Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-08


whom has received single cent Tor his
services, nor been any expense what
ever beaides the cost Of Interpretations
and Subsistence. These agents have all
been volunteers, and they have come
promptly 10 the caIl of tho Com mission,
and >chserfully gone whftersoever the
necessities of the work has sent them.
Among those who have taken special
prominence in the distribution of sup
plies, and who are entitled to the graft
tude of the State for their zealons abne-
CATION of business and home, are Mr..
George Merritt and VIM. John Wallace,
of this city; DR.. G. J. Woods, of Wayne,
and Captain Robert Michael, of johnson
county. Most Of the distributions have,-
however, been made By the regular mill.
tary agents of the State. The following
have been the agents at the posts named,
during the heaviest workings of the
Commission. es - - 49,
At Louisville. Col. Jason Ham; at
Nashville, Cob Edward Shaw; at Chat.
tanooga, Mr.. Vincent Garter; at Men,
phis. DR.. g.. O. Jobes; at s Louis, DR..
]. E. McGaughey; at Washington City,
Prof W. q. De Motto; at City Point,
Virginia, Mr.. George A. Horner; at
New Orleans, DR.. George w. New; and
at Evansville, Indiana, Mr.. Philip Horn
brook. 68WfE F&s8
Several changes have occurred in
these agencies, and some have been dis
continued, but the maj ority of them re-
NAMED at their posts until the close Of
the war, and the necessity OF State
agencies was removed.
The first shipment of supplies to the
army from the headquarters Of the
Com mission in Indianapolis, was to the
army in Missouri, on the 18th of March,
1862, under the supervision OF General
Stone, State QuaItermaster General
The last shipment was on the 2lst OF
January, 1866, to Miss Sarah III Wells,
Macon, Georgia. -
The Geld visited by the agents of the
Sanitary Commission embraces the
States Of the Mississippi valley, Arkan
sas, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, North
and South Carolina, and, indeed, every.
single one of the Southern States; at
the principal cities of which agencies
have been established Upon the Ie-
turn of the armies of the Union to
Washington City, for the Grand Re-
view, the Military Agent at that place
sent So 900 worth of supplies to the In
diana regiments of Shermsns army.
The boys had a rough time in .smarch-l
fling down to the sea" and thespresence
OF the supplies just at the point eeded >
was feather in the cap OF Indiana, as
was illustrated by an incident which
occurred while the army was awaiting
Fthe review. By some oversight, the
brigadeio which the $50 Indiana was a.
ltached, had been entirely neglected BY
1.-THE army commlssariat, and for two
days they had nothingsto eat. On the
third, the three regiments concluded to
lS'bum" into Washington and demand
some grub. Wishing 70 make i unaui-
nous, they called upon. the SD Indiana,
and requested them to join IN the dem
onstration. To their surprise they
found the Hoosier5 boys living off the
fat of the land-debris Of Chickens,
preserve, pots. and other remains, at
testing the fact that, there had been
something good to eat nethe vicinity.
The SD declined, of course, 10. go TO
Washington, for hard tack, and informed
the three regiments that the Sanitary
Agent had been around Then we're
heard loud mouthed mnttesings against
the remissness of their ownrsSlates, and
equally as loud praises for Indiana, and
With Adjatant General Finnelh they
unanimously concluded, if they were
ever born again, to have itsdohe within
the patriotic domain of theelIoosier
State. y
- - SPECIAL SURGEONS.
The bloody and frequent battles Of the
rebellion demonstrated that the army
surgeons were insufficient to the task inn
posed upon them, and when any battle
was impending and imminent, Ia the
which Indiana troops were engaged, (and
where was not such battle-he!d2) the
Commission called for special surgeons
to goto the immediate vicinity and look
after the wounded. Every call was
promptly answered, and poor wounded
soldiers received the attention, skill and
advice of the best physicians and sur.
geons of America, free gratisl Of this
class of helps the President of the Com
mission thus speaks in his report for the
year 1864: '''a
During the course of the war it has
frequently been necessary, after severe
engagement, to call for the aid of special
Surgeons to wait upon the wounded.
These calls have been uniformly met,
and the required service, in most in
stances, faithfully rendered. We have
sought for the best talent in the medical
profession, and have always found com.
petent and experienced Surgeons willing
to leave their profitable business at home,
to spend weeks and sometimes months
in giving attention, often gratuitously, to
the sick and wounded. ManyliYes have
been preserved through their efforts
They have given their profession new
claim to our respect, and deserve the
gratitude of the people of Indiana.
$50 rs FEMALE NURSES. sf2sea d
In no department of the work of the
Sanitary Commission, is 1t felt that 80
much real and lasting good has been
done as in the employnent of female
nurses in the hospitals. At the begin
ming of the war, many objections were
made to the employment of ladies, on
various grounds, but events crowded so
thickly, that military snobbishness gave
way, and during the past four years In.
diana has alone employed two hundred
and fifty femAle nurses in the various
military hospitals at Memphis, Nash
vile, Louisville, New Orleans Natchez,
and other cities. The gentler ministra.
tions of woman, coupled with her kind
ness of heart and OVERLOOKING sympathy
with suffering, made the employment Of
female nurses q necessity, and crowned
It. glorious success. The soldiers Of
the Crimea learned to bless the shadow
of Florence Nightingale; and the ach-
ing, heads and worn and iveary.hearts of
thousands of American soldiers have
been relieved BY the followers of that