Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-11-26

chat what she said was not being recorded, she
beekfne more ffank, The, following ID smear
ths remainder other remarks A. memory vill
'%f lave seen serribIssi itbiogs down among
those hospitl lls-- -thlpgs much worye than I ever
th61ght Gould ex'st. j have been In the hos.
pltals at vicksburg, when the pAtlents could
not get anything, /, aud could not go 10 sleep the
whole night FOR the noise made BY the officers,
Those OH icers and the Surgeons. would get to
ssther In thsb hospitals, opsn The cAsss, piaT
cards, drink up the vine, and get 20 sh sms
fully drunk .as 70 lie down on tbe fo9r of the
hospitals They would make away with What
tfsssinte1dsd nor the soldiefs, and b shavs 10
ths most shameful ,nlAhner.g .ge Tbtre sas very
little chance of a soldier getting. ihi0gs, aud
then those ladie, who came doWo to see them, !,
The poor feliows called Yaucy Isdles!' They
would come ip and walk thr ough the wards AID
say, 'Oh dear, wba. pity. how horribiep but
Dsver itttheir hsuds 70 help one Of the suffer-
ers Tho boys would sometimes burst out CRY.
ing sitter they had been through and cay, 'DJnt
let any more Of those fancy nhrses CONS here .
! tell you ussd to get sick ofeesipg them my
self. 7'p' sac y sp'H ,9o o. fas ssrteI" g1i
81 had swo some Ia the amy. odsisuow in
company K1eth Wise e,bsin regiment; she othsr
was:in company *, 18th Iowa, aud no y, lies 10
the 81, Louis buying grouod Iasns down 10
the erny 10 Visit my husbabd who Was sick -
He died, and | stsid there 90 nor 9 | arrived
10 Chicag0about 4 O'Clock y estsrdsy {Thurs-
day ,sol was out of fuads, and #eni TO a cheap
hotel Wens to two or three places, and at
last was sen, to the Soldiers Home; they we're
n 1t at &c t willing 70 receive me, but ut lsst
consented that sholld s,ay Euight. then
went 10 the morning to the. SAINT Hy Commits
lat4 tkav l.A
hing was sick, aud my little boy vas sick,
or should not have asked them for cent;
W,uid have gone to come place aud worked for
money TO pay my passage bone. have worked
among tbe soldiers Tor ore ttal year, have
had my clothes all burned, have laid oui ever
500 Of my owl money to buy things for The poor
soltiers, which they otherwise would never bAve
got, yet 4 bad to beg before i could get enough
60 carry me 10, La Crosse Az lset they gave
me letter to the Superintendent oil the North
western Rail old tor q pass TO Minnesota juno.
tion, and I've dollars for may are beJo Joid that.
lam 90 week d at l c3n scafely stand. Ibave
had the ermittebt fever and chronic diarrh pa
for some time, sn1 shuuld not have come home
| II bad been able 10 stay thee"
The widos's melancholy story closed htrs,-
glg conveying far more than it expressed. Ii
was MOI stated by her that the miserable pit
tauoe dolsd ont to her In the rooms OF the San
ltary Commission was given only on condition
that sls should net reveal what abe knew of
hospItsl practice, but no ons who had heard the
tones In which her replies were couohed could
hesitate to believe that Is was so, nor fall TO
perceive that gross mismansgemeDt and high
sbuse Of the generosity Of the people are to be
foutd In the agencies Of the Sani -ary Commis-
si0n--s purifying ulcer which fer theis lives
these pstsoos dare not permit 70 be prdbed."