Sometimes theoccupants would cut through the gable end seam and join two or moretents together, as Mrs. The smaller ones were used to housecommissioned officers. The larger ones were usedfor hospitals and could hold from six to 20 patients double-loaded alongthe long sides of the tent. At the edges, the walls were 4-1/2 feet and a fly of 21-1/2feet by 14 feet could be attached to the tent. In 1860 the size was reduced to 14 feet by 14-1/2 feet, and 11feet high. Beforethe Civil War, the tents were 24 feet by 14-1/2 feet and 11-1/2 feethigh. The hospital or wall tent had four upright sides withan entrance at the gable end. The soldiers did not consider a shelter like thiscomplete until it had a door that closed and a sign over the door. Chimneys most often appeared at a gableend, but sometimes the soldiers built the chimneys in the middle.Fireplaces were built of available materials (brick, stone, or woodlined with mud). The troops most often filled inthe spaces between the logs with mud, and often had to replace thechinking after severe storms. Sometimes the interiors were excavated so thatthey would be warmer in cold climates. The log portions of this type of structure might often have walls of twoto five feet in height. Thetroops often found ways to improve on their assigned piece of canvas.Frequently the men would make a more comfortable shelter by building asmall stockade wall of vertical or horizontal logs and placing thecanvas tent on top of the logs for a roof. Usually four men wereassigned to one of these tents, but most often six would occupy one. Two upright posts,also about 6 feet long, supported the bar. The wedge tent was a simple canvas tent thatstretched over a horizontal bar about 6 feet tall. Although they were cumbersome, they remainedavailable in the post-war era, and they were frequently in use on thefrontier. A cone-shaped stove satin the middle of the tent. A hole in the top of the tent atits center was for ventilation or a stovepipe. Thepole was the radius of the tent circle. It was supported by one pole that rested on an iron tripod. The Sibley tent was 12 feet high with a diameter of 18feet. The creation of the Sibley tent was credited toHenry Sibley who served at Fort Union and left Union forces prior to theCivil War when he led the unsuccessful assault on New Mexico by Texastroops in 1862. Many men were housed in tentstheSibley tent, the wedge tent, and the hospital or wall tent, and the dog(pup) or shelter tent. On the western frontier, a more mobile armyhad tents for the summer and tools and limited (usually onsite)materials to build "winter quarters" that might be occupied for manyyears.
Civil war hospital tents portable#
Portable sawmills existed by the 1820s, but they becameespecially common during the 1850s, so balloon frame construction appeared as a typical building technique at armyposts as it had in the private sectorcontingent of course on theavailability of sawn lumber. Around the period of the Civil Warhewn horizontal log construction and timber frame construction werecommon. Dugouts or trencheswith log construction above grade or puncheons embedded in the earthwere common types of construction. During the early nineteenth century the army mostoften was housed in temporary barracks of various materialsofwood, but sometimes even stone, brick, or adobe. The Army, because of its nature, had temporary andpermanent structures. Becauseof constantly shifting priorities and the relatively transitory natureof the military in the west, western posts were of simple but effectiveconstruction. Army wasstationed west of the Mississippi.
Army during this timeperiod aids in understanding its architecture on the western frontierand at Fort Union.ĭuring the 1850s, four-fifths of the U.S. As one historian pointed out, the only thing uniform about thearmy in the nineteenth century was its uniform. Despite various Army regulations that governedbuilding construction and even standard plans that appeared in the finalquarter of the century, frontier army construction was often rag-tag atbest. Although the term"military" connotes order and discipline, Army structures during thenineteenth century were for the most part haphazard affairs particularlyon the western frontier.
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