Image ID: AGNN

Library of Congress says: Ambulance train, 1st Division, 2d Army Corps.

Library of Congress also says: Removing wounded, Fredericksburg, Va.? 57th N.Y. Ambulance Corps.

Metropolitan Museum of Art says: Removing Dead from Battlefield, Marye’s Heights, May 2, 1864.

Miller, Photographic History of the Civil War, Vol. 7, pp. 298-9 says: This spirited scene of mercy followed close on the assault of the famous ‘”Stone Wall” at Frederickburg, May 2, 1863 [sic]. The ambulances belong to the Fifty-seventh New York, which suffered a terrible loss when it helped, as a part of Sedgwick’s Corps, to carry Marye’s Heights. Out of one hundred and ninety-two men engaged, eight were killed, seveny-eight were wounded, and one was reported missing, a loss of forty-five percent. Then the ambulance train was rushed to the front. Within half an hour all the wounded were in the field hospitals. The corps still had many of the short, sharply tilted, jolting two-wheeled ambulances whose rocking motion proved a torment to sufferers. Several four-wheeled ambulances appear, however, and later in the war the tow-wheeled ambulances were entirely superseded. The long lines of infantry drawn in battle array in the background are ready to repel any further assaults while the wounded are being removed on the litters. t/he one in the foreground (on the left) exhibits a device to elevate the patient’s limbs. The medical officer is gazing anxiously at the wounded soldier, and an orderly in hurrying over with some bandaging, Directly behind the orderly, bearers are lifting another sufferer on a litter into the four-wheeled ambulance.

Etched onto negative: New No. 263 [crossed out]. 177. 50.