Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1864-02-10


Sd. What is the name of the Surgeon or Chap
lain the hospital2
18th. If not in hospital at presant, has he re.
Gently been in hospital?
9Th. Ifso, did he die in hospital, and at What
date?
9Th. If recently discharged from hospital, was
he discharged from service?
7th If not, what were his orders on leaving
More specific information as to the condition
of any patient in the District of Columbia hos
pitfalls will be furnished within twenty-foar hours
after request to do so is received at the Wash
ington office.
The Office of the Directory will be open daily
from o'clock A. NJ. to O. clock p. NJ, and in
urgent cases applicants ringing the door bell
will be received at any hour of the night.
Much Inconvenience in conductiong the bust
ness of the Directory having arisen where visitors
have been given direct access to the record books
themselves, this practice will hereafter be dis
continued; nor can lists of wounded in hospitals,
by States, counties regiments, or otherwise, be
hereafter furnished from these records.
The Sanitary Commission, under special au-
thority from the President of the United States
maintains an extensive system of agencies for
securing the safe conveyance to and distribution
OF goods put in its charge for the sick and wQuR-
ded at points where they are most wanted. 1t
operates with equal care and generosity at all
points-at New Orleans and at Washington, be-
fore Vicksbnrg and at ville-its distributions
being governed by comparison of the wants OF
The patients in all cases To ascertain the rela-
tive character of these wants in trustworthy
manner, and to secure an equitable distribution
and honest use s-of goods distributed, besides
the unpaid services of the members of the Com
mission, twenty physicians of high professional
and moral character and more than fifty lay
agents are employed, under pecuniary securities
for responsible and efficient service. The cost
OF these arrangements have thus far been about
per centum of the value of the goods distributed
The Commission has not been able to obtain am
shentic evidence of losses, miscarriage or mis-
appropriations, to the value Of one dollar in ten
thousand of goods which have been once received
1T its shipping depots. The following are the
names Of these depots, to which auxiliary socie-
ties and all disposed to aid the sick and wounded
without reference to States or localities, but
simply to their relative necessity for assistance,
are invited to send their offerings
Sanitary Commission, Branch Supply Office,
y Summer street, Boston, Massachusetts,
Sanitary Commission, Branch Supply Office,
] 0 Third Avenue, New York
Sanitary Commission, Branch Supply Office,
Il south Sixth street, Philadelphia Penna
Sanitary Commission, Branch Supply Office,
Cincinnati Ohio.
Sanitary Commission, Branch Supply Office
Bank street, Cleveland, Ohio.
Sanitary Commission, Branch Supply Office
Chicago, Illinois.
Sanitary Commission, Branch Supply Office,
Louisville, Kentucky.
The Commission receives no pecuniary aid
whatever from the Government, and is wholly
dependant on the voluntary contributions of the
public for the means of sustaining its operations
Contributions to its Treasury are solicited, and
may be transmitted to GEORGE T. STRONG, ESQ :,
Treasurer, 60 Wall street New York
The names of the following gentlemen, COM
missioners of the President of the United States
are pledged to the public for the economy, integ-
rity, and efficiency with which whatever is en-
trusted to the Sanitary Commission will be adj
ulinistarpd