The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-08-12

that was furnished for the inner man was
two half rations a day---maggoty ham,
hard bread and muddy water.
During the morning Of the present day
he came stalking into The room, and with
a pompous air and manner wanted 20
know why some of them did not go down
and take care Of their disabled. This
aroused the temper Of the doctor, and not
caring what might be the consequences
he gave the aforesaid military gentleman
good sound tOngue-lashing, and wound
up by saying, you've robbed us of our
money, our medical stores, our surgical
instruments and our personal liberty, and
then have the impudcnce 20 ask us why
we don't 90 down 20 our friends, only TO
annoy, worry and add 90 their discomh-
turc by telling them we can do nothing
for them" After the Doctor had done,
military gentleman subsidized and quietly
retired, without in any manner replying.
During the afternoon of the same day
the Doctor u SEINE way, managed 10
communicate with tho Chief Secesh Medi-
cal Purveyor who managed TO have him
liberatey an provided him with a pass
to return TO Savage Station. While on
his way to tht cars the sights he saw
were sickenuig and distressing in the
extreme Our men laying in the open
streets. nothing under them, with the
broiling sun beating down full upon
them, some without nourishmcnt, not even
drink of water, for two whole days.
What to him was still more distressing,
was the fact that he had not power to
help them. ....
The same afternoon he returned TO
Savage Station, and some three or four
days after, all the disabled, with sur
geons and nurses, were taken to Rich
mOnd, where for ten days they suffered
all the torments and indignities of those
who had preceded them. Again were all
| sick and well, taken back to Savage Sta
ton, and after remaining there for a day
or two, were again placed on the cars,
! taken back to Richmond, from there to
| Petersburg, aud thence to Richmond, and
on Sunday last placed upon transports
and sent to the North.
The details Of the horrors and suffer
! ings Of these men are too sickening to
repeat. Yet, we are told that had they
the means to do better it is the impress
sion of all that their treatment would
have been different.
The doctor states they were at liberty
to purchase whatever could be bought,
and, although the United States Treasu-
ry notes are at premium, yet, when eggs
are selling at a shilling apiece, sugar
| 81 GOA pound, tea and coffee SO and 81
a pound, a ten dollar note will not go
a great ways.
The surgeon managed to buy some six
Or eight sheep, at S1f head-of them
making broth. 1t helped in a great
measure to keep many from starving.
The Doctor says that among those who
were the most unkind to our sick and
wounded were the citizens, while the
most heartless of them were the women,
There is no desert without an oasis,
and that rule will apply in this case, for
among these Ueyy tends were two who de-
serve honorable mention Tor their en-
deayors TO relieve every species ofsuilec-
ing, and TO remove every cause OF COM
plant These were Captain Lacey
Stewart, of the Twenty. fourth Georgia
Regiment, and Lieutenant johnson, OF
the same Regiment These gentlemen
were in the charge of the Guard at Saw
age Station, and did all in their power
TO aid the Surgeons and stop the H'lUlg
! Of their companions in arms.