Washington, D.C. Hospital tents in rear of Douglas Hospital Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the hospitals. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1864 May REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-7924 City Point, Va. Tents of the general hospital Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1864 October REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-7134 Doctors examining a Federal prisoner returned from prison CREATED/PUBLISHED: Photographed between 1861 and 1865, printed later REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7961 Unknown location. Zouave ambulance crew demonstrating removal of wounded soldiers from the field; another view Photographs of artillery, place and date unknown. CREATED/PUBLISHED: Between 1860 and 1865 REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-7636 Unknown location. Zouave ambulance crew demonstrating removal of wounded soldiers from the field Photographs of artillery, place and date unknown. CREATED/PUBLISHED: Between 1860 and 1865 REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-7285 Culpeper, Va. Surgeons of the 2d Division, 3d Corps Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Meade in Virginia, August-November 1863. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1863 September REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-7378 Keedysville, Md., vicinity. Confederate wounded at Smith's Barn, with Dr. Anson Hurd, 14th Indiana Volunteers, in attendance Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862. Photograph of Confederate wounded after the Battle of Antietam, Dr. A. Hurd, 14th Indiana Infantry in attendance. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1862 September REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-0588 Washington, D.C. Patients in Ward K of Armory Square Hospital Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the hospitals. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1865 August REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-7822 Broadway Landing, Va. Surgeons of 4th Division, 9th Corps Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1864 July REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-7046 Fredericksburg, Va. Nurses and officers of the U.S. Sanitary Commission Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Grant's Wilderness Campaign, May-June 1864. Photograph includes women. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1864 May REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-0741 Wounded soldiers from the battles in the "Wilderness" at Fredericksburg, Va., May, 1864 CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1864, printed later REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-4582, LC-B8184-740 Washington, D.C. General view of Harewood Hospital, on farm of W. W. Corcoran, 7th Street Road near Soldiers' Home Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the hospitals. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1864 April REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-7825 Copyright 2002 WETA. All rights reserved.