Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-08-09
Mrs. wheeler 10 a Lady of Ashtabula.
WASHINGTON, July 20.

Ny Dear .uss. G.:
The contents of those barrels have been
distributed and carried comfort aud cheer TO
mole than Que sad heart. You little imagine
the gratitude of those poor fellows on beiLg told
these things-such and such ones-came from
Ashtabua, Austinburg or Jefferson. Shirts,
sheets, piow-cases, handkerchiefs, all were so
much needed l went to the Cliifburn, where
some seventy Ohio soldiers are, and passed
from bed to bed-some lying on wooden blank
cts with hard pillows, without cases others,
sheets and pillows perfectly black, slipped them
off, replacing them with yours, fresh, soft, and
clean, and such grateful looks aud expressions
God bless you lady, aud those who sent US
these" heard from many lip. Then the luxu'
ry Of clean, half-worn shirt in place OF black,
coarse filthy garment oltentimes worn two or
three weeks and sometimes matted with the
discharges of halfhealed wounds But few OF
the hospitals receiv anything save common ar
my rations, unless supplied with luxurics from
outsiders Those 10 the city are far better car
ed for than those few miles out. There has
been marked change since l came. Union
ladies now interest themselves for the city hos
pitals. But few extend their charities beyoud
; the city.
Sabbath day Mr. w. and myself took car
I rage aud loaded it with hospital comforts, and
took the boat for Aexard;ia expecting to hnd
Gen. Tylers brigade. had heard there we're
/. mauy sick in the Military Hospital. They, how
ever. were gone to join Pope. We then started
for Fairfax Seminary, where the sick had beer
sent. We found 200 sick and wounded, anC
four surgeons in charge! DR.. Smith told u
he had repeatedly sent to the Surgeon General
Q for help, and once called on him in person, but
with ut effect. The wards are cared for By
the common soldiers, detailed as nurses, and DO
= female about the place. The men looked
\ neglected and filthy, and it would have touches
u your heart TO have seen the poor, limping con
E- valesccnts follow me, and hear their grateiu
/ appreciation of every little comfort received
carried oranges, lemons, four caus of fruit iron
IS your ladies' and other things purchased with
q portion Of the money so generously cent me D.
the ladies of Jefferson. OF these l,2OO mer
no one of even the sckest OF them had taste
= vegetable Of any kind. Meat and bread, Tel
~ aud coffee, no butter nor fruit Of any kind Ou
D. markets 10 the mean time, abound wit irui
I'd You can judge whether the canned fruit unde
as these circumstances was needed. Had 90
et sheets and as many pillow slips aud handkeI
III chiefs, would go there again tomorrow an
Ia distribute as needed. One poor fellow, Woune
of ed, but conyalescent, in an attempt to go do"
stairs had fallen aud broken his leg week ag
and it had not yet been set Two poor iello"
at one from Warren, and the other from Portag
10 county were very low FROM typhoid fever. The
es were both delrious, and each thought me b
"a mother. One rose, determined 70 go with m
/. insisting that had come to, take him home
n shall go again this week to Fairfax, and propoi
= taking two bushels Of blAckberries and suga
enough for all the Ohio men, many more,
- far as they will go. l shah also get box
u oranges apd lemons. con only say to. the /
~ dies. may God bless the kind hearts who sen
ur the meaos Tor proegiug and bestOwisg sl.e
comforts.