Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-05-02

Just in time to help us fulfil the re-
quest of the Surgeon of Hospital No. Z.
GENERAL HosFIrAL No. 7,
LOUISVILLE, April 20, 1868. }
SECRETARY SOLDIERS AID SOCIETY,
CLEVELAND, OIL have just received
few copies Of a tract entitled "Uncondl-
tional Loyalty, " the tenor Of which every
soldier Of my acquaintance in this region
Of country most heartily agrees with
1 am much obliged to you for them. The
soldiers earnestly hope they may prove a
blessing to some milk and water patriots
at home, and prevent their becoming con-
6rmed Copperheads, for whom they CON
slider there is no hope, "neither IN this
world nor in the world to come"
Every article of reading matter comes
very acceptable to us, and the Surgeon In
charge wishes to solicit from your society a
donation Of miscellaneous books, papers,
magazines, etc. What we have, have been
read over so many times that the soldiers
have become tired Of them, and if you can
conveniently send us a box Of such read
ing matter as will be Of general interest or
amusement to the patients, you will confer
g great favor by relieving many a weary
and lonesome hour Of hospital life. We
have fitted up one building with two rooms,
for reading and smoking. Our library IS
small, and has been read over nearly as
many times as the checker-bosrd on the
table in the same room has been played
over.
Since your visit here, the hospital
arrangements have been much I'M
proved. All soldiers who are able, eat
their meals in the two large dining halls,
the tables of which are well supplied; we
have butter every day, stewed fruit several
| times q week, milk with tea and coffee al
Ways, and pickles of some kind nearly
every day. Two large kitchens supply
these halls, besides which we have a kltch-
en- which we call our "light diet kitchen"
which prepares food expressly for those
who are not able to leave their beds; out
of from six to seven hundred patients we
generally have about one hundred and fifty
on the Eight diet list; these have every deli
cacy the appetite Graves, subject to the di-
r~ections of the attending surgeons. Their
kitchen keeps q constant and full supply
Of canned tomatoes, fruits and jellys, with
chickens, oysters, oranges, lemons, &c.
We have had $50 secesh prisoners with US
for a short time, who seem very well salts
fed with their condition. The first day
after their arrival, on returning to their
quarters from the dining hall, two Of them
we're overheard in conversation as follows +:
i" Well, Jim, We live pretty well up here
among the Yankees, don't we ?"
ayes, they seem to have lots to eat and
that that's good toop
swell, I'll tell you what it is, ldon't be-
lieve they are anywhere arPIgysd Out, do
your"
0No, confound EN-, the war don't seem
to hurt EN- a bit"-
They have learned something already,
and will learn still more that will do
them good if they do not get too much en-
-couragement from their sympathizing
, friends in Indianapolis, where they are 60
ing. When they first came, a daughter of
Sidney johnson got inside the lines some
how, and made a bit Of a speech to a squad
of them: she told them their cause wass glo-
rious one-her father had lost his life in it,
but she did not regret the sacrifice. II
need be she was ready to give her own life
to the cause. She advised them TO pay nc
attention TO the talk of the Ysnkees-they
would pretend to be friendly to them, to
gain their confidence, while they mean
desolation, carnage and death. She was
sent away, and our good surgeon in charge
has been very careful ever since to keeI
that class of people outside.
Iremain, very respectfully, your obedi
ent servant. GEO. OCoNNOk.
The following named soldiers have beer
received and assisted at the Depot HOspi
tai during the week ending April2d, 1868
J.. McCafrey, Company H, 18th Ohio. From
, Tennessee to Toledo.
D. Dieter, CompanyK K, sOth Ohio. From Nash
} villa to Alliance.
l c. N. CART 18th o. v A. From Nashville t.
3 Hudson.
liam Brown, Richard Groves, George Watson
David c.. McCullom, John Williams, George w
Hill, E.G. Haseltine, G. W. Bailey, T, L, vii
liams, C. Lairler, John Foley, Carroll Smith, c
Faulkner and John Bates.
The above sixteen men we're on the Queen o
the West and escaped on bales Of cotton. Ate
. floating thirty miles down the Mississippi theI
! were taken prisoners paroled and sent TO New
, York. They are now on their way to JON tn
: J. Hanophy, Company A, IO5th Ohio. From
! Murfreesboro' to Youngstown, accompanied o!
! ]. S. Murdock, 4th Rhode Island Volunteers
From NeWbeTn to Louisville.
W. IngersOll, Company H, oath Michigan
From Washington to Detroit.
W. Thomas, It'll Michigan Cavalry. Same a
above.
P. clark, Company A, oath Michigan. Same a
, above.
X. Spotter, Company Il, 5th Missouri
H. L. McNary, Company 6, l05th Ohio. From
Tennessee to Kingsville.
Thomas Moore, 18th Illinois. From Washing
q ton to Illinois.
> R. Holly, Company B, sd Indiana. From Fl
/ Monroe to Indiana.
NJ. Kelly, 9th Ohio Battery. From Nashvill
to NeWbeTry.
B. F. Buckhinham, Company H, 59th New Jer
u sey. From New Jersey to Norwalk.
r. Falkner. Company A, 18th Michigan. FIoI
a Washington to Ashtabula.
4 NJ Best, LIST o. V. A. From Toledo to WASH
u inufon GOTnTEpGs am GONTETV