Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Whereabouts Of The Wounded

It having been reported that the wounded soldiers would all be brought to St. Louis, a telegram was sent to Gen. Halleck, inquiring the facts, so that the relief committee might be guided thereby.  The following is Gen. Halleck’s answer:


TO C. H. ELDRIDGE:  All wounded are sent to Cincinnati, Mound City, Evansville, and St. Louis.  No distinction is made between States, or between friends and foes.  It is simply a question of humanity.

H. W. HALLECK,
Major General.


This entails more labor on the committee than was expected, but it will be cheerfully performed.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, February 20, 1862, p. 1

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