Union Army Department

This estimate came from Samuel Ramsey, chief clerk for the U.S. Army Medical Department. For details see George Worthington Adams, Doctors in Blue The Medical History of the Union Army in the Civil War (1952 reprint. Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press), p. 178 and Mary Elizabeth Massey, Bonnet Brigades American Women and the Civil War (New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1966), p. 52. 

U.S. War Department. (1891). War of the Rebellion A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 36, Part 3, 888. Government Printing Office. 

I owe a profound debt to my former students and associates who, over the years, have participated in studies of the viscoelastic properties of polymers at the University of Wisconsin, and whose collective experience has contributed greatly to writing this book. The work cited from our own laboratory was supported by the Research Committee of the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin the Ordnance Corps, Department of the Army National Science Foundation Office of Naval Research Allegany Ballistics Laboratory and Union Carbide Chemicals Qompany. 

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