Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1864-06-25
NUMBER "a.
what the Sanitary Commission Is Doing.

| Under date of Philadelphia Agency U. S. SAM
itary Commission May l4th, R. NJ. Lewis, Gen.
eral Superintendent, furnishes the Enquirer the
| following information relative to the doings of
the Commission, received that morning from
the Central Office of the Commission at Wash
ington:
During the quarter, ending March 81, 1864,
supplies have been forwarded to the various sta
lions in this Department to the value of $ll2,-
4l9 81 viz: To Washington, S7s,527 AZ to
New Orleans, SCI, so7 oil ; to Newbern, ST.
72s o.; to Beaufort, S.. s57 OF.
In anticipation of the battles now in progress
the Chief Inspector made requisition for such
articles rs he considered desirable to have in
stock at Washington. They were Immediately
ordered and sent forward The estimated value
of the goods is $50, 900. The following is a list:
800 bed sacks, 800 bed pans, 1000 blankets,
200 lanterns, so oil silks (rols), 900 pillows,
3 900 sheets, 1000 towels, 1000 tin cups, 800
tin basins, 900 tin plates, zoo pals, 5000 pairs
cotton drawers, 10000 pocket handkerchiefs,
300 pounds chloroiorm one pound bottles 1000
pairs slippers $500 wooden socks 5000 cotton
socks, IS barrels dried apples, 1000 beef stock,
500 bottles brandy, 1000 chocolate $500 cans
extract of coffee, 10000 condensed milk, l25
barrels crackers, SEQ bottles extract of Jamaica
ginger, 1900 pounds farina, 500 bottles lemon
syrup, 1000 pounds corn starch, 100 pounds
muSlaTu oUU DOllleS Jalnstlcd rum, 4,OoU pOuHuS
white sugar, 300 gallons tamarinds, 800 pounds
black tea, 200 pounds tobacco (chewing,) 1000
pounds tobacco (smoking,) 1000 clay pipes, so
gross matches, 800 bottles foreign wine, 500
bottles whisky, so barrels bandages (rollers,)
25O bottles bay rum, $50 bottles cologne, 500
pairs crutches, 250 pounds CASTLE soap, 5000
sponges, 4 900 wooden shirts, 900 cotton shirts,
$50 pounds candles stationary so pounds old
linen, 800 pairs shoes, 800 pieces mosquito
netting, 500 rolls plaster adhesive 900 combs,
70 barrels dried fruit lemons, oranges, etc.
To meet the demands of the wounded in the
column under command of Major General B. F.
Butler, some forty tons of supplies of all kinds
were sent to Norfolk, Va. large stock was
also collected at Harper's Ferry for General
! Sigel's forces. Additional agents sent to
this point, well as to Norfolk. heavy
serve stock, valued at $500 900, was stored in
our warehouses at Washington Seven four
horse wagons belonging to the Commission,
loaded with supplies most needed upon the field
of battle, moved with the Army of the Potomac.
These entrusted to experienced agents, who
have been long in the field Some forty young
men, carefully trained for the work, were held
in readiness in Washington to go to the field MS
an Auxiliary Relief Corps, soon needed.
\ Reserve Corps, one hundred strong, stood
ready to go to the front whenever called upon.
Nine wagons and about forty horses were ready
for the transportation of supplies. On Tuesday,
the steamboat Merry f. Rdpiey, loaded with some
seventy tons of supplies, and having on board
about sixty agents of the Commission, the whole
under the superintendent of DR.. Lewis H.
Steiner, Chief Inspector of the Commission for
the Army of the Potomac, left this city for Belle
Plain. The Raplcy towed down large barge,
having on board five wagons, twenty-onc horses
and necessary forage. On arriving at Belle Plain
| tents were pitched, portion of the goods we're
pushed to Fredericksburg in the wagons,
while the remainder unloaded, and then
rapidly sent back to Washington for fresh sup
ply. feeding station was Immediately estab-
lished by DR.. Steiner, where thousands Of men
have already been fed.
| The day after the Rapley left, another barge.
having board four large wagons and seven
teen horses, went to Belle Plain. Some twenty
more agents went the same day.
DR.. Alexander Mcdonald, Chief Inspector for
the Department of Norfolk and the Peninsula,
was, when last heard from, at Bermuda Hun
drcd, on James river, with thirty tons of ice and
forty tons of stores Another load is to GO to
| him in q day two