NP: July 27, 1864 Philadelphia Press: HQ and Field Hospital, 9th Corps

Editor’s Note: This article was provided by David Welch (100th Pennsylvania Roundheads) and transcribed by Jackie Martin.

HEADQUARTERS 9^TH ARMY CORPS,

CAMP BEFORE PETERSBURG, VA., July 1, 1864.

SIR:  It gives me great pleasure to acknowledge [illegible] with the receipt of an issue of vegetables for my command, contributed by the Sanitary Commission.

My command is already indebted to you for several issues of vegetables and anti-scorbutics, and I cannot let this opportunity pass without expressing my sincere thanks and appreciation of the value of the services which your Commission has so generously rendered.

I am, sir, very respectfully,

A. E. BURNSIDE, Major General.

FIELD HOSPITAL, 9^TH ARMY CORPS,

NEAR PETERSBURG, VA., July 2, 1864.

DR. J. H. DOUGLAS, ASSOCIATE SECRETARY UNITED STATES SANITARY COMMISSION:

SIR:  As surgeons and chaplains of the 9^th Army Corps, it gives us great pleasure to acknowledge to you and to the many friends of the Sanitary Commission our great indebtedness to this Commission, during the present campaign, for the supply of numerous articles so essential to the comfort of the sick and wounded, demonstrating the exceeding value of this charity.

It affords us unqualified pleasure to bear testimony to the energy and faithfulness of your agent, Dr. N. C. Stevens, in dispensing the stores committed to his trust.

Especially do we commend his judgment in the distribution of large quantities of anti-scorbutics to the men in the trenches, where the utility of such material is established in the prevention of sickness and the regulation of the system, rendering their recovery, when wounded, more probable and speedy.  We trust that the Commission will continue its work in this direction so favorably begun.

Most respectfully yours,

Horace Ludington, surgeon 100^th Penna. Volunteers, in charge 1^st Division, 9^th Army Corps, Field Hospitals.

John W. Snow, surgeon 35^th Massachusetts Volunteers.

[illegible] O. Mullen, surgeon, 14^th New York Artillery.

[illegible] H. Dashiell, chaplain, 57^th Massachusetts Infantry.

[illegible] Fletcher Oaks, 56^th Massachusetts, assistant surgeon hospital, 1^st Division, 9^th Army Corps.

[illegible] V. White, surgeon, 57^th Massachusetts.

[illegible] W. Mortoni, assistant surgeon, 59^th Regiment [illegible] Volunteers.

Horace B. Durant, assistant surgeon, 100^th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers.

William A. Webster, surgeon, 9^th Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers.

Theodore J. Christ, surgeon, 45^th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers.

[illegible] Milwal, surgeon, 31st Regiment Maine Volunteers.

Herman Cooper, surgeon, 6^th Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers.

[illegible] T. Paine, Jr., surgeon, 2d Regiment New York Militia.

[illegible] Pierce, assistant surgeon, 17^th Regiment Vermont Volunteers.

[illegible] G. Milsen, assistant surgeon.

[illegible] Messenger, assistant surgeon, Pennsylvania Volunteers.

[illegible] C. Hafton, surgeon, 32d Regiment Maine Volunteers.

[illegible] B. Smith, assistant surgeon, 32d Regiment Maine Volunteers.

[illegible] Dowe, chaplain, 6^th Regiment New Hampshire Veteran Volunteers.

[illegible] Dyford, chaplain 11^th Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers.

Geo. C. Gracefor, chaplain 31^st Regiment Maine Volunteers.

William A. Start, chaplain 58^th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers.

Wm. R. D. Blackwood, surgeon 48^th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers.

[illegible] B. Beckley, chaplain 48^th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers.

L. W. Bliss, surgeon 51^st Regiment New York Volunteers.

E. J. Bonnie, surgeon 2d Regiment Michigan Veteran Volunteers.

S. S. French, surgeon 2d Brigade, 3d Division, 9^th Army Corps.

William B. Fox, surgeon 1^st Brigade, 3d Division, 9^th Army Corps.

H. E. Smith, surgeon 27^th Regiment Michigan Volunteers.

D. E. Roundy, surgeon, 37^th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers.

W. E. Shurlock, surgeon, 51^st Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers.

A. F. Whelan, surgeon 1^st Regiment Michigan Sharpshooters.

Charles E. Ames, surgeon 60^th Regiment Ohio Volunteers.

Harrison H. Powers, assistant surgeon 27^th Regiment Michigan Volunteers.

H. L. Butterfield, surgeon 38^th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers.

L. L. Doolittle, surgeon 24^th Regiment New York Cavalry.

Joseph James, chaplain 20^th Regiment Michigan Volunteers.

S. S. Hunting, chaplain 27^th Regiment Michigan Volunteers.

J. D. Bevine, surgeon 17^th Regiment Michigan Volunteers.¹

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