Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-05-02
Very truly yours,
DAVID TOD, Governor.
OHLUrBUs, April %, 1876

His E-esBeaey D0Vid Tod, Governor:
sIR: In obedience TO your instructions of
the 18th inst, I proceeded on the next day to
Cincinnati, and found that Col. Bliss had
chartered the steamboat Glendale for the ex.
petition described in your instructisns.
We Immediately set to work to furnish her
with the hospital stores and supplies, which
the expedition required.
With the assistance Of DR.. Smith, who az
rived on the morning of the 18th, we com
pleted the losding of the supplies on Sstur-
dav, and left Cincinnati on Saturday evening,
the 18th inst at o'clock
DR.. Smith of this c ty was pat in charge
as experimenting surgeon and physician, and
selected his corps Of surgeons and nurses,
whose names viii be found in the statement
herewith submitted. hL--. te
We arrived at PIttsburg Landing without
any occurrence worthy Of note, on Tuesday
morning, the 22d instant, about 9 O'Clock
Having become satisfied from my own OBJ
servatlon on my former expedition, ss well s5
from information received on the way, that
the rule requiring all boats to receive the sick
and wounded as they came 70 the landing,
without regard to the States which they be-
Ionged, was not regarded By boats from other
States, determined TO ignore the authorities,
and proceeded at once to the Ohio camps in
search Of our sick and wounded volunteers,
and upon procuring the proper surgeons Ger
66cste to have them at once removed to our
boat.
1 felt satisfied that If the course we were
pursuing shOald come to the knowledge Of
The Commanding General, he might very
properly permit a thing to be done without
bis authority, which he would not feel at
liberty to sanction or authoriEs in advance.
We experienced no opposition or interrup-
ton, and by IL o'clock on Wednesday, we
had received on board nearly zoo sick and
wounded Ohio volunteers.
We received ten from Kentucky, Indiana,
Illinois and Michigan, all of which v ere cases
Of peculiar hardship, which the dictates
of humanity would not permit Us to refuse.
Besides, Kentucky and Indiana have been
very liberal in rendering aid to Ohio Volun-
tssrs, end we should have subjected our State
to the charge of illiberality and ingrsutHde
if we had refused to reciprocaJe.
Atll O'Clock on Wednesday, the 2Sd, We
left the landing and dropped down to SsEan-
nah. where we took some thirty 0hioans
rom the hospitals and passed down to Cliff
ton, twenty miles below, where We took some
fifteen more.
There probably a few more Of our volun-
teers a. Pittsburg Landing, and about fifteen
at the hospitals ct Savannah, that ought to
be removed.
On our return We met The steamer Tycoon,
on its way to Pittsburg Landing, under the
direction Of the Cincinnati Sanitary CON-
mission. and she can and no doubt viii take
from the Tennessee every Ohio volunteer who
ought 70 be removed from the army.
/ vas much EfatiRed to find on returning
to Cincinnati, that you bad telegraphsd Col
| Bliss 10 charter q boat and proceed immedi.
atelv to st. Louis, and the intermediate hos
pitsls between St. Louis and OEncinnati, and
/ bring homs the Ohio volunteers tdat may be
found Ii them.
There is q large number in the hospitals 81
st. Louis, Cairo, Mound City, and Paducah
and q few ct Evansville, New Albany ant
Louisville.
The two expeditions fitted out under The
authority Of The State, have brought homt
more than four hundred Of our brave anc
gallant volunteers who have been suffering
rom wounds received In battle, and diseases
resulting from the privstions and hsrdshipI
incident to the service, BESIDES nearly one
/ hundred from other Btsies.
Many valuable and pEecio1s lives have beer
saved. and 90 incalculable amount Of pair
and suffering both Of body and mind have
been relieved.
And Whateyer may be said TO the contrary
these expeditions have been fitted up ant
L ,.anaged with more regard to the care ant
comfort Of the sick and wounded who hsv'
beeD brought home in them, than any othel
bostp thai have been engaged In this bust
ness.
Isay this from my own observation up
on the authority Of those who hsVe accom'
panied ne in these expeditions, as vel q
from the concurrent testimony OF the Sur
geons, Medical Directors and other PsEsoni
Who ars charged vita the care Of hospitals
Who have yisiIed our boats at various pointI
from Pitiaburg Landing to Cincinnati.
Df. Cushing and his corps Of Surgeons and