The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-19

The daughter of a prominent Chattanooga
clergyman said to me: Il was out at one
OF the hospitals assisting some charitable
ladies Of this city who were there cooking for
and administering to the soldiers. One Of
them came to me and said she heard an
official say loudly 10 a soldier: Bring lit
ter here and take this man out. He will be
dead in a few minutes My friend says thai
when she heard the order she glanced at
the sick man and saw him look up at the
officer. He had heard every word that had
been said. and she will never forget the look
on that dying mans face
Last Saturday night" said a well known
citizen of Chattanooga to me, "a soldier of
the Ninth New York died in one of the hos
pita-s. I was out at the camp when word
was telegraphed to his relatives. I was out
TO the camp at II o'clock on Sunday morn
ing and the body had, apparently, not been
touched. In the same hospital were a lot of
sick men. I asked why the body had not
been removed, and an officer told me that an
other officer had been expected to get an
undertaken and attend to the matter When
e man dies in the hospitals his bcdy lies
there until an undertaken from Chattanooga
can find time to go up for it. Frequently
hours elapse between the time Of death and
removal from the hospitals The undertakers
Avs
promptly notified
woman of high social sanding In Chat
tanooga said to me: Some DAYS ago an
ONO battery was ordered out at o'clock
IN the morning to march to Lookout Mount
am. Several of the men were i'll Tbey did
not have anything to eat until II o'clock thai
day At night they lay out on the ground.
Those who were i'll suffered greatly. A kind
hearted lad urbo
on Lookout Mountain to see If she could
render any assistance to the sick men. She
found one man whose arm was swollen to
such an extent, from the wrist to his shoul
der, that he was unable to move It. He
had received a clumsy injection of some Au;d
into the arm and the bone had been reached
Dy the point of the instrument. She bathed
MS arm with alcohol and did all in her pow
er to relieve his intense suffering Others
she could do little for Her indignation Iyas
increased when she learned that the cnlv
officer left in charge of the battery that nigh.
was a sergeant. All the other Officers wfra
at a dance in Lookout Inn."
Undertaken Sharpe, of Chattanooga. has IN
the aggregate embalmed and shipped over one
hundred dead bodies to various sections of the
country. eSe of his townsmen nrom;nent
business man, tells this story:
one day while Sharpe was passing a hos
pital tent he beard someone within begging
piteously that he might be taken out. The
undertaken entered and asked an orderly what
was the matter. At this a poor fellow living
on a cot cried out: For GODS sake take
me out OF here. Give me a chance for my life
Ine orderly, answering Sharpe, said: oh.
thats fellow that knows he's got to die; he
Will be dead before tomorrow. He's CRYING
and hollering, but nothing can be done for
him. The sick man redOubled his annaaIs
In a way that cut down deep into Sharpe's
heart, and he says: If you'll let me take him
out I'll telephone down to my wife and have
room prepared for him. He was told that
the man couldn't be saved, but he finally got
permission to remove him. He got the sick
man down to Chattanooga, provided a nurse
for him, and now the poor fellow has chance
to pull through. I was told that the sick man
is Lieut.. Loud, of the First Maine'
Another soldier on whom the doctors had