| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| July 16, 1862 |
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| the traveling sick and wounded |
| Lynchburg, July 12th |
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| Messes. Editors: |
| Can you not through the columns of your excellent
paper, (so widely circulated) make an appeal in behalf of the
Lynchburg sick and wounded on the various railroads coming South from
Richmond. Are you aware -- can the Departments be aware — that these
poor sufferers are but in the car without attendant, and without water
to drink or to moisten the dressings of the wounded; and that the
conductors never get them any at the stations which they pass? Not
even do they provide seats enough for these, our "brave
defenders." The platforms are often crowded with sick, wounded,
hardly able to, yet obliged to strain every nerve in order in hold on
to their precarious position; exposed to hot sun or rain. Only to-day
have I attended the funeral of a brave, (the third son offered by a
widowed mother) wounded in one of the battles; and his death was
brought about less from his wound than from exposure on top of the car,
for causing in the wound which spread over his whole body. Many poor
fellows here, half-crazed with and hunger, after this eleven hours
travel — some go it is not possible to this crying . |
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