Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1862-04-25

superior to ours, being mostly composed
of riaed cannon. CA
Some accounts state that we had no
pickets out, and others that there were
pickcts ont about 200 rods. We had
5000 cavalry camped four miles from
the battle ground, towards Savannah ;
but they were able to take little part in
the action, the ground being thickly
wooded, with few clear spaces.
The Condition OF the wounded AFTER
the Battle of Pittsburg.
Invisible" the Pittsburg battle field
correspondent of the Cincinnati Times,
writes as follows:
CARE OF THE WOUNDED.
The horror Of horrors connected with
this battle is the treatment of the wound
ed. In the first place, there were poor
facilities here for treating them, and, in
the second place, there were not fifth
enough surgeons to attend them. would
gladly draw veil over the horrors on
this point, but duty to our gallant vol
unteers demands that the truth be told
shall at present relate only one fact.
A large number of tho wounded had
crawled or been carried to the bluff op-
posito the Landing on Sunday and Mon
day Some found the shelter Of tents,
but others lay out in the open air There
those men lay, without a surgeon or at
tendant, without mouthful to cat or
drink, until Wednesday morning.
: They groaned and died with no one
: near to pity them, and the dead and the
: dying lay there together. On Wednes-
day morning one surgeon was sent to
, them, and one attendant with hard crack
Q ers and water And that was their treat
D ment until they either died or were con.
veyed to one of the boats which presently
r came to the relief Of the wounded. An
eye witness, an intelligent officer, who
was with this one party of the wounded
r early Wednesday morning, says the scene
! was horrible, and he sat down and weep
J like a child.
: And yet Congress seems 10 think thu
: medical department of the army is al
right, and that the only reform require,
7 is to increase the rank Of several of tn,
! surgeons Of the regular army. and ad,
a a few more to its number and increas,
the force of hospital stewards. If spirit
Of the heroic dead could return to earth
the shades of the murdered wounded o
the battle of Pitisburg, should haunt thu
9 halls of Congress day and night. say
murdered, for with an efficient medica
department hundreds, who are now deaf
or will die, would have been saved t
their friends and their country.
! must say a word in behalf of the
surgeons here. They have generally la
bored like heroes, and many now arc
exhausted. If their number were tire.
bled, they would have been unequal tC
the task, the more especially as they had
very few facilities to operate with The
fault is with the Government The med
ical department of the army is half con.
fury behind the age, and in the hands oil
an official aristocracy that care no more
for the lives Of men than they do for
those Of hogs. God have mercy upon
them, for when the country is fully awak-
ened to the truth, the people will not.
At present--nearly week after the
battle--many of the wounded are not
fully cared for. They are lying about
in tents, upon straw, with no noursh-
J ment, and exposed to the weather Scy-
eral boat loads have been shipped away,
but still many, very many, are here. ]
now write in the cabin Of The Tycoon
with four rows oftbem in front Of me-
Our boat, the first one of the Cincin.
natl Sanitary Commission, arrived at
o'clock. BY eight o'clock her cabin, hel
guards and her decks were filled with thu
wounded. How thankful the poor fel
lows were, when laid on soft beds, be
tween clean sheets, and stimulated b,
noarishing Dict They forgot their pain
and their hurts, and laid down and sweet
|, ly slept. Why, in the name Of human
J ity, cannot the Government provide these
things? / think the boats which will
/ arrive tomorrow from Cincinnati and
other points, will take away all the
wounded who need hospital treatment
4. / IpuJ JuSIc arc hOuic WVuiupN ~HN ''~''J
r sick at Savannah, who ought to be at
once removed 10 point where they can
| receive decent treatment
RumOred Arrest Of Gen. Grant.
The Cairo correspondent Of the Pblla-
delphia Inquirer, under the head Of ga
, few plain facts" has the following;
Considerable satisfaction is express
ed here at tho rumored arrest Of General
u. S. Grant The tremendous gale
which be has had the misfortune to cause
in the West, mds iu fact, throughout the
Union, by his recent conduct, will not be
quieted until be is acquitted Of bis mill
tary misdeneanors by those whose duty
it is to enter into a rigid investigation Of
his late conduct. Wailing widows, father
less children aud an outraged army de-
nand it, All the putting dispatches ola
solf-siyled member Of bis staff who was
allowed 20 occupy the Government tele-
graph from Fort Henry two or three