Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-06-16
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To Dr. " A. G1rringon, Asdieal Director for the Dpart
SR R.-Whe your high official position would deter. the
necessary responsibilities of your station induce me
make lew suggestions partly by way Of inquiry The
presumption is that in oil your official conduct you are ac
tuted by pure and patriotic motive TO dispense the grea
least with much sympathy for the sick and wounded
soldiers. who have stood wall of fire between YOU and
your enemies as your public duties and due regard " the
service of which you are important Official will admit
That you are subordinate in your position some a-
thorty in the government is presumabie though not like
y to be inferred RnecsssGri by Others in an interview
for the General Orders respecting and transfers
Of the wounded soldiers But yon wiFalIow me- will
ask t has never occurred to you that there is dis
tHcon between rule established by General Order and
lis exceptions? Was evernended by the Adjutsut and
Inspector General that these General Orders should apply
TO every case under all circumstances? Or do YOU think
that exception to general rule violates the order and
that thereby it falls to the ground?
If this is your opinion then you least have this much
as defence for your official conduct
Can you give no better for declining to transfer
party Of wounded from the crowded wards of the hospital
at Richmond (when asked for officially to hospitals in
Carolina accessible to their friends and surrounded
by superior comforts than that there are 5000 empty
beds in this department?"
Your refusal cannot be account of any fear on your
part or on the part of the General commanding the depart
ment to whom you look for Instructions that these men
would not promptly return-fOr they would still be
much under the control of Confederate Surgeons they
here, and quite accessible to their regiments
Lynchburg whittier you have sent many of them unsoc
ted and contrary to their wishes. Or do you, like
other ocaL parake of hatred and prejudice towards
that patriotic old STATE which has always been in front of
the bstt lie and in of justice and official favor?
None who have shared With her in their persons,
the dangers of the field have withheld from her just
credit for her gaantry But some shade officials command
ing departments and mercenary newspapers such the
EHYuire have cast mputations upon her loyalty. With
only such exceptions these the gaanry and daring of
her soldiers challenge the admiration of the world.
The bones of her best citizens have bleached and their
blood has enriched every battlefield from Bethel to Chan
cellorsville. ..tz. ..-.-
They have every where in common with other gallant
spirits broken the ranks of the enemy and led the way
victory crowdng the road to death if it had beeu the
highway to fesvity and mirth And now, when they
by the thousand they crowded together in
hospitals such the Sd division of Winde with not even
the privilege of having Surgeon from their own State to
look after aud for them. And that too in direct
contravenou Of the law of Congress- approved September
27h 1862 providing for and declaring that the hospitals
shall be sub divided among the States aud that they sdH
be knoVH and numbered hospitals Of particular State"
Here lies greatest complaint Although this is the law
of the land yet officials who are always ready to insist
that others shall be obeden do not execute i'll How do
you avoid itr Where your obligations? Are you
vgsnt to that this law executed you are carry
General Orders Ver61tim ct kterdti ct punctuGti2
1t is true that under the administration OF that excellent
officer Dr. Gaard, eight hospitals, VIZ: Nos. TO- 81 D.
2S "a 25 &C. the Sd divisions of Chmborazo and Wnder
with capacity of a35 beds assigned to NOrthCar
olus Sut what has been done since? What is the eond
ton Of affairs now3 NorthCaroniaRs, instead of being
allowed to occupy these hospitals exclusively and placid
under The care Of Surgeons from their STATE VINO have
sympathies in common with their unfortunate patients
cordng the provisions of the of Congress- are
tered throughout every hospital in the city Why is this
You are the medical director Why are our oDa hosPit
als-I those noinslly assigned the Stae-fed with
patients from other States receiving and enjoying
State patronage GHd STATE bOuntyf Why not Surgeons
from assigned to the treatment and Of
North Caroniausf There is but Surgeon and one
Assistant in that position in the city OF several Others
however not from the State North harolina is satisfied
and Justly proud Our chief of complaint is at in
der The number of sick and wounded in Richmond from
North Carolina approxmates $500. of whom only about
800 in the hospitals uomiual assigned the State
This is matter Of great interest to In view of the
act of Congress the Sas Of North has apprOpra
ted annually the benefit OF the sick and wound
ed Bow it be properly distributed under your arrange
meats? -, s11 - - -
She is constantly sending clothing and supplies the dis
ributiou Of which is attended with the difficulty
Other States receying these benefits from her bounty
the exclusion OF her own soldiers simply because the
law Of Congress has not been executed. -. : : :.
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