The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1862-07-02

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,up.ds and long marches. He came to town
u.ider orders from the Medical Director of the
army (Fremonts) TO hasten forward medical
stores, and departed with them after few
hours larry here.
The sick and wounded in the Maine regi-
ments are now in the way of being well cared
for. AT a meeting of Maine residents in this
city, at which Your excellent Senator Fessen-
den presided, an organization was formed, to
attend sedulously to the condition of their
brave disabled fellow citizens in the war. Eff
ficient officers for this association have been
selected, and the work for which they are asso-
ciated.is going "bravely on
To see the poor fellows in the HOSPITALS pro-
vokes generous and manly tears. The wound
ed men are patient, so brave, SO cheerful
never bemoaning their fate, and all avowing
their readiness for the field SO soon as health
shall once more return.
In one Of the hospitals yesterday, 1 noticed a
boy of sixteen years, mot of your State)
wounded, it was thought, unto death, at the
battle Of Fair Oaks. A ball had passed direct
ly through his breast and came out the other
side. None thought at the time, that he could
live. Another bullet had crushed the bones of
his hand. Though pale, emaciated, weak to the
last degree, there are hopes of his recovery
He says he shall go back to his regiment as
soon as he gets well. God grant he may rejoin
them. Cases of recovery from such seemingly
fatal wounds are not rare. Mrs. Phelps, the
accomplished wife of Col. Phelps, who has so
long been in Congress from Missouri, mention
ed the case of a man similarly shot, at the bat
tie of Wilson's Greek, whose wound she dress
ed. She succeeded in stopping the internal
hemorrage, and after the terrible scenes she
saw in the rear of the battle line, she forgot
his face in the number of those to whom she
mnistered OH that bloody day.
Six weeks afterwards, the man came to her
house, with his wife and his six children. He
was perfectly recovered and altogether robust.
She did not recognize him, until he had ex-
planned that he was the soldier whose wound
she had dressed. The family staid all night,
and the next morning went on their way re-
jocing You will be pleased with the mention
of Mrs. Phelps, for the lady is Portland born.
lntO Tile tOWll III MissOufl. WueTe sHe HNcS-lt
contains two thousand inhabitants-there were
brought and cared for, three months last sum
mer, three thousand wounded men, mostly rebel
wounded, but partly Union troops. In this
scene of suffering, she visited the hospital daily,
and moreover constantly kept ten of the
patients at her own house-her instaIlment of
the wretchedness and the mercy-needng of
the time. Such it is to have war brought to
your own doors!
Among the real novelties, and in fact, al
most the only noticeable Improvement in
Washington, is clean, elegant hotel. Such
has Browns (now known as the Metropolitan
become under its new proprietor, Capt. Potts,
scrupulously clean in every department, fine
table, excellent chambers, and an accomplish
ed corps of attendants, make it decidedly equal
to any Of the famous northern hotels. 1t is
high-priced of course, and consequently fash
ionable. ID.