The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-09-08
THURSDAY, SEPT. s, 1864,
Colonel. Cant those boys have their sacks


! % FOR ALL-THE SAMARITAN.
JuRe 30. Here comes a crowd-the expo
dtion is returning. Here they file IN under
the porch, into the Hall, on the stairs,
around the hall Henry, God bless him is
not playing chess now. He is a soldier,
ready for anything, from experimenting
the broiIing of steak, to the laying down
his life for his country, only he is too lame
for the march, and skirmish, and does the
next best thing, cooks and keeps up the spl-
rits Of those who are not lame.
He is taking the cookstove by assault A
hundred weary boys are to be fed, and conn
Iforted. ''Hurrah, Tennessee; come old wo-
man, we've had weeks play spell, now we
must 40 5l-see them fellows? don't know
how they feel! hurry up the fires Grind
that coffee, they shall have a rousing good
cup this morning. But the bread, John,
hurry up, hurry up!'
'Iaura, where are the towels? Hang the
rollers up; get the wash basins in their
places" Poor fellows, how they plunge in
to the cool, clear cistern water, worn out
melting with heat. There goes a sunstruck
imam into the sick roolu. Matilda cold wa
tier for his head and hot water for his feet.
Courage my friend you'll soon be better."1---
1 He fell on the march, and the regiment
left him, and his Colonel found him and sat
him on his own horse, Ooh! the good Sa-
imaritan) and brought him in Won't his
iwife thank you'll 9lii d. ..taa7t g aear ~
And another, and another-how they
pour in. Bandages for this, compress Tor
that, poutice for the other. Bind up that
rheumatic knee; give that fainting one ice
water Yonder poor chap needs spoonful
Eof stimulus. Harry, Hurry; none too many
now none TOO many ready hands aud kind
hearts to answer to the needs Of one hun
dred or more, who come to be supplied with
what could be found no where else. go
to bed thanking God in my soul for all your
charities from the North, and all the pa
tience and love there is here to distribute
them. -- ~
| J1n6 3O.-rhe one hundred and more go );
they had dinner, supper, beds, breakfast, all
the sore feet mended, the swelled ones bath
ed and slippered the boils poulticed, the
wounds cleaned The steamer whistled,
and they are gone to join their regiments
at Memphis, or Natchez or'soniewhere %
But here are more Thirty OF forty -
Oh how wretched boys with no shirts; lost
lin the skirmish. New ones are ready; no
ishocs, and feet worn and blistered slippers
Eplenty -crutches for the lame; bandages
for the bruised; plasters for the fellons; to-
MICS for the weak restoratives for the faint
ing, and good for all XXX.
Ju7y 1.-IIouse full. Twenty going up ;
thirty going down; forty coming in, and
sixty going out-and not a request is made
reasonably that is not granted-because go's
have said it Should be so. | tell you MIR.
i AZ & Il n - tl,a
ck-room-but something goes out every
hour, to the regimental hospital, prison,
CAMP company or squad. Miss HATTIE,
still sick moaningIy wishes she could assist
and still Mrs II. in her strength rises up at
every call and says with the force Of true
woman, she can, and she does it too. May
/ she live long for the work. I'll a..T II
V. SANITARY SUPPLIES WHO USE THEM ? a
WORD FOR NURSES AND HELP--B BECOMING SIDE
. MoRALIzED. yf sa
Now while there's lull, and Mr. MANN is
starting North on duty, | may as well tell
you something else that you want to know
''Uon't the nurses and servants, use the
things we send for the soldiers
Mrs, Priin, Eyes to be sure they do; have
pair of slippers on this very minute that
came out of the Sanitary-for you know
Uncle Sam provides the rations, and the
Commissioners help us to extras. y
Yes, | have PAIR Of your slippers and so
have Henry and James; and do you care !
Do you want them to stump round here iii
army boots, to the annoyance of all the
bursting heads in the sick room And be-
sides are not they soldiers, and arn't their
feet as apt to blister as anybody's, when
they work so hard Henry's did blister, and
there as live, is Marsh in sanitary double
gown what right has he to that, I'd like
to know? Is not soldiers coat, these hot
July days good enough for hin? Even if he
does drive ambulance all day, and half the
night, bringing in stores, and sick ones and
wounded ones from streets, camps, regiments,
and steamers, and [ do not know what all
And George another of our goou boys, and
brave soldiers has pocket-hand1kerchief
. Now, you, Mr.. Grumbler, you hold ON
there. Pm glad Marsh has that loose gown,
to rest in, when he finds minutes time TO
rest. Why, it would cost him a months
soldiers pay to buy a light coat OF those
Jews, and there are his wife and children at
home, wanting all he cansspare. You'd give
it to him. yourself, il you were here to see
how tenderly and kindly he helps the sick
in and out i'll his strong arms.
He cannot watch and work and toll, and
never drop Of comfort. And there is Miss
Il giving a glass Of ale to Sam the Iaundary
man, aud Laura, the waiter Don't your
head swim; are you net ready to cry out
against all Sanitary Commissions, and utter
your maledictious against all matrons and
nurses GH sa-stAs1
You'd do it yourself, know you would If
you were here. Yes you would, you'd be
''demoralized'' in less than no time and I'll
bet flippin be running down stars to treat
Bob and John some Of these hotmorningB,
when they told you they felt 'like they was
powerful weak, and most done gone GIN
OUT
VI. DEPARTURE DE THE SUPERINTENDENT AND
MRS HARvEY-MoRE ARRIVALS.
July Still they come--still they go. Mr.
Mann leaves to-day see wife and children
we must all do little'more and make the
gap he leaves little less, fer he will leave
big gap, s a.,...sl q. ~,
J9Lg 3-What next will happen ? Mrs. Fl
lis called to see her father ''Ahd will stay
a few days?" she asks; What can Isay but
"yes,p But what shall we do without her.
! July Al go with party to dine-sing
songs and make speeches on the hearth stone
of jeff. Davis-whileI am gone Mrs. Hjgoes
North. ~ o.aaa .3..D q. --
July 9TH, 9th, 9Th, 18th, 9th,-Still they come
still they go. Not less than a hundred, and
sometimes twice that every day. The sick
room is full Oh,what washing and ironings
Sam aud Caroline do-for we will keep
clean, and hundred beds slept in every
night make work-and John says, why
Madam don't say missus here set them,
table three time day, morning, noon and
night and aIhundred lick,andl dey keeps
wanting and wanting sunthin', and we'se all
ready to drap." =. q
Well they may DO with the thermom-
eter:at 96,and Stewards big stove at boil