New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-01-23
TIE BFRDAN SHARPsHoorERs.

To me Edito, Of The " Tribune
SIR: My attention has inst been called TO a letter
in your paper yesterday from your Special Correspond
ent listed Jan. 5 snd entitled The Bedan SLarpshoo
ere A iIe officer Of h, corp hasus served saeh in
camp fsr nearly four months past. regard da,yto rep
In brief TO the painfully nse and defmaory statements ia
this letter. These statements principally comP''sd II
the following extract:
Wilhbe bolieyed that the regiments Of Bsrdsns
Sharp hoOtes near Wellington are td lying In camp
uusuppied with nla Sucn is tho case Wore ihsn nj.
j. doubtful they cen eve. be Drought 70 any Hesse
efficiency such Lsyoc have idcess, and sickness and t"e
demoTa4aon consequent tlereup3n nhde among the ofcf
and men. The Iauster.ols OF the regiments co,
about 800 Ofthese IN tie last three weeks 90 have
sick list Hardly the pretc.e Of dice pine pretorved On
ccrs have become dshesened and l. most Hkey
numbers Of them viii ds,eIt aud this openly SD IN
the camps they pas ont Of the lines with inpuuiy dsy
pass crcstt some officer il insists uponi. Absence
rom rol-ca AID parade pAsse. unHoced Ihe Dns Of
drilling are ito some extent ket up but there nc heart
IN It,"
A, TO the matter Of sihes win SPEAK presently.
to the sanitary condition Of the oop the statement Of
your correspondent. sTkingy essysgan and unfonded
or 800 mon, he e" "a have died within three weeks
and about 700 are the rerm.nts bo-ps. add on the sek
list" To prove you how far this is from the actual truth
present you the following facts In the Let Regiment we
have had from ls: occupation Of camp up 10 today
period Of nearly Ave monthseight deaths or these three
occurred before Jan and five since. Our sick list toby
and number about the the day Of the date Of
your correspondents etter-numbcs 81, OF these Is Only
are In The regiments hospitals the remainder their com.
pany quarters
Ia the "a Regiment the whole number Of de shs from the
beginning has been a. Tic Sck ist to-day numbers loa OF
these but q arc in the gegnents hospitals the remainder In
quarters
In reference the SICK ,, you will remark thai compare
lively small proportion are hospital And Of the
usuder thoge in qusrtsrsp large proportion only
little under the weather and ordered by the Surgeon to do
light duty" This morning in making his rounds the Sur
eeon of ~. 1t Regiment found necessary 60 visit but
twenty and Of these but tree he informed
were az consequence
Probably the actual number OF men in the regiments
pnt ON 10 spal diet will fuish the best estimate oil the
numbeT OF sick The number OF these about ninety
in all But considerable humber OF the pseas now IN hos
pts condition 10 return TO quarter. cured and will be
sent beck to their tents u tie weather Of present very
Indictment, will permit
Be.ide thoe sick at csup have sbol, Thirty five SICK
men Indians Hospital mostly GONZALES OF those
considerable proportion are taxing no medicine but quietly
themselves under favorable circumstances Il
If they remained in camp.
Men in camp are divided by their sanitary officer the
econ into rlEaesthOsc t end those unit for duty"
nus coui the ninety hospital diet no al WHO
unit for dniy IN camp with the tylvo IN the Cay iosp
s have an aggregate 81 one hundred 1nd oly
three Ia each regiment And tins IS not large
portion For 1t Il the testimony OF all Grny surgeons that
eighty sick in regiment Of thousand the ordniy average
IL viii thus be thar our regiments sie hc or no worse
on than many others eDcamped shout Warrington in this try
ing csprcous weather Of January Our surgeons haze
got the better Of the des4cr aud complaints incident 10
camp o and which Of course attached in turn and
there ths hot dangerously III among
al the scA Of the two regiments.
a. TO your pondeuts statements In reference 10 ouf
military discipline and general noyGe have only t. say that
tlry ny nisepresent the state ofthngs our camp We
are IN rood and Efficient VI discipline ard can ues
sna o. lef' arc ,ciy enforced senres receive particular
sieuton rom tie proper officer. fud giersy 10 gasd with
hoes without passi ana II 81, ely 70 h.
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