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Its all there in the Crimean War, including Florence Nightingale and the beginning of women in nursing. https://archive.org/stream/reportonartofwar00unit#page/272/mode/2up Steam powered transport vessels, telegraph reporting for governments and journalists, photographs, and rapid advances in emphasis on sanitation, it was known in 1858. The knowledge came pouring in through New York, and army insiders like Colonel Lee, General Johnston and for the US Delafield himself.
This may explain why George McClellan was so important in the early months of the war for the US. He not only worked on the report, but had talked to many European officers and read much of the literature on the Crimean War. His familiarity with these subjects had to be of great help to Lincoln.
McClellan's youth and intelligence had to sharply contrast with Scott's age and Halleck's outdated emphasis on Napoleonic geometry.
This may explain why George McClellan was so important in the early months of the war for the US. He not only worked on the report, but had talked to many European officers and read much of the literature on the Crimean War. His familiarity with these subjects had to be of great help to Lincoln.
McClellan's youth and intelligence had to sharply contrast with Scott's age and Halleck's outdated emphasis on Napoleonic geometry.