Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-05-02
SOLDIERS AID SOCIETY,
IS BAxK STREET, CLEVELAND,
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down by C. c. s. C. R. R. IN Wednesday
April 10Th. The contents we're as
follows: $50 quilts, 80 bed-ticks, 12S pill
lows, 1856 pillow cases, 948 shirts, 781 pairs
drawers, "a dressing gowns, 1876 pairs
seeks, 70 pairs slippers, $40 cans fruit,
2,4OO lbs dried fruit 500 lbs light grocer
les, 46 lbs cheese, 90 bottles wine, 1876
bushels green apples and vegetables, %
kegs and barrels cider, vinegar and pick
les, 1873 dozen eggs.
These goods go direct to Louisville, and
will there be divided to let the wants
of the Army Of the Cumberland, and the
forces near Vieksburg.
We have of late been publishing the
most earnest appeals for vegetables, eggs
and pickles, and for all articles of diet cal
culsted to stay the progress of the diseases
that are beginning to appear in our ar
mics. 1t is the design of the Sanitary
Commission to forward from its central
depot at Louisville, one hundred barrels
vegetables daily, and this has been done for
some weeks past; and we would bespeak
the generosity of our farmers, in cOntinu-
n c Of this work.
By telegraph from Nashville, April
29th, We learn that the steamer Imperial
had arrived there with 700 packages sani-
tary stores, mostly vegetables and acid
food, including a large part Of u ship
ments during the month of April. Thus
the pressing want is somewhat relieTedi
but we should remember that sven now
as we are rejoicing over the safe receipt
of SO generous a supply, every package
has undoubtedly been distributed, and in
q few days the calls that come up from that
quarter will be as urgent as before.
From the following letters Of Mrs. Hop
kins we draw additional testimony to the
great scarcity Of the above mentioned ar
t%icles, and to the pressing nature Of the
demand for them:
LETTER FROM R DR.. HoPKISs
NASHVILLE, April 18th, 1865.
DEAR FRIENDS OF THE AID RooMs.-We
have constant calls for vegetables, butter,
eggs, pickles, Sc. Nearly all the hospitals
| here have q fund with which they could
partially supply themselves with these
| things from the commissaries, but they
| have none and cannot get them. 1 will
/ copv a reouisition that l filed this morn
ing, that you may see how little we can
rive TO each hospital. "Hospital No. 4,
having $50 patients-l barrel potatoes,
/ barrel onions, 100 lbs dried apples
This is q small allowance for the number OF
patients, but if we gave any more they
would not 60 around.
We have messing with US now DR.. Ham
ilton, Medical Inspector for the Army OF
the Cumberland. He says every bushel OF
potatoes the army gets now is "worth a
man" Think Of that you at the North
who nave plenty and to spare, and judge
what are the needs CT the men who have
left their homes and friends to defend the
old fagI
DR.. Salter, formerly of the Ohio 18th.
was here about ten days ago to get some
comforts for his men. They we're located
at Carthage, up the Cumberland, and dare
not bring their sick here for fear of guer.
rillas. They improvised q gunbOat with
bales Of hay, and CAM here for supplies
They said they did not know but they
might be "gobbIed up on their return.
Last Saturday DR.. Harlow Of the lI3tf
Ohio, came for supplies. The regiment Il
at or near Franklin We were very shorI
lust then and could not furnish him 81
much as we would have liked. Do SEND
eggs-all you possibly can-they will
come best packed in kegs. OF butter VI
can never get half what we ought to have
= 3 > have no doubt but the nurse!
and others connected with the hospital ge
some portion of the Sanitary supplies
and for my part 1 hope they do, for i
they do not deserve them, who does? Be
sides, nearly all of the employees abou
these hospitals are convalescent soldiers
and they are those of sill others who car
eat the nieeties with IMMUNITY. 1 think l
any of us employed q nurse to take cart
of the sick in our own families we SHOULD
provide delicaeies now and then for hin
if we could get them.
Some one will say nurses are paid anC
they can buy"-but whoever says that hal
no idea of the prices wherever the army is
nor the small supply even at the eEorbl
tant rates.
This minute a servant from the officers
hospital has come in for a can Of tomatoe
for a sick Lieutenant-they cannot ge
any in town. Now would you have m
say fNo-this sick man has large pay
he should buy what he wants ?" If yol
would, YOU must recall me and put IN m!
Mace some one who feels differently fTOu
me. III I am here, [ shall give, wit
the. advice of those with whom l work
when stores are needed, and shall endeav
or to take proper care of things ent t
this depot, keeping watch that nothing /
wasted, and whenever there are signs o
fermentation or decay will look to it a
once.
A box Of lemons came a few days sine
and by opening, wiping and re-rolling il
papers th~ree-fourths of them were saved
when without care all would soon hsv
spoiled.
Yesterday four barrels of green apple
came. They we're assorted, and half o
them found perfectly good, while the.Other
were sent to the nearest hospital wher,
|, thew will be used Immediately. l thin
f you can judge something of my work b,
the above description.
|, Yours Truly, PAMELA B. HOPKINS.
U. s. SANITARY COMMISSION,
NASHVILLE, April q, 1863.
l My DEAR FRIENDS - have only tim
to say show do you do2" tonight. Sine,
| writing you last, we have been very bus.
receiving and distributing invaluabl
stores to the Army of the Cumberland
many of the men in the regiments no
; having receiveda single ration of yegeta
l bles in the last six or nine months. Nj
Robinson last week gave potatoes to on
! Michigan regiment who said their we.
men had not tasted any since last Decem
! Der, and they had been in Kentucky wher
! they Jared much better than they do i
front.
Potatoes, onions, d~ried-apples, andman
! good things in which the North abound
have been coming freely the past weel