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One building, scarcely large enough for two hundred and fifty beds, was packed with nearly a thousand sick and dying men.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “One building, scarcely large enough for two hundred and fifty beds, was packed with nearly a thousand sick and dying…”
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Beveridge emphasizes the overcrowded and dire conditions faced by sick soldiers in a makeshift hospital.
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