... for removing wounded men from the battlefield and transporting them to hospitals. According to reports, none of the injured in the first Battle of Bull Run traveled by ambulance to Washington, but some had walked some twenty-seven miles for treatment. Several days after the battle, medical director King organized a relief detachment of thirty-nine ambulances. But the convoy wandered aimlessly ... permission allowing safe access to the battlefield was repeatedly denied by Confederate authorities. Fearful that the ambulances, with their supplies, would be captured, King ordered the carria...

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... figure in the revolutionary generation, the West was America's future. In 1803, Jefferson bought Louisiana from France for $15 million dollars and doubled the size of America by 828,000 square miles. Fear of the potential threat that the French posed while living in the United States, also wanting the port at New Orleans, and wanting the fertile land that Louisiana ... forced to give up their land but so were Mexicans who inhabited much of the southwest. In 1836, Texas declared that they were an independent republic, and the politicians in Washington feared that Britain was teaming up w...

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