New-York daily tribune., 1862-04-18
THE EXPECTED BATTLE AT YORKTOWN
AND THE SANITARY COMMISSION.

The Sanitary Commission has made arrangements
with the War Departmen. BY which it engages to be
prepared whenever required, to completely equip,
provision, and furnish floating hospitals or trans
ports for the wounded, for ono thousand patients,
and NJ short notice for much greater number.
Il has already in Washington the larger part OF
what il necessary for this purpose, ard now calls
upon its auxarcs in the Eastern States to send for
ward such suitable additional stores ~ they pave
collected or can ut once collect, without delay The
Commission has recently sent portable storehoufe
TO Fort Monroe 10 order to be able to increase ts
reserve supply Of stores at that point, from which
artices for the wounded and sick in the line before
Yorktown are daily forwarded. Two members OF
the Commissions regular staff Of surgeons, with
assistants and Of land transportation, are also
on the ground. ,
The design Of the Sanitary Commission is, in all
casep to anticipate the contingencies Of war as Ear as
possible. For this purpose certain stock Of supplies
il maintained 40 near be to the held Of active
operations Of each advancing column and trust
worthy professional agents arc kept IN daily commu-
picstiop with their Headquarters, by whose advice
aid can be directed inteligenty aud without unne-
ce.sary expense or waste. This was the case with
the forces which won the battles Of Mill Spring,
Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Island No. 10, and
Pittsburg Landing. The aid supplied by the Com
mission in these cases was Immediate and most
important. The Commission, ct this moment has
specs professional agents attending respectively the
Missr.ippi feet, the army at Pittsburg Landing,
Gen. Mitcheis division, Banks column, Dix's
column, Mcdowell column, Wordsworth division,
at Gen. McClellan's headquarters, at Newbern, s'
Fernandina, and at Ship Island, TO each of whom
tbey should be. Lodges maintained by the
Commission or its local auxiarics at Cairo, Louis
vile, Nashville, and Washington, at which board
lodging, surgical attendance, and nursing are pro
yided gra,nitously TO all soldiers or discharged
soldiers who need 1t. Special arrangements Tor The
care tmd assistance of the wounded aud sick are
made at Chicago, Cincinnati, and other points.
For these and other purposes Of similar character
the Commission needs TO make large expenditures,
and taat in 10 other WY and through no orgapiza'
ton less general aud comprehensive III ts scope, can
money be so well expended IN behalf oil the SICK and
/ wounded.
or the means TO enable il to net confidently and
.tronely wherever occasion may present ITSELF Con-
trbutions Of money requested to be sent 70 zoe e
Treasurer. George 4. Strong, esq., No. Is wan
street. Il. .
Tho Commission congratuates rs associates on the
of the bill for tho reorganization oil the Med
,c.I Stad Of the Army, which includes provhions
nroposcd by the Commission for the purpose OF se'
nrno . greater degree Of systematic sanitary pre-
csution in the adminis ration Of he army and great
or drectness and efficiency IN tho rcgulatioh sup
rIv of the wants Of the sick and wounded. Refer
ence il made, also, with pleasure, 70 recent most
mapspa thai column of the army where the need for
such an order was greatest, in which was incorpo-
r.,ed the most important part OF the advice the
ad"oton Of which during the last year the Commits
ION has been striving to obtain From this success
h takes courage for renewed zeal in the good work
committed TO It by it's contributors.
FRED. LAW OLMSTED, General Secretary.
Washiagton. April 10. 1852
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usually called for the following will bo CRATE
fully received. They may be sent:
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In Philadelphia to the Pennsylvania Branch Of ssn"S'
Commission, No. l 2J3 Chestnut street ,r I..,
In Boston. to the New England Womsnb Au1""' NV
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