Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-04-11
For the Pomeroy Weekly Telegraph
"Sanitary Commission"

For the pomeroy Weekly Telegraph.
s'Sanitary Commission"
iGr. Ethtor:-Perhaps a few extracts
from some of our leading papers, show
ing the suffering and want Of our sick
soldiers, in consequence of the INSULT
,cieut hospital supplies, may not come
aniss at this time. There have been
many touching appeals, one Of them
having been made by Mrs. ?. \. Bos-
we'll, President of Uncle Sans Daugh-
ters,'' in Palmyra, Missouri, to the
Indies of Cincinnati, in January last
She says: Il mean to speak Of the con-.
dtion Of our Federal troops. Many Of
them, by hardships, are now prostrated
witnesses new ones added to their mum
Der, and every now and then that num-
Der is greatly augmented by the.
wounded aud dying, who are brought
in from the battle fields, all of them in
a suffering condition, and up to the
| present time, cro,edea into small roon,s,
teithogt one comfort to cheer them IN a
trying hom-no beds, JM a handful Of
stra.c spread upon the floor, no pillo1rs
but Mcie hnaps:'chs, and nothing to cover
than 6utu single Llanket. My heart bleeds
at the thought, while | relate the facts
| The good lady also says: 81 will simply
add ! at of articles that are needed
beds or bed-ticks, pillow cases, com
! forts, blankets, sheets, shirts, drawers,
dressing gowns, mittens, socks, mocea
sins, pocket-ha ndkerchicfs, bandages,
rolls of old linen, lint, &c. All such
things will be thankfully received, not
only by the Com mission, but by the
poor soldiers, and as he breaths forth
silent prayer to God, the giver of all
his blessings, the doner will not be for
| gotten. Were you to visit the Hospital
and witness the gratitude that seems to
beam from every eye as you enter the
sick rooms, and know, like ourselves,
you would feel doubly compensated for
your labor
Palmyra was not alone A letter
written later from Sedalia, Mo, to the
st. Louis Democrat, says:
"The Hospital is a two story frame
building, having four rooms occupied
by patients, these rooms being about
ten feet by twelve. In three of them
only by the passage through it, of a
small stove pipe from the room below
There were thirty-three patients in
these rooms, all huddled into three Of
them. Some of the men were lying on
cots, or roughly constructed hunks, with
cross stats at the bottom, partially
/ covered with straw, and having
the appearance of being rolled Oh
for weeks or months. On one of
these hunks, and across its Stats, lay a
poor sick man, with nothing whatever
under him save blanket, and with
nothing over him save his every day
clothing-and this, on one Of the cold
est nights Of the present winter. In
the chamber above this, lay in one cor
ner dead man; at his feet, two or three
in different stages of disease, and around
the room several others on cots as
closely as they could we'll be packed,
two or three of whom were apparently
passing away, through the slow, but
deadly nervous process of typhoid fever.
In the opposite chamber lay those
sick with the measles, with little loose
straw under them and a few blankets
over them"
The Gin. Times says: This sad state
of things was not confined to Missouri
In Kentucky, when the advance lay at
Camp Nevia, the mortality was dread
! full, and sickness was almost equivalent
to death, until the agents Of the Saui-
tary Commission ministered to the pros
trated soldiers.
After Gen. Buell. had reached Nash
vile, with a portion of his army
stretched along the road from Green
River to that point, hospital was es-
tablishel at Bowling Green. Mr..