The New York herald., 1863-12-29

gaged sreocw IA active service epeherc reports
have not been made There fifteen hundred wounded
IN general hospitals 10 Chattanooga AL doing extremely
well The arrangement aud management, Of these hospi
tails are highly praised BY Surgeon General Hammond
and Medical Inspector Vaiun who were bers on tour
OF inspection A visit hospital "operations'
are all nnished aud the patients lie costly In their cots
along the walls, Is entertaining and amusing Men with
bullet Scared countenAnces smile as pleasantly at wei
visitors they possibly could before thor beauty
was marred In the glorious cause. and men with ban
Gagged stumps OF limbs howl bosterously under
the infection the jokes which burden the
they did under the surgeons knife Union and rebel
ranged In clean little cots along the walls alternately
and their condition has brought them TO be friends
single plug and the same pipe cement the good feeling.
A little while after discovered that dead
lying unburied tho field OF Chicksmauga cooness
might have boon noticed existing between them but
has been decided that the cases OF babarty"
the old battle field not attributable aoeether to
the nhumany Of the rebels but rather TO their lack OF
energy in buryiDg dead deep eoough the entente
dale has been reestablished From contemplation OF
the wounded In hospital the transition rs easy tn
thoughts OF the grave general order has estabshed
the
CHATTANOOGA UNITED srA.Fs crmrrzaY.
to the end that soldier who has given his life 70 his
country n this part Of Tennessee may be properly 10
terred that his grave may be deutded by has friends
and full mcrtuary record be preserved The burial
ground selected Is TO be laid of sections oanh section
10 be numbered and TO contain thousand persons
Commencing a. the northwest zach section each
and furnished vtha hesdboayd. with the number upSn
it, The dimensions and postti0h oe each section WIZ 10
made and many copies printed there graves In
the cemetery. Whenever the body OF soldier Is laid
to rest in the cemetery card will be fastened to the lid
OF tho CONN, giving the name rank, company and reg
ment Of the decoased his residence bcfore enlistment,
the time and OF his DEATH and such facts relative
to his service would be OF Interest 10 his friends or Of
historic yaue, and copy OF the ,nformaion and the
card viii be made 10 book for the purpose kept by the
post Copies OF the plan Of the cemetery
with the location Of the grave marked will be forwarded
a once 10 the nearest relatives or any soldier who may
be buried therein Some I've hundred bodies have been
buried in the cemetery already; but understand
tho location win be changed before further intermens
made Rev. Thomas B,van Horne has supervision OF
the cemetery. Sergeant Seth Weeks, Company d. One
Hundred and Sixth Ohio Volunteer infantry s SEXTON
PERSONALS.
Major General Palmer, who resigned the command OF
the Fourteenth corps and left the department upon the
acceptance OF his resignation, has returned 10 Chatta
noOga. General Palmer Is popular commander, aud
there universal expression OF qualification ut the sud
den turn Of affairs which brought him TO Chattanooga
again. In the for successor 10 Palmer as CON-
mandantof the Fourteenth corps Major General r. Il.
Sheridan's name was brought prominently forward
Major General J. J. Reynolds Chief ofStaG to General
Thomas left the department several days since 70 take
w. ID. Whipple succeeds him.
Major General Dan Buttereld has gone East on leave
OF absence
General Sherman arrived In town to-day. Major Gene
ral Joe Hooker visits headquarters frequently. General
Logan is at Bridgeport.
Last night visited by severe thunder storm
a. have witnessed The effect OF rains which are
reported up tho country has been to raise tho river
much that boats will be despatched to Knoxville tonight
with supplies. Boats a. far as lolton: thence
shipments are made by rail to Knoxville