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Quotation from Memoirs by William Tecumseh Sherman
“They worked day and night, and did not rest till all the wounded of our own troops as well as of the enemy were in safe and comfortable shelter”
Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. X (official report of Shiloh) (Project Gutenberg #2616 (Vol. I))
Sherman credits Surgeon Hartshorne and Dr. L'Hommedieu for the field hospitals improvised during the battle.
Citation: "They worked day and night, and did not rest till all the wounded of our own troops as well as of the enemy were in safe and comfortable shelter" — William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. X (official report of Shiloh) (Project Gutenberg #2616 (Vol. I)). (id shermans-memoirs-q5)
Portrait: William Tecumseh Sherman, Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain.
