Third report concerning the aid and comfort given by the Sanitary Commission to sick soldiers passing through Washington / by Frederick N. Knapp.

  • Knapp, Frederick Newman, 1821-1889.
Date:
[1862?]
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Credit: Third report concerning the aid and comfort given by the Sanitary Commission to sick soldiers passing through Washington / by Frederick N. Knapp. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    up here and given them one of the small houses to them- selves. They seem very grateful for the kindness. There are fifteen women and twenty-nine little children. Now, while this record is made, the three sick men of the New Hampshire 6th regiment, who were sent to the general hospital, are brought in. They say that they have been carried to three different hospitals, but, through some in- formality in their application for admission, they were not received ; and so now they have followed the regiment and are brought here. The day has been excessively cold and bleak, and they must have suffered much. I am thankful that there is shelter and warmth ready for them. January 7.—There are but thirty here to-night, (not including the children of the California soldiers.) The women and children will remain here a few days, until their husbands can make arrangements elsewhere for them. All the New Hampshire men left to-day for Annapolis. The hospital steward received a supply of medicines, enough to serve for a week or two. He stated that a requisition for medicines had been made some days before, but had not yet been answered ; and now they are ordered off for the Burnside expedition destitute of a supply. It may reach them before they sail. January 9.—There are fifty-one in the house to-night; the larger part of them returned prisoners from Richmond; they came in to-day; none of them very sick, as but few of the wounded men came at this time ; but many of them much worn by their long confinement. January io.—To-day we have supplied the needs of all the returned prisoners who came on from Richmond yester- day. They had not received, with few exceptions, the