Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-05-21
Interesting Letter From DR.. Julian
(ConfRued.)

Captain. Regimental Doctor, Colonel &c
But lower officer says, cant do it. sir. ]
know my orders, and shall o5ey." The
higher and the lower law conflict. Again
we are to bringhome the horse and equip
ments of the lamented Major Edwards
and have en- order from Col. Beatty fol
his transportation. Boat Captain saws
"No. get an order from the Capt. of tn,
Landing" lie says, Can't give it-Gen
Halleck will" Its not the law. but Gus
tom, courtesy.
En- route for Head Quarters, we meet
Capt. E. Spear, Jr., just up from Paducal
wide awake, that he is on fighting
ground, and the afternoon before had !
chance 10 open his war dogs on some eb-
els along the river. Three prisoners and
a negro. lie has reported to Gen. Grants
Headquarters. Capt. in, SAYS, '.co tc
Gen. H." SO we go. Capt. there says.
you're in Gen. G's army, report there
Have done so, and are sent here" Re.
port again and they must report here in
writing. If a hundred thousand rebels
had lined the river, no doubt our Capt.
would have kept it from Gen. II. till red
tape rounds here gave through!
To me he says, mo law-no custom
might have to send a thousand home to-
morrow" So a boat hired by the day by
-
Gov. and with but two horses on board,
can't transport the horses. We finish up
our rounds. The rain comes in torrents,
and we canter up as the plank is being
withdrawn. but boatman waits, and we
pass unquestioned-no thanks to any one
save boatman, The day before. Burton
has gone to Savannah, and got Burnett on
his way home. DR.. l. has gone back to
Paducah. where he finds some of Capt.
Spears battery, only slightly i'll.
At Savannah, Major Hall gets aboard.
and soon comes two horsesl At Paducah
there is no boat for me, but Major II. and
Burton are kindly taken aboard the Ma
rengo by DR.. McCook. DR.. N. is genial,
and ready to aid you and give all the in
formation as to those on his boat, you de.
sire, which can't be said of some who had
charge of hospital boats. At Cairo and
Mound City, there is only a world of wa
ter, and poor, sick and wounded in the
hospitals. DR.. l is getting ready to start
home with 1t. McCleery, Fuller, Pierce
and Bennett. o. Haynes is content to
wait for his bullet hole inthelung to heal.
E. Cowdery of the 4lst also has to bide
the slow process of healing q wounded
foot. AT Evansville, Indiana, were three
hospitals-marine, and two others. We
find Robinson and Gray of Co. F, 9th o.,
wounded in arm and thigh; also Hanly
and Standire of the 4lst. Though not
from our county, we bring them home
They may have stopped bullets from those
nearer us, and in this war ''the whole con-
tinent is ours" or nothing. Sanitary
Committee of Evansville supply us with
clothing, mattresses and blankets. and a
train of some four or five hundred sick
and wounded, start on. At Vincennes
we are fed and treated with blackberry
cordial, most generously. At Louisville
| take my four wounded soldiers to the
Gait House. Willard has the string out
"a room to dress wounds-breakfast and
dinner for the boys free, and an anbu-
lance procured from the Medical Director
to take us to the ferry to Jacksonville.
where we take cars for Cincinnati. But
| have first run the rounds of four hospi-
tails. Hunter of the 18th battery is Sc
verely wounded in the hip, but bids fair
in time to recover Andrews, Kennedy
and Wilson of F, 9th, will be home soon,
though Wilson has a ball wound in his
head, which might easily have freed him
from further warfare. CThey got home
the 18th, looking tine.) John Masters of
c, 10Th, is in hospital No. 5, but we failed
to find it. Happily, he got home a week
At Cincinnati we find Rutan with the
buckshot through from behind the ear
forward and out of the side of the fore
head, doing well, and now at home. Aus
tin Lane is in the last stages of feve.-I
Sick before the battle, he yet goes into
the contest, and the exhaustion proved
more than he can withstand. From Fri
day till Monday We assist his father, who
is with him, as far as we can, but with lit |
tie hope of success. At Covington are
Ackly and Bowers, also of the 18th Bat
terry, doing well. At Camp Dennison, are
Peabody, shot through the lung, but like
ly to recover, and Burr, feeble from sick
ness, but improving, also the two CIRCUITS,
of the 18th Battery. Cutlerof C, 18th,
is wounded near the knee, but with fair
in time TO recover. Davis and
Talbitzer have friends already with them,
came home with me. Talbitzer is
lively and amusing with his stories, a sad
pity that he is to die so soon after he gets
nome. Brave old man, wounded in the
,houlder, he fights on till a broken she'll
'trikes him in the head. Capt. Stratton
helps him back, and offers to send his son
Ito care for whom the father had
.nlistedl to nurse him. mo, let Charles
Keep shooting, he'll do more good SOL
of the 4lst, is about ready TO
home.
We found rebel wounded in all the hos
'itals, and could tell at a glance, if they
rere at heart rebels, or rebels from poll
or from conscription. We think half
&c saw were of this last class. At Evans
lille, was one formerly of Kinsman, of
he I'd Texas, on a cot beside Gray of
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We brought home eight wounded and (