St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1863-09-17

plete in as far as laborers: were concerned:
They would receive any amount Of contri-
buttons in stores and money, but their Of
6cers, agents and distributors of every clhss
are employed At liberal salaries and gra.
tuitous services are not in the programme.
So I settled down to ,catt, % labor was
not supplied. = " y:a. 49,: +. p .@.,~,.
., For some days after the battle-thc
hist Of fredericksburg. I Was kept in my
room by illness. When the wounded were
brought up and the list Of names appear
ed, Mrs. K---- found the name of d
friend in the 5th Wis, amongst those Ia,
ken to c.. She proposed We rheuad
go 10 visit him, bur It was Sabbath and
the street cars were not ranning. Could
/ possibly walk the dstsnce? Aflc, put
ting on and taking of my bonnet several
times 1 concluded to try, and went -
While waiting IN the Office for my friends
to look over the books and find in which
wa7d lay their friend, inquired Of the
officers for work, but Lille the poor prodi-
ssl hunting husks; 80 hnrn gave nc
any," Once in the wards soon noticed
that almost every face Of fhe sufferers on
the beds frightened at the sound of few
words of interest in their welfare. In one
ward lay a man, apparently dead. He
had had one les amputated that day, mid
way abo'e the knee, and was not yet from
under the influence of. chloroform. The
other ls had been taken, off below the
toee, sott'e days, previous. This was J..
sh1fe Of Allegheny City, and there was
nothing any oAe; could do for. him. His
table was loaded with untasted dclieacies
and nurse sat tanning him. OF all the
lons, qe' rows Of beds almost every one had
Wounded men. Some Of them were fright
-fsl, and I:&alkea almost as useless as a
chip on stream. There were none there
from our Minnesota Regiment, and l took
pains to hunt up those from Wisconsin.
Of one of these, Robert Bride, / inquired
before leaving if there was anything 1
could do for him. After some hesitation
he replied, timidy,
."Well, nothing, we arc very we'll taken
care Of and I don't know anything you
could do unless-to bring US something to
quench thirst"
A'Somcthins to quench thirst? Why,
do you not have everything you wish 2"
"Oh, we get what is very good, but it
gets very warm in here in the afternoons
and we cannot get out in the shade. We
drink so much water it does not agree
with US and if we had somethi 70 sour to
drink or some kind of fruit it would taste
very good r.: -" :.-
"Rut, will the surgeons permit NE to
bring yod anythins3 / have understood
they would not
"Well, l'sec people bringing il things,
oranges, lemons, apples and the like and
giving them to the men and no one ob-
jects, aud VIC send out to the suffers and
buy, but most of us lost our money on the
field, and"
But never mind, here was work. Mex
morning wrote note to the New York
Tribune stating this circumstance and my
determination to spend the afternoons in
giving cooling drinks if I could get the
means. That day Miss NJ niece
of Judge Mot Burlington, Iowa, and
myself bought what lemons and sugar w
could and went, at noon, to give these he
! roes drink -tnost Of them were Sedxwick' (
men and should have deemed it great
privilege to be allowed to go, on my knees
il necessary, to have washed and bound
up the wounded, fostering feet which, in
health had charged up Mayors hill. tt
avoid giving trouble to attendants and Sc
being expelled as nuisance We hat
squeezed out the juice Of the lemons, mix
ed it with the sugar and taken glass
for from this hospital, in particular, wo
men, as nurses, have always been rigidl,
; excluded, and J.. expected to be ordered
off. .I,,.,,.,..,, "a:
She soon began writing letters for thu
disabled men while 1 went round Will
drink trying, my very best, to. s.y's some
thing suitable and q! pleasant to each one
Very soon a nurse offered ne the Use Of 4
/ pitcher to save the many. steps necessar!
in running to the water cooler for ,eael
glass J; aud, when about done;1 came int.
] The ward where Mr.. Snare iay:4 The nur
aes vcro drnssss;;nluo, ;his thiuh9 stilI,Y: anf