At High Tide will expand upon the progressive efforts first put into practice at September Storm in 2007. Just as in the actual war, wounded will be escorted or carried from the field of battle. Taken to aid stations manned by medical staff, they will be given initial treatment, and then either sent back to their units, kept until the battle subsides or loaded into ambulances for transport to the rear for more immediate treatment.

This procedure is documented in many sources. Here is the one Woodward included in his "Hospital Steward's Manual":

The hospital attendants who go upon the field may be divided into two classes: those who accompany the medical officers, who go upon the field for the immediate succor of the wounded, and those who accompany the ambulances and litters to help the wounded into them, or bear the hand-stretchers.

Each medical officer should be accompanied upon the field by an orderly, who carries the hospital knapsack, in which is placed a supply of instruments, dressings, &c. for immediate use. When the surgeon stops to give his services to a wounded man, the orderly at once un-slings his knapsack and opens it to hand out to the surgeon the articles needed in dressing the patient. The medical officer should also be accompanied by two intelligent attendants, one of them a hospital steward where possible, to assist him in any operation he may perform upon the field.

The ambulances are to be accompanied by a sufficient number of attendants, with hand stretchers, to pick up the wounded and carry them from positions inaccessible to the ambulances, or where it is not advisable that these should go, to the nearest ambulances, or field depot. In lifting the wounded and placing them. upon the stretchers, the greatest tenderness should be used, especially where there is reason to avoid jolting as much as possible while going to the depot. Arrived at the depot, the ambulance is to be backed up as near the entrance as possible, the litters, with the patients upon them, are to be drawn out one by one, and carried to the place assigned them, the patients removed, the litters replaced, and the ambulance starts off once more for a fresh load.

The number of hospital attendants allowed in the field being usually found insufficient for this purpose, an additional detail is generally required. The musicians are usually selected; but, in addition to these, an adequate number of temporary assistants will generally be furnished by the commanding officer, at the request of the surgeon. The principle endeavored to be established is that the number of men actually on that duty should be sufficiently large to give all reasonable assistance during the engagement, in order that there may be no excuse fur soldiers to leave the ranks under the pretence that they are needed to assist the wounded. Hospital attendants and soldiers specially detailed to the ambulance corps during an engagement should remember that their duty is strictly & military one, and that there is no more excuse for cowardice or for disobedience of orders in their case than there is in that of any other soldiers on duty on the field of battle. (Woodward, p.69-73)

(ed. For the Federals, this procedure was modified in the Summer of 1862 with the institution of the Federal Ambulance Corps within the Army of the Potomac. The ambulances and drafts of men from the regiments were simply moved into the Ambulance Corps.)

To implement this historical procedure, Medical Staff will register seperately from their normal units to facilitate an accurate count and communication with the Medical Director.

Most Medical Officers will portray Assistant Surgeons responsible for the aid stations and the orderlies assigned there. Hospital Stewards and some orderlies will assist with aid station treatment and administrative routine. Bandsman and some musicians will be detailed to the Medical Director for assignment to the Aid Stations and Ambulance Corps. Additionally, each field company will supply one fit man for the duration of the event for duties as assigned by the Medical Director. Details on the drafts will be sent to Battalion and Company commanders as General Orders from the respective commanding officers. It is expected that the field companies will rotate the men assigned their company allotment for this detail.

Uniform requirements are the same as found under US or CS Troops. (see links) Equipment and field dressing requirments will be communicated directly to the Medical Officers as totals of troops are confirmed by registrations. Some equipment, such as field litters, will be hand receipted to those troops detailed to use them.

For any questions, please send them to the Medical Impression Director, John Novicki.