The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-05-31
TAKE NOTICE, EVERYBODY !
vTsTT 10 GEN. HALLECK's ARMY
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HOSPITALS.

HOSPITALS.
The neatest hospitals we saw were those
of the 18th and 52d Indiana-the former
presided over by our townsman, DR.. John
T. Walker; the latter presided over by the
Rev DIR. Monfort. 1t does one good to go
into them. The beds are neat, and raised
from the ground on stakes; the patients are
clean and well cared for the tents are kept
dry, and there is no disagreeable odor. DIR.
Jessup, of the Gath, is also model surgeon,
and has both camp and hospital kept in ex-
eellen4 sanitary condition.
SANITARY SOCIETIES.
Speaking the word sanitary, reminds me
that there is a growing feeling amongst the
officers that the sanitary business is little
over-done. A number of officers were heard
to declare that the practice of taking away
boat loads of half sick men, with SO little
care in discriminating between the incura-
BILE or seriously sick and the shirkers and
hypochondriacs, is fast depicting the army
of its life-blood. No wonder the regiments
rye men. In the earnest and creditable de-
sire to do good, there is some danger of
Over.doing even good thing.
ADDITIONAL PHYSICIANS.
a number of these aids to the surgeons
have been appointed. Most of those who
went out several weeks ago have returned
home, and half dozen who went on the
Citizen have followed suit" The inten-
ton in sending them was laudable. Had
there been battle they would have been
needed. As it was, there was no subsist-
ence provided for them; they lived while
in camp by the courtesy of their friends;
were regarded by many persons as inter-
lopers, andafelt like they were camp paupers.
And feeling sprung up amongst the per-
manent surgeons that their being sent was
an intimation that they, the regulars, were
not competent to attend to their business.
This feeling was unjust, but nevertheless it
existed to some extent. In some regiments,
after the medical corps were reinforced,
there would be four doctors to a dozen
sick men-enough to give the poor fellows
the coup de grace Here is another instance
of OVERRIDING,
OUT OF FAVOR.
The truth is, "the Bohemian Brigade"
otherwise "Reportorial Corps" and the
Sanitary Commission and auxiliary doc
tors, are out of favor at the headquarters of
the grand army before Corinth.
"THR SITUATION"
There the writer is "stuck." So strin-
gent are the restrictions on newspaper re-
ports from the army, that l fear I may
transgress the limits allowed. Suffice it to
say, that the grand army is now inthe State
of Mississippi, and is composed of enough
men for ali useful purposes it is arrayed
in a semi-circle, nearly half surrounding
Oorinth, and so close that another move
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ion; supplied with cannon innumerable,
from a six-pounder to a large-sized siege
gum well equipped and appointed; eager
for the fray, and filed with confidence in
the great canse and in the Generals. With
such elements, defeat is out of the question.
To ride through the camps, and observe the
thousands of evidences of might, one is i'm
pressed with the idea that nothing human,
or emanating from human hands, can resist
1t when il moves in its majesty. The fate
of free institutions may be safely rested on
il, and on the army before Richmond, and
our other armies and hotillas. Such an
effective military force as this was never
before seen. 4
8 ~ ~ health. Ef
About nine out of ten of the persons in
camp are suffering from diarrhoea, induced
by bad water and exposure. Rheumatism
and fever are also prevalent, and there
is some smallpox. Considering the hard
ships endured, there is no extraordinary
amount OF sickness. We were surprised to
see so little. Food is plenty and whole
some, and many substitute tea and coffee
as drink for water. Men who never touch
spirits at home, occasionally medicate the
wster they drink with little brandy to
neutralize its bad effects. Large hospitals
in the rear have been established, and with
the aid of the Sanitary Commission as an
auxiliary of the authorized medical depart
ment, the sufferiDgs of the sick may be
greatly ameliorated.
BACK TO THE LANDING.
Having partaken Of the hospitality of the
regimental officers of the 18th two days and