Monday.

WAG

I'm guessing that caliber is inportant in this "tool".

Re: Monday.

Would Moses be a first name with the last name starting with a "B"

Neither correct. Hint:

You can add Howard, Rosecrans, Tripler, Langer. These had national importance and coast to coast coverage. They were associated with government work but like some other things governmental, a good idea occasionally does as much harm as good.

Re: Monday.

Did they have red flashing lights back then also, : ' > ?

No, but the trains did. Good on ya.

Re: Monday.

Autenrieth, Coolidge, Finley, Moses and Wheeling was the law firm who successfully sued the British for burning down the White House. The settlement was paid in cash, some horses and a few cases of Scotch.

Tom

Re: Monday answer.

Dale gets the gold forehead star.

The names were all the various types of U.S. Army field ambulance. They didn�t carry red lights, flashing or other, but a YELLOW flag. At night hospital trains did carry three red lanterns below the headlamp on the front of the engine. Most of the wagons named were used during the U.S. Civil War. Some were two wheeled carts and some four wheel wagons outfitted with benches, or litter carriers. 1847 was the true beginning of the U.S. Medical Service �General Regulations for the Army of the United States, Page 123, paragraph 704.� But earlier, in 1777, Congress allowed �suitable covered wagons, litters, and other necessaries for removing the sick and wounded.� However, they were never provided.

In emergencies, before ambulances, much of the time two horses with a litter strapped between them were used. That technique was borrowed from Europe. A travois was also used, and sleighs were recorded as carrying sick soldiers in February 1838.

Early ambulances killed more than a few passengers owing to bad suspension, rough roads, overloading, reopening wounds. The first approved ambulance was the �Moses� as proposed by Dr. I. Moses of New York. It held eighteen including four on the front seat but only a maximum of three men lying down. It had a primitive suspension for the wounded and two chests inside that could be moved to make a table. Apparently it was a rough ride. It had a roof of canvas and often the wagon was the center �post� that supported more canvas �wings� that made a large hospital tent with the wagon as the center point when it was away from the fighting areas. Other variations of wagons or carts mentioned, including the most common one I avoided naming, the Rucker, provided ambulance services mostly with improvements in size, suspension, harnessing and/or number of horses necessary to get the men and horses (if a horse goes down with a 50 caliber bullet while harnessed in a four or six horse team�well, you�re mostly screwed) back to a field hospital, a train, or river boat/ship.

http://www.civilwarhome.com/ambulancewagons.htm

will get more info � 17 pages, including illustrations