Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-07-23
Sanitary Commission.
For the Weekly Telegraph.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. July IL, 1858.
Ny Good Telegraph:
Did it ever occur to you, that you, away
up there 10 the uiet peaceful northeast
corner Of the Reserve, know next to moth
ing of tie terrible realities of this DEATH
dealing war When some worn out, ems.
ciated. sallow, townsman has returned home
to suffer few more days and then die o.
mong his loved ones or when some brave
boy has returned minus an arm or leg
aud is daily seen upon your streets, his
limbless body aud cheerful counienance
uniting 10 their eloquence to plead the cause
OF our brave army, perhaps you have tho't
"how fearful thing is war y But what
would you think If that one sick man, and
that one lame boy were multiplied by tens
OF thousands, until every house and hotel
aud store, and church, and school build.
Ing in your beautiful village were literally
filed with jnst such maimed and sick, and
dying men and boys while every morning
and noon and night, your streets were
thronged with ambulances conveying some
OF these to other villages and bringing iu
from the front new sufferers to fill their
places Then, perchance, your ideas of
var would he somewhut nearer the
reality. Yet even that would iall far short
Of the whole truth. This large city is full
Of just such suffering Indeed. this whole
region, traversed by the rail road from Lou.
vile to chattanooga and to the front, is bnt
one continuous hospital. For while the
cities aud villages are Sled with these
brave men, long hospital trains are con-
stantly passing over the rouds, thIs linking
cities and villages together by the bands Of
sickness and death. "The sunny South"
is now changed to the dark valley Of the
"Shadow of Death"
Bnt you are ready to ask, what is being
done to relieve this unutterable amount of
sorrow aud suffering Much, every way
The government is doing all it possibly can.
And the people. outside of government
channels are doing much, chiefly through
that glorious, and heaven inspired organi.
zation, called the U. s. Sanitary Commits
sion. Would l could begin to tell you Of
the great d truly christian work which this
commission is doing. Did your readers bu,
know a thousand.h part of the good &C
complished by this Dorcas and Samaritan
united. l am sure the soldiers aid societies
in every city, village and township, would
Instantly receive new impetus, and would
cause their healing streams TO flow faster
and larger towards this river of life, than
they have done during the past year. LIE,
me entreat the ladies to renew their efforts
10 aid aud relieve our suffsring braves by
pouring larger supplies of every needed
thing, through this sanilary commission
which SO promptly extends its thousand
hands 10 the aid and relief of our men at
the front. by the way side. in the hospital
and wherever they are found Its work is
now so thoroughly systematiz,d that its
quiet energy makes |. nll the more useful,
and all the more deserving OF confidence and
help. So complete are oil its details, that
1t can accomplish far more than it is now
doing. without any increase Of machinety,
ami it will do this greater work, just so
fast as the people will furnish the means.
Then help the Sanitary Commission. and
thus help most surely the men who are Civ.
ing time and strength, and health and com.
fort, and even life, to telp you. P.