It is a great relief
to my feelings that the difficulties heretofore existing between the Military
and Medical Departments in our Regiment are to-day adjusted, and I hope removed
by the rescinding the order of the 9th inst., that my directions about the
sanitary police of the camps need not be obeyed, and by a substitution of a
public order from which this is an extract: "The condition of the health
of the regiment requires more than ordinary care. The sanitary regulations of
the camp must be entrusted to the Surgeon of the regiment." I have good
reason to hope, too, that all personal feelings of an unpleasant character,
which have grown out of this unhappy difference of opinion as to official
rights, are removed, and that in future the relations of the two departments
may be pleasant to the parties, and beneficial to the sick. I now determined
that more than ever will I devote my energies to the removal of the causes of
the recent severe sickness, and to counteract their results.
SOURCE: Alfred L.
Castleman, The Army of the Potomac. Behind the Scenes. A Diary of
Unwritten History; From the Organization of the Army, by General George B.
McClellan, to the close of the Campaign in Virginia about the First Day
January, 1863, p. 57
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