SAVANNAH, Tenn., April 17, 1862.
TO J. L. DAVIS –
Treas. Scott Co. S. A. Society:
The undersigned, surgeons and representatives of your society, in order to accomplish the objects of their mission, require four metallic cases, in which to return the bodies of the following persons killed at the battle of the 6th and 7th inst., at Pittsburg Heights, Tenn. It is too warm to remove them without such cases.
LIEUT. COMPTON, of LeClaire.
JOHN BUCKMAN, of LeClaire.
GEORGE CROOKS, of LeClaire.
Mr. MILTON, Hickory Grove.
All the sick and wounded of Iowa, that we can find, are doing well and are well taken care of. We hope to get most of them off towards home this week. Some were removed before our arrival here.
Direct as follows:
Drs. MAXWELL & GAMBLE,
Pittsburg, Tenn.
Care of Dr. Douglass.
Any communication to the same care will reach us if sent immediately.
Lindsay, Coats and Bowling, of Davenport, are here wounded, and doing well. Everything indicates an advance of our troops soon. Immense forces are on the move towards the enemy. Should another battle occur, humanity requires that Iowa should send the largest steamers here for her own citizens. The States that have done so, have done immense good. When the wounded are once on the boat, they have everything to make them comfortable. From the battle to the boat is where they suffer most.
There should be a surgeon here and at Pittsburg, to act in the name of the State as State agent, to see to the State troops and furnish them such comforts as are not provided by the General Government. A few surgeons and a large force of nurses is what is most needed in the region of a battle. A surgeon can, in one hour, teach twenty nurses how to dress gun shot wounds, and in this manner he can watch the progress of the wounds, and have time to detect the first stages of such affections as follow the injuries. One female nurse to every ten male nurses would facilitate their operations very much.
Your committee have been offered the best of positions in their possession, provided we would agree to be detailed to special duties on boats and the field; but they have repeatedly declined all such offers, being determined to fulfill our obligations to Scott county and the State at large, before entering into any contracts that might interfere with opportunities that occur to benefit Iowa troops.
We do sincerely hope, that the friends of humanity will continue to exert themselves in providing for such emergencies as we firmly believe are close at hand, and that they will heed the suggestions herein contained.
It is now raining, and I am writing under difficulties which you cannot appreciate. We are in good health. Burwell we left at Pittsburg to see to our arrangements there. – Brown is here with us.
A. S. MAXWELL,
JAS. GAMBLE.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, April 25, 1862, p. 1
TO J. L. DAVIS –
Treas. Scott Co. S. A. Society:
The undersigned, surgeons and representatives of your society, in order to accomplish the objects of their mission, require four metallic cases, in which to return the bodies of the following persons killed at the battle of the 6th and 7th inst., at Pittsburg Heights, Tenn. It is too warm to remove them without such cases.
LIEUT. COMPTON, of LeClaire.
JOHN BUCKMAN, of LeClaire.
GEORGE CROOKS, of LeClaire.
Mr. MILTON, Hickory Grove.
All the sick and wounded of Iowa, that we can find, are doing well and are well taken care of. We hope to get most of them off towards home this week. Some were removed before our arrival here.
Direct as follows:
Drs. MAXWELL & GAMBLE,
Pittsburg, Tenn.
Care of Dr. Douglass.
Any communication to the same care will reach us if sent immediately.
Lindsay, Coats and Bowling, of Davenport, are here wounded, and doing well. Everything indicates an advance of our troops soon. Immense forces are on the move towards the enemy. Should another battle occur, humanity requires that Iowa should send the largest steamers here for her own citizens. The States that have done so, have done immense good. When the wounded are once on the boat, they have everything to make them comfortable. From the battle to the boat is where they suffer most.
There should be a surgeon here and at Pittsburg, to act in the name of the State as State agent, to see to the State troops and furnish them such comforts as are not provided by the General Government. A few surgeons and a large force of nurses is what is most needed in the region of a battle. A surgeon can, in one hour, teach twenty nurses how to dress gun shot wounds, and in this manner he can watch the progress of the wounds, and have time to detect the first stages of such affections as follow the injuries. One female nurse to every ten male nurses would facilitate their operations very much.
Your committee have been offered the best of positions in their possession, provided we would agree to be detailed to special duties on boats and the field; but they have repeatedly declined all such offers, being determined to fulfill our obligations to Scott county and the State at large, before entering into any contracts that might interfere with opportunities that occur to benefit Iowa troops.
We do sincerely hope, that the friends of humanity will continue to exert themselves in providing for such emergencies as we firmly believe are close at hand, and that they will heed the suggestions herein contained.
It is now raining, and I am writing under difficulties which you cannot appreciate. We are in good health. Burwell we left at Pittsburg to see to our arrangements there. – Brown is here with us.
A. S. MAXWELL,
JAS. GAMBLE.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, April 25, 1862, p. 1
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