Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-08-07
SOLDIERS AID SOCIETY.

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95 BANK STREET, CLEVELAND, August s, 1868.
We have this week to report a shipment
made to Louisville, August 9th, comprIs-
ing 100 quilts, 1O7 bedticks, l75 pillows,
$50 pillow cases, 587 sheets, 898 shirts,
S54 pairs drawers, S5 dressing-goWns, 2I
coats and vests, 1O43 towels and handker-
chiefs, 500 pairs sscks, 80 pairs slippers,
S46 lbs. old linen, &C., 700 cans extract of
beef, ass cans fruit $3.50 lbs. dried fruit
2S4 lbs. groceries, 1876 bottles wine, &c,
kegs pickles, besides a variety of unclassi-
fed articles. These goods are to be for
warded to the Army of the Cumberland,
and in making out this shipment we have
entirely exhausted our stock. Our rooms
are now empty, and our receiving cases
are ready for all that our kind friends will
send.
Doubtless this simple announcement of
our wants will suffice to stimulate the gen
erOsity of our contributors, always SO ready
to act upon any suggestion, and never
needing to be urged to diligence in good
works. All articles of hospital bedding
and clothing are in constant demand.
There is no danger of too great an accumu-
lation of these, and without making con-
tinued calls, We hope always to receive
shirts, drawers, socks, sheets, quilts, pill
lows and ticks.
Dried fruits, pickles and sauer kroutare
placed first upon our list of much needed
supplies. We hope each housekeeper viii
remember the claims of the soldier ss she
prepares the stock of fruit for her own
family.
Blackberries prepsred in jam, VINE, cor
dial, or simply dried, are eagerly sought
for by all who have the charge of our mil
itary hospitals. This fruit is said to have
medicinal virtues peculiarly suited to the
diseases prevalent among our soldiers, and
we hope there may be in every township
and village volunteer regiment" of
boys and girls to pick the berries which
the ladies Of the Aid societies will gladly
prepare for hospital use So many patri-
otic little children are daily asking us
what can we do for the soldiers?' that
they will surely thanh us for pointing out
to them this way of making their busy
fingers ser5iceable in the good cause.
Nu-dber six of the Sanitary Reporter y
iii be mailed to our Branch societies next
week. We beg it may be read aloud at the
meetings of each society. The present
number contains interesting reports from
the field of Gettysburg, from Vicksburg
and other points in the department Of the
Tennessee, from the Army of the Cumher-
land, and from the Department of the Gulf
now added to the cares of the Western De-
pa7tment of the Sanitary Commission, by
the opening of the Mississippi. We intend
that each of our contributing societies
shall have a copy of the "RepOrter semi
monthly. If any are omitted they will
please notify us of the fact at once.
All news of the condition of the Gettys-
burg wounded is eagerly Fought for, and
the appended letter from gentleman who
has lately returned from weeks labor
among the hospitals there will be read
with much interest.
PITTsBURGH, Pa, July %, 1868,
PRESIDENT SOLDIERS AID SOCIETY:
DEAR MADAME:-I- have been requested
to inform you that the boxes of stores for
warded by your Society to US for the re-
lief Of the wounded ct Gettysburg were
sent in due season last week with other
goods we we're shipping to Harrisburg.
In that city the Commission has depot
under the charge Of an inspector, DR..
Swain, and we made the special request
Of him that these boxes should be forward
ed to their destination without delay.
returned last Tuesday to this city from
Gettysburg, where l spent ten days labor
ing in connection with the Commission.
During the first week after the battle,
there was great need of all kinds of stores,
but as soon as the railroad communication
was opened, supplies poured N in great
abundance, and the wounded were carried
away as rapidly as the capacity of the
railroad would permit. The Sanitary
Commission had several wagon loads of
goods on the field, and pushed other ship
ments as rapidly as possible forward from
Baltimore. When the cars began to run,
we received abundance Of every thing, and
in week or ten days we we're obliged to
request the friends in Baltimore to cease
sending for the present. The goods were
distributed in the most judicious manner,
and thousands of poor fellows, young and
old, rebel and Union, have reason to thank
the benefeence Of the people.
But about three thousand wounded are
now remaining at Gettysburg, and they
will be kept there in General Hospital
for the summer. The rest of the sufferers
have been removed TO Baltimore, Phila-
delphia, and to other points.
Yours, with great respect,
JOSEPH SHIPPEN.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.