Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-06-04
THE WOUNDED.
Ohio Wounded at FredSrieksburg--The
Sanitary Commission nndIts management =

Ohio Wounded at FrsdSricksburg--The
Sanitary Commission nndIts management.
MrF. T. Wallace, Of Cleveland, orc of
the agents sent to the Virginia front By Gov
srnor Broueh to look after Ohio Soldiers
wounded in the recent battles in that Depart
ment, has made 3 lengthy report to tho Gov
ernor, the tenor of'which is not very hatter-
ing to the management of the Sanitary Com
mission, by which the stores for the wounded
are distributed. From his Interesting re-
port We makeGn extract or tive for the infor-
nation of our readers, TO show that the
Sanitary business is, in a measure, regulate
by the same red tape arrangements which
prevail in almost every department of the
Government, to the Injury of the soldiers.
In speaking of the reception extended to
State agents by the paid officers of the Com
mission, Mr.. Wallace says:
"Psrsons duly accredited by the Cover
nor of Ohio, and the Governors of other
States, Were not permitted, by those IN
charge Of sanitary stores, to receive articles,
from cup of coffee to pair of cotton stock
ings, and bestow the same upon those whom
they had specially come to seek and aid,s and
who composed a small portion Of the great
multitude Of the distressed but it was in
sisted that to help dispense the peoples
bounties, such special State agents must go
through the formality of an application to
some Imaginary headquarters for an COR
der" which application would probably be
fruitless, for the reason that persons appoint
ed by Governors of States on such missions
of mercy and relief, seem to be deemed and
treated as % outsiders" Gentlemen of the
Christian Commission generally Jared no
better in their similar applications, and
sometimes thought they were treated by
sanitary agents with, if possible, ooOler in
| difference than tho agents of tho State. In
short, it seemed to me the State agents, sent
in some respects to aid the Sanitary 0rgsBi-
zstion in its great labor of dispensing band
sRes. clean shirts, and hot eoffas, were
| treatad aIwoya as Intruders, and sometimes
as though they were agents and
delegates from the country. Looking
those wounded belonging to Ohio regiments,
l believe something from our little stores
we're actually furnished TO agents of the San
| itary Commission, some of whom had the
| GOODNESS to ask such fSvOrs, after we had
been referred to headquarters for an " order"
Ar. Wallace shows that there is q lament
able want Of order and system in the man
sgement of the Sanitary, by reason of the
lack Of good sense and want Of general bus
mess capacity by some of the dispensing
agents of the Sanitary stores, the spe-
cial benefits of the institution have been
lost, and consequently the good intentions
of the people have been uoavailing, and
their hopes and expectations of the highest
good resulting therefrOm, have in many in
stances been disappointed.
In conclusion he says that the only reme-
dy-tOr the evils complained of is, in his
judgment, the substitution of practical, sen
sible, business men for some Of the unWise
and impracticabie persons who are employed
by the Sanitary Commission, at good ssla-
ries, as dispensing agents in the hospital and
in the field.