The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-08

last relating the appointment OF commissioners TO visit
sick soldiers from Vermont the United States service to min
lister their comfort and recovery and procure at the expense
of the State the of such of them Vermont fur
ough as might thereby the estimation of the Commissioners
be more speedily restored health could be fully carried
practice nasmuch they conicted respects with the
rules and regulations governing the service The system of
granting roughs had been extensively pacced until the War
Department finding by experience that large numbers of the
thus INDUCED did the service and that the army
being depleted rapid and alarming rate felt compelled
issue stringent orders dcontnung the practice The author
tiles Washington therefore declined to allow disabled
to be sent to Vermont urough but expressed willingness
fill the Hospitals then in the Sate-keepmg the Hospitals and
men, however, strictly under the control of the Government and
subject to the army rules.
After considering the matter its various bearings
the conclusion that the best thing practicable be done for the
benefit of sick and wounded soldiers arrange for their
transfer Hospitals Vermont There then Hospitals
in the State Burlington superior edfce capable of ac-
commodang about hundred men, and one at Batteboo OF
about equal capacity But these accommodations not sut
cen for the of all soldiers who would be proper
subjects for transfer to the State An therefore made
to induce the authorities Washington order the enlargement
of these two Hospitals the requisite capacity but this de-
cned the ground that the Cove mment had already incurred
the expense of providing the seat of all the hospital
accommodations which the army required.
1t then proposed the Secretary of War; that with his
permission and the cheapest available the State for
increasing its hospital accommodations the State authorities
would sufficient number of the Government baack
buildings Braeboro with the United States Hospital already
there make the establishment whole large enough for
the treatment of from four hundred five hundred men, and fit
the buildings up suitably for hospital purposes at the expense OF
the State provided the authorities Washington would order
the transfer the sick and wounded Vermont soldiers to the
State for further Hospital treatment adding the remark
that it thought that the change pure mountain
air and would alone contribute to the of enough
of men, and the restoration of all durable cases
enough the service than could be accomplished
Southern ATTITUDES to warrant the Government in the
expense of transporting them and from the State To
this proposition the Secretary of War assented with the p
uatons however, that the Hospitals and be strictly
under the control and management of the Government and sub
ec the rules of the Army that only such soldiers had al
ready been placed General Hospitals should be taken that
Commissioners of the State might visit the United States Gener-
a Hospitals to find and report them the Surgeon
General who would thereupon order the transfer of all thus
ported who judged be proper be sent to the State
for further treatment but that far attached their
mands the field yet have been General Hos
pitfalls not be taken the requirements of the service would
not permit the interference of State agents with the army the
field.
The uaemaster General of the State directed make
these enrgemens and improvements and pay the expense there
of of the funds that had accrued the State his Depart
men from the subsstng of troops while regmental rende
in the State last year. The buildings accordingly
moved the Hospital and fitted up cheap but and
Portable style expense of about thousand dollars the
details of which may be found in the Annual Report of the
Quareraster General which Report reference respectfully
made
The ladies Of Vermont very promptly and literally supplied
the hospital outfit for the additional wards thus provided
Hon. D. L. Lyman and Mr.. f. F. Hobrook appointed
Commissioners the United States General Hospitals
and near Washington in Virginia Maryland Pennsyvan and
New York. to look up Vermont soldiers therein report them
the Surgeon Generals Office in Washington and procure their
transfer with the previous understanding that the thus
ported would be transferred excepting only such the opn
ion of the Surgeons charge of these Hospitals could bear
the journey Vermont and such would get we'll in two or