CHICAGO
DAILY TRIBUNE
January - June, 1862
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, January 1, 1862, p. 2, c. 9
Woolen Yarn Zephyr
Worsted,
Balmoral Hose and Leggins,
Hoods, Mittens, Sleeves,
Sontags and Comforters,
Commenced Slippers and Raised
Work Cushions
Woolen Hosiery,
Gents' and Boys' Hand Knit Half Hose.
We are receiving daily additions to our stock of Knit Worsted Woolen Goods. Wholesale cash buyers will do well to look at our stock of these goods.
Sutton & Burkitt,
41
LaSalle Street
41.
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, January 1, 1862, p. 1, c. 9
Will Positively Close
Saturday, January 4th, the Original
celebrated and world-renowned American
Man in Miniature,
Gen'l Tom Thumb,
Smallest Man Alive!
At Kingsbury Hall, Randolph-st.,
For this week only.
Two brilliant Entertainments each day, afternoons at 3 and evenings at 7 ½ o'clock. On New Years and Saturdays, THREE grand Performances—morning at 12, afternoon at 3, and evening at 7 ½. Doors open half an hour previous. The General will appear in all his wonderful Impersonations, Songs, Dances, Grecian Statues, &c., &c., assisted by Mr. W. Thomlin, the great English Baritone and Buffo, from the Nobility's Concerts, London; Mr. W. De Vere, the celebrated American Tenor, and Prof. C. G. Titcomb, brilliant Pianist. The General will ride in his
Beautiful Miniature Carriage,
From the Sherman House to the Hall, previous to each Entertainment.
Admissions:
Day
Entertainment
25 Cents
Children under 10
13 "
Schools admitted on liberal terms.
Evening Entertainment
15 "
Children under 10
10 "
Reserved Seats
25 "
The General and suite appear in Waukegan 6th Kenosha 7th,
Racine 8th, Milwaukee 9th, 10th, 11th.
Alfred Cately, Business Agent.
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, January 1, 1862, p. 3, c. 7
Albums! Albums!!
At Fassett & Cook's
Emporium of Photographic Art.
Fassett takes this method of informing his friends, customers and the public generally that the promised stock of
Photographic Albums,
Selected and purchased by his Agent in New York,
Have Arrived,
And are the Richest, Most Elegant, and at the same time the Cheapest ever exhibited in Chicago. Now, while the assortment is fresh and complete, is the time to make selections
For Holiday Gifts.
Fassett & Cook are still making three hundred daily of those exquisite keep-sakes,
Cartes de Visite!
The beauty of which has created for their establishment an enviable reputation.
Photographs,
Plain, Colored and Retouched in India Ink; Ivorytypes and every style of desirable Pictures made to suite [sic] the taste of sitters, and the public may rest assured that the aim of Mr. Fassett (the resident member of the firm) is to produce and sell none but the
Best Pictures,
Unsurpassed by any in the Country.
We have also the largest and best selected stock of
Gold and Rosewood Frames
Ever brought to this market, all of which will be sold to customers lower than can be obtained elsewhere.
Advice to Sitters:
Ladies wishing to bring their children for Likenesses should dress them in light colors, small figures, plaids or plain goods, and chose [sic] a bright morning, between the hours of eleven and one o'clock. The best hours for adults these short winter days are between 8 A.M. and 3 P.M.
We would advise all parties wishing Colored Pictures
For Holiday Gifts,
To hand in their orders at once, so that we may have sufficient time to accommodate all.
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, January 21, 1862, p. 4, c. 9
Pipers Wanted for the
Scotch Regiment.
Apply personally or by letter at 101 Washington street, Room No. 8
Daniel Cameron, Colonel Commanding.
Parties raising Companies or parts of Companies are requested to apply as
above. Every facility will be extended, and liberal inducements
offered to parties recruiting in the country.
The Scotch Regiment will probably be the last accepted by the Government
from Illinois.
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, January 22, 1862, p. 1, c. 9
Valentines for 1862.
My stock for the approaching season will be entirely new, and will far surpass that of former years.
Valentines, Single, from 1 cent to Twenty Dollar
Valentines in $5 Lots,
Valentines in $10 Lots; Valentines in $20 Lots.
Comic and Sentimental Valentines Assorted,
Patriotic comic Valentines, Envelopes,
Cards, Writers, &c.
No Commission, but Cash Sales at Half the Price.
John W. Norris, 102 Madison street, Chicago, Ill.
The Trade supplied on the most liberal terms.
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, January 22, 1862, p. 1, c. 9
Bryan Hall.
Metamorphosed into a Psychomanteum.
On Monday Evening, Jan. 27th, 1862.
And following Evenings of the Week.
Extraordinary Event.
First appearance in Chicago of that Great Artist,
Prof. Anderson,
The World-Renowned and Greatly Celebrated
Ambidextrous Prestidigitator
The Famous Magician, Illusionist,
Prestidigitator, Physicist and Traveler.
And the only artist in the profession of Magic who performs with the
entire Absence of any Apparatus, and who can alternate his performance with
illustrations of the Mechanism of Magic using apparatus, which cost $30,000.
A Few Facts Relative to This Extraordinary Entertainment.—A Night in
Wonder-World is cyclogical; it has gone the wide world round, traveled with the
same principal actor, the same company and the same properties.
A Night in Wonder-World is ecumenical, not appealing to one nation or one
class but giving general delight to all, and understood by all, no matter what
language or customs. A Night in
Wonder-World is eclectic; its elements of pleasing have been selected from all
sources and blended in one harmonious whole.
The following is an exact account from Prof. Anderson's book of the
number of times this extraordinary Entertainment has been represented in its
present forms:
In England, Scotland and Ireland
3,121 Times
On the European Continent
893
do
In the lands of the Orient
401
do
In Australia and Tasmania
12
do
In California
205
do
And in the United States on the Atlantic
1,076 do
____________
6,035 Times
No Master in the Magic Art has practices this art more successfully,
become more eminent, traveled further or achieved more wondrous deeds than has
Prof. Anderson. On Monday Evening, Jan. 27th, will be produced the
grand Magico-Drama of
A Night in Wonder-World!
Amidst the Mystic, Weird, Wonderful and Enchanting. The Entertainment being on the same scale of Grandeur as recently produced by the Professor at the Academy of Music, New York; Academy of Music, Boston; Academy of Music, Brooklyn; Pike's Opera House, Cincinnati.
The Experiments are New and Grand,
Inexplicabilities Abound!
Mirth Goes Hand in Hand with Mystery!
In the course of the performance, Mr. J. H. Anderson, Jr., will outrival
the Davenport Boys, by doing their Rope-Tying Trick without any recourse to
spiritual aid.
Pianist, Retro-Reminiscent Clairvoyant and Second-sighted Sybil.....Miss
Anderson.
The Fairy of the
Portfolio.....................................................................Miss
F. Anderson.
Grand Afternoon Performance, Saturday, Feb. 1, at 3 P.M.
Admission 50 cents. Children
under 12 years of age, accompanied by their parent, 25 cents.
Places secured at the Ticket Office, daily, from 10 A.M. to 3 P.M.
Doors open every evening at 7 ½ o'clock; performance commences at 8
o'clock.
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, January 23, 1862, p. 1, c. 7
For Chapped Hands
Use the
Cocoaine Soap,
Cocoaine Soap,
Cocoaine Soap,
Cocoaine Soap,
Cocoaine Soap,
Cocoaine Soap,
Cocoaine Soap,
Cocoaine Soap,
Cocoaine Soap,
Cocoaine Soap,
For all roughness and exfalliations [sic] of the Skin.
Nothing equals it, and for producing an abundant pasty lather it is
guarranteed [sic] equal to the best English or French Soaps.
Put up in boxes containing three cakes at 35 and 50 cents per box.
We also offer over 100 different varieties of English, French and
American Soaps of the best makes.
Smith & Dwyer,
Druggists and Chemists,
Opposite the Tremont House.
CHICAGO
DAILY TRIBUNE, January 29, 1862, p. 1, c. 7.
To Printers.—We offer for sale the following described lots of
Wood Type,
At
prices annexed. By comparing them
with Foundry prices for same article, it will be seen that we make a discount of
about 50 per cent. This type is in
good order, and is sold only because we have a surplus on hand.
Terms—Cash, to accompany the order.
6 A Font, 60 line Tuscan
$25.00
3 " 10
" Antique
3.00
3 " 12
" Shaded
6.00
3 "
50 "
Gothic Condensed
10.00
3 " 40
" Tuscan
14.00
3 " 20
"
"
7.00
3 " 6
" Antique
3.00
3 " 20
" Tuscan Shaded
7.00
3 " 100
" Tuscan
*30.00
3 " 100
" Grecian
Condensed
*25.00
3 " 24
" Full Faced
"
6.00
3 " 20
" Tuscan Shaded
7.00
3 " 70
" Antique
Condensed, u. & l c.
*25.00
*Less than half price.
Address Wm. H. Rand,
Tribune Office, Chicago.
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, January 29, 1862, p. 1, c. 8
Bronchial Cigarettes,
Bronchial Cigarettes,
For
the immediate relief of Asthma, Bronchitis and other affections of the Throat.
Prepared and sold only by
Gale Brothers, Druggists,
No. 202 Randolph street, Chicago.
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, February 19, 1862, p. 1, c. 8
List of
Military Books
for sale by
S. C. Griggs & Co.,
39 & 41 Lake Street, Chicago, Ill.
Jomini's
Art of War. A new edition with
appendices and maps; translated from the
French by Capt. G. B. Mendell and Lieut. W. P. Craighill.
Price $1.50.
Jomini's Campaign of Waterloo. Price,
75c.
Military Surgery; by S. D. Cross.
Price 50 cts.
Notes on the Surgery of the Crimean War; by Macleod.
$1.50.
Guthrie's Surgery of the War in Portugal, Spain, France, the Netherlands, and
the Crimea.
6th edition.
$2.25.
Revised U. S. Army Regulations. $2.00.
Ordnance Manual of U. S. Army. $2.50.
Instructions in Field Artillery. $2.50.
Anderson's Evolutions in Field
Artillery. $1.00.
Roberts' Hand Book of Artillery. 75
cts.
Coppee's Field Manual of Evolutions of the Line.
50 cents.
Mahan's Field Fortifications. $1.00.
Mahan's Advanced Guard Out Posts. 75c.
Douglas on Fortifications. (London). $3.75.
McLellan's Bayonet Exercises. $1.25.
Kelton's Manual of the Bayonet. $1.75.
Berriman's Sword Play. $1.00.
Wilcox's Rifles and Rifle Practice. $1.75.
McLellan's Field Service of U. S. Cavalry.
$1.50.
Cooke's U. S. Cavalry Tactics. 2
vols. $1.50.
U. S. Cavalry Tactics. 3 vols.
$3.75.
U. S. Infantry Tactics. 1 vol.
$1.25.
Scott's Infantry Tactics. 3 vols.
$2.50.
Hand Book for the United States Soldier. Paper,
25 cents.
Hodson's Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India.
$1.00.
Scott's Military Dictionary. $5.00.
The most complete collection of Military Books in the West may be found
upon our counters.
Dealers will find our prices low and terms cash.
Any of the above books mailed, postage paid, on receipt of the price, and
ten cents on each dollar's worth to cover postage.
S. C. Griggs & Co.,
39 & 41 Lake Street.
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, February 19, 1862, p. 1, c. 9
Just Received.
Skirt Braids,
Black, Brown and Assorted colors.
Also, a large lot of
Gilt and Steel Buttons, Linen Shoe Laces, &c.,
At J. M. Stine's,
33 Lake St., corner of Wabash Avenue.
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, March 27, 1862, p. 2, c. 9
Wheeler & Wilson's Sewing Machines
[illustration of woman seated at machine]
We
prefer them for Family Use.—[New York Tribune.
They are the Favorites for Families.—[New York Times.
It has No Rival.—[Scientific American.
There are 85,000 Machines in use in this country and Europe.
This Machine is Profitable and Available a Life-Time.
It is equal to Ten Seamstresses.
An Annual Dividend of 100 to 500 per cent. (on its cost) may be obtained in
use—by its possessor.
This is the only Sewing Machine in the world making the Lock-Stitch with the
Rotating-Hook, and using the Glass-Foot.
Geo. R. Chittenden,
General Agent for Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Northern Indiana and Southern
Minnesota.
163 and 165 Lake street, Chicago, Ill.
Circular may be had on application or by post.
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, March 27, 1862, p. 2, c. 9
L. Cornell & Co.'s
Sewing Machines.
Prices from $35 to $90.
Taggart & Fair's Patent.
Wilcox & Gibbs Patent.
Empire Patent.
All Sewing Machines in market make one or another of these three
stitches, Single Thread Stitch; Double Lock Stitch, (from two common spools);
Lock or Shuttle Stitch, (alike on both sides).
An experience of Five Years in the business and a practical knowledge of
every Sewing machine of any standing, fully warrant us in saying that we have,
by far, the best, stillest, most simple and reliable machines, taking All of
These Stitches. No one can deny
that each stitch is good when well made, and that each in its place, is
preferred by different parties. Ours
is the only office where you can gain an un prejudiced knowledge of the real
merit of the different stitches, and have your choice, with privilege of
exchanging. Different sizes will
suit all parties, whatever they wish to sew.
Our Heavy Manufacturing Lock Stitch (alike on both sides) Machines are as
large and heavy as Singer's, while they run lighter, faster and with less than
one-tenth of the noise.
We keep Sewing Machine Silk, Cotton, Oil, Needles, and we Rent Sewing
Machines by the week or month.
A Lady is in attendance to do all kinds of stitching to order.
Read our Circular before purchasing.
Send red stamp for Samples and Circular, or call and see them at 133 Lake
Street, (up stairs.)
Address L. Cornell & Co., Box 31, Chicago, Ill.
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, March 27, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
P. Peugeot,
Manufacturer of
Willow Cabs,
Children's Gigs,
And Carriages,
to be had only at
Peugeot's Great Variety Store
108 Lake Street.
Also on hand a large assortment of
Marbles,
Balls, Tops, &c., &c.
CHICAGO
DAILY TRIBUNE, April 5, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
A
letter from the Tennessee river, contains the following paragraph about the
loyalists who have appeared on the Tennessee river:
This
invaluable class is composed--according to a careful analysis made by an eminent
chemist on the spot--of ten parts unadulterated Andy Johnson Union men, ten of
good lord good devil-ites, five of spies, and seventy-five scalawags, too lazy
to run, therefore disqualified for service in the Secesh army, and too cowardly
to steal on their own responsibility, but willing to be enrolled as "Home
Guards," so as to plunder their neighbors under the Union flag.
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, April 9, 1862 (Wednesday) [Summary: battle of Pittsburg Landing reported from "last night's dispatches"], p. 1, c. 3
From
Cairo. Special Dispatch to the
Chicago Tribune. Cairo, April 8,
1862.
...
"Dr. Simons, the Medical Director, leaves this evening for the Tennessee,
with two large hospital boats, most completely fitted out, under the direction
of J. E. Yeatman, Esq., of the St. Louis Sanitary Commission.
They contain 800 beds for the wounded.
The hospital here have [sic] accommodations for 1,400.
CHICAGO
DAILY TRIBUNE, April 10, 1862, p. 1, c. 1
Sheets, bed ticks, shirts and drawers, are urgently wanted by the Sanitary
Commission immediately. A dispatch
received last evening calls for a large number at the earliest possible moment.
Contributions are earnestly asked to be sent in at once.
These wants will continue to be pressing as the wounded and sick will be
increasing.
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, April 10, 1862, p. 1, c. 2
Money Wanted.
The Sanitary Committee of this city is an organization
acting with great intelligence and effectiveness, and without pay, for the
welfare of our soldiers in the field. Thus
far the money that it has expended has been contributed mainly, if not entirely,
by the people of this city; but in spite of the generosity of the patriotic
here, the Committee is in want of funds. In its name, and by its request, we make another appeal to
the people of the country, as well as city.
Yesterday a hasty collection supplied its immediate wants and enabled a
large corps of surgeons and nurses to go to the battle field at Pittsburgh; but
to-day the demand will be as pressing as it was then. A thousand things essential to the comfort of our brave boys
are wanted, and nothing but money will obtain them. Nurses cannot go, in most cases, unless their expenses are
paid; and special trains cannot be run for nothing, even in war times.
Let us who are secure at home, who are made secure by the
self-sacrificing gallantry of our troops who, for their country and for us, are
now suffering by the remorseless disasters of a hard fought field--let us do
every man what we can for their relief. We
appeal to city and country alike, for both alike are interested.
If but little that each can give, let that little be sent. A single dollar may save the life of a brave and loyal man.
Every cent will assuage suffering and mitigate woe.
All
monies sent to Judge Mark Skinner, Chicago, the Chairman of the Board, will be
faithfully, intelligently and conscientiously expended in the Committee's
Samaritan labor; and all sums, large or small, will be thankfully received.
We know the people of the Northwest, and we do not plead in vain!
CHICAGO
DAILY TRIBUNE, April 10, 1862, p. 1, c. 3
Special dispatch to the Chicago Tribune. Cairo,
April 9, 1862--2 P.M.
General Strong is sending up every boat at command to bring down the wounded.
He has telegraphed to the Governors of neighboring States and to Sanitary
Commissions for nurses and hospital supplies.
Cairo, April 9, 1862--10 P.M.
Gen. Strong has received notice of large numbers of physicians, nurses, and
hospital stores coming from Chicago, Springfield, St. Louis and other places.
Several barges of ice are ordered up the Tennessee river for the wounded.
CHICAGO
DAILY TRIBUNE, April 10, 1862, p. 1, c. 7
Louisville, April 9.--At a large meeting of citizens, the Mayor presiding, to
make arrangements for taking care of the wounded from Corinth, $2,500 dollars
were contributed, and any further amount desired offered. The steamer Commercial
left for the Tennessee river to-night with medical and other supplies.
The steamer Diligent will leave to-morrow with nurses and supplies.
Any amount of hospital accommodations in this city were offered.
CHICAGO
DAILY TRIBUNE, April 10, 1862, p. 3, c. 3
The Sanitary Commission [long list of donations for week ending April 5, 1862]
To meet a heavy requisition made on the Sanitary Commission from the Medical
Purveyor and Medical Director at Pittsburgh and Savannah, the Sanitary
Commission made application through C. G. Wicker, Esq., to the Citizens' Relief
Committee for aid in furnishing the necessary supplies, and received through Mr.
Wicker the following list of articles, costing $185.43, viz:
2 bxs
oranges, 2 bxs lemons, 3 brls green apples, 1 hf brl dried beef, 2 kegs butter,
3 bxs prunes, 12 doz candlesticks, 2 doz tamarinds, 1 bag dried apples, 1 brl
dried peaches, 4 doz canned fruit, 1 bag codfish, 2 doz chamber pots, 2 bxs star
candles, 1 hf chest Oolong tea, 4 doz solidified milk.
The
following articles have been purchased by the Sanitary Commission at a cost of
$283.20, in order to meet the requisition mentioned above:
200
lbs. arrow root, 400 do farina, 100 do sago, 20 do cloves, 10 do sponge, 10 do
chloroform, 500 do pearl barley, 100 do tapioca, 20 do cinnamon, 10 do nutmegs,
100 yds adhesive plaster, 12 urinals--20 packing boxes for same.
The
following articles have been contributed to meet the same requisition:
Wm.
Blair & Co.--1 box containing 1 dozen razors, 1 doz razor strops, 6 doz
scissors, 8 doz candlesticks, 1 doz spittoons.
J. K.
Botsford & Co.--6 doz tin plates, 1 dozen wash bowls.
H. O.
Stone--1 doz razors, 2 doz cork screws.
Van
Schaack--1 doz razors.
Wm.
Wheeler--10 doz graters.
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, April 10, 1862, p. 4, c. 2
Aid for the Wounded.
Immediately upon the reception of the news of the great
battle at Pittsburg Landing, the heart of the people became as
sad--notwithstanding the great victory--as it had on the previous day been
pleased and elated at the bloodless success of Island No. Ten.
Well did that people know that Chicago was largely represented in the
ranks of the Federal troops engaged in the severe and bloody battle that had
been fought. Pale faces and tearful
eyes surrounded the bulletin board of the Tribune office all the day, and there
was an intensity of feeling pervading the entire community in regard to the
result that no previous battle of the war had brought out.
There
were reports in the streets, started by wretches simply unfeeling and heartless,
that the Nineteenth Regiment and the Hecker (German) Regiment were engaged in
the battle of Pittsburg Landing, and their ranks had been dreadfully cut up.
So far as yet learned these were merely cruel rumors without foundation,
in fact and not to be relied upon. But
enough was known to show that a large number of men were wounded and suffering.
Steps were immediately taken to ameliorate their condition.
The
Board of Trade, whose members are always foremost in humane and charitable
movements, held a meeting at twelve o'clock, a subscription from the merchants
on 'Change, amounting to $975.50, was quickly raised, and to render all the aid
in their power, the Board in a corporate capacity donated $2,000 more, making an
aggregate from this class of men of nearly $3,000.
It is no more than we could have expected from them.
The
next move made was a call of the Sanitary Commission for surgeons and nurses to
go to the scene of the battle to aid in caring for the wounded.
This was promptly responded to by many of our best citizens.
The following is the list of
Surgeons.
Dr. Warren Miller,
Dr. Geo. K. Ammerman,
" J. P. Ross,
" E. L.
Holmes,
" Alex.
Fisher,
" James
Bloodgood,
" Chas. G. Smith,
" L. D. Boone,
" R. C. Hamill,
" Edwin Powell,
" J. P. Lynn,
" Davison,
" E. Ingalls,
" C. H.
Ray.
" S. Wickersham,
" C. H. Ray.
Dr. Gillette.
The following persons volunteered as
Nurses:
E. B. Wright
A. S. Chadbourne,
Sam'l. Polkey,
Frank Mehler,
Theron Potter,
Frank Beasley,
Walter B. Scates,
S. H. Bottomley,
Alonzo Atkinson,
A. C. Matchette,
John Zhan.
A. S. Phelps,
W. H. Tilton,
J. M. Loomis,
Eugene Marguerat,
Ed. Bacon,
U.F. Linder, jr.,
B. W. Thomas,
Addison Graves,
S. M. Wilcox,
C. J. Hutchings,
J. M. English,
John R. Parsons,
M. Tuttle,
Amos Jackson,
Paul Cormell,
T. J. Sloan,
S. H. Smith,
Miss Skeer,
G. B. Smith,
G. W. Wilson,
Jas. Nesbitt,
Carlisle Mason,
A. H. Boyden,
Reverend Rob't. Collyer,
W. W. Stewart,
J. E. Morse,
D. L. Moody.
H. D. Aylesworth,
N. W. Farley,
Jas. E. Aikin,
H. C. Mowry,
Mrs. D. F. Kimball,
Thos. Sexton,
H. S.
Sackett,
John Dixon,
J. E. Maple,
C. W. Hawley,
Geo. See,
J. B. Annis,
C. E. Allen,
H. C. Hollingsworth.
The
above nurses and surgeons left the city on a special train over the Illinois
Central Road for Cairo at five o'clock last evening, and are to be put through
to that city by eight o'clock this morning.
While some of our readers are sipping their coffee and reading their
paper at breakfast, the delegation will be embarking upon a steamer, prepared
and in readiness for the purpose, and starting upon their way to Pittsburg
Landing.
Col. C.
G. Hammond, of the C. B. & Q. R. R., went to Quincy on Tuesday night,
accompanied by Dr. Brock McVickar, for the purpose of bringing a steamer, the
property of his road, into immediate use for the accommodation of the soldiers,
the surgeons and nurses.
With
the Chicago delegation went one hundred and four boxes of hospital supplies from the Sanitary
Commission, and at Cairo this number will be largely increased by a quantity of
the same supplies already shipped, and which will be taken also to Pittsburg
Landing.
All
honor to the Board of Trade, the surgeons and nurses and the Sanitary
Commission. They are doing a noble
work.
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, April 10, 1862, p. 4, c. 3
Dispatch from Gen. Strong--Prompt Action of the Board of Trade.
The Chicago Sanitary Committee received a dispatch this
morning from General Strong, commandant at Cairo, asking for surgeons, nurses
and medical stores, immediately for our wounded soldiers in Tennessee.
He states our probable loss in the great battle at 10,000.
The announcement was made at the Board of Trade at noon, and a private
subscription of between $400 and $500 was raised on the spot.
The Board also unanimously voted to contribute $2,000 to be given to the
Sanitary Committee for the benefit of the sick and wounded soldiers.
That amount not being in the treasury, in cash, George Watson, Esq.,
Treasurer of the Board promptly offered to advance the sum on behalf of the
Board.
Let our
citizens follow this noble example, and promptly and generously help the
Sanitary Committee in their good work.
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, April 11, 1862, p. 1, c. 1
Wisconsin Takes Care of Her Soldiers.
So far as can be now learned, there were four Wisconsin
regiments in the battle at Pittsburgh Landing.
As soon as Governor Harvey ascertained the fact, he telegraphed to the
Chamber of Commerce in Milwaukee, to Janesville and to Beloit, appealing to the
citizens of those cities to furnish immediately such surgical materials
as could be gathered, and forwarded to this city.
The Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, on receipt of the telegraph at noon on
Wednesday, voted at once $200, to bear the expenses of Drs. Wolcott and
Bartlett, the best surgeons in the city, and of sending the desired articles. Gen. E. H. Brodhead, a prominent gentleman of the same city,
accompanies them to assist in their humane mission.
Gov.
Harvey and Commissary General Wadsworth arrived last evening at the Tremont,
where they were met by the Milwaukee delegation, and to-morrow morning the whole
party, consisting of the Governor, his Secretary, General Brodhead, and nine
surgeons, leave on the Illinois Central Railroad for their destination, taking
with them ninety boxes of hospital
supplies for the wounded Wisconsin soldiers.
When we consider that these abundant supplies were raised within less
than twenty-four hours, by the three cities that we have mentioned, and by the
people of Madison, we can but accord honor to the prompt benevolence which is
thus manifested, and to the energy and humanity of Gov. Harvey.
The Illinois Central, with its usual patriotism, carries the surgical material, free. If the
State authorities everywhere took as good care of their volunteers as those of
Wisconsin do of theirs, there will be little neglect to complain of.
All honor to them.
CHICAGO
DAILY TRIBUNE, April 11, 1862, p. 1, c. 5
Cairo, Wednesday, April 9, 1862.
The
Chicago delegation of physicians and nurses, arrived this morning, and have gone
to Pittsburgh in the hospital steamer Louisiana.
Dr.
McVickar is here awaiting the arrival of Gov. Yates, on the steamer from Quincy,
to see specially to the Illinois wounded soldiers, and will establish a depot
hospital here for our sick and wounded. No
official despatches [sic] received here this morning.
Gov.
Yates will arrive to-night with about 100 surgeons and nurses en
route for the Tennessee River to look after wounded soldiers.
The
surgeons and nurses from Chicago--seventy in number--arrived by special train
this morning and were placed by Gen. Strong on board the hospital boat Louisiana
and dispatched at once u p the Tennessee.
Gov. Morton, of Ind., telegraphs Gen. Strong that thirty or forty surgeons would
leave in special boat from Evansville for Pittsburg, Tenn., this evening.
Other delegations of surgeons and nurses from various Sanitary
Commissions in Illinois will arrive in the morning and will be sent forward
promptly to Pittsburg.
Cairo, April 10, 1862.
Every preparation possible is being made for the reception and care of our
wounded at this point.
CHICAGO
DAILY TRIBUNE, April 11, 1862, p. 1, c. 6
St.
Louis, April 10.--Two steamers fitted up as floating hospitals left here
yesterday for the Tennessee river. Large
contributions of all kinds, and supplies are being made to-day to furnish two
more, which will leave this evening.
The
Western Sanitary Commission are moving earnestly and energetically with this
matter, and every effort will be made for speedy relief to our wounded soldiers
at Pittsburg Landing.
Evansville, Ind., April 10.--The steamer Charley Bowen left here at 11 A.M. for
Pittsburg Landing with a delegation of surgeons and nurses, and a full supply of
hospital stores, from Indianapolis and Watwick county, Ind.
They will take on board another delegation of surgeons and supplies from
Posey county, Ind., at Mount Vernon.
Peoria,
April 10.--$1,700 in money and one car load of delicacies have been contributed
by the citizens of this place for the benefit of the wounded at Pittsburg.
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, April 11, 1862, p. 1, c. 7
To a Generous Public--In Behalf of the Wounded Soldiers.
Brigadier General Strong commanding at Cairo made
requisition by telegraph yesterday upon the Chicago Sanitary Commission for
surgeons and nurses saying, "The slaughter up the Tennessee has been
terrible."
The
Commission promptly chartered a special train and two of the members left
yesterday at 5 o'clock, accompanied by sixteen surgeons, fifty-two nurses,
having in charge a car load of special stores.
The
Commission have labored assiduously for some weeks past and have forwarded all
the goods they possibly could in advance of the battle, having sent special agents to accomplish
this end. But notwithstanding all
they have done and can do, there exists a great and pressing want.
Thousands of our brethren are suffering; we must relieve them.
All was done yesterday that could be accomplished on so short notice.
Will not our citizens send in to-day
to the Commission Rooms No. 41 Wabash Avenue, delicacies for the sick, bottled
ale, or porter, brandy, sheets, shirts, drawers, towels, bandages, single bed
ticks, and money?
An
officer of the Commission will leave in charge of such stores as may be sent in
at once, and see to their distribution personally.
Let the people of Chicago act promptly.
By
order of Chicago Sanitary Commission.
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, April 11, 1862, p. 4, c. 3
The City Council Votes $10,000 Relief Fund for Our Wounded.
A special meeting of the council was held yesterday
afternoon, present:--Aldermen Bottsford, Joy, Tittsworth, Myers, Holden,
Salomon, Hubbard, Harvey, White, Prindiville, Perkins, Comisky, McDonald--being
just a quorum. It was voted to
appropriate $10,000 for the relief of our wounded at Pittsburg Landing, one half
to be delivered at once to Hon. Mark Skinner, President of the Sanitary
Commission, and the balance held subject to order. This generous action will give unalloyed satisfaction to all
our people.
Surgeons--The following is a corrected list of the surgeons who volunteered to
go to Pittsburg Landing, and who left on Wednesday for that place, via the
Illinois Central Road:
Dr. Warren Miller,
Dr. Geo. K. Amerman,
" J. P. Ross,
" E. L. Holmes,
" Alex Fisher,
" James
Bloodgood,
" Chas. G. Smith,
" L. D.
Boone,
" R. C. Hamill,
" Edwin
Powell,
" J. P. Lynn,
" Davison,
" E. Ingalls,
" Hemingway,
" S. Wickersham,
" Robt. L.
Rea.
Dr. Gillette.
CHICAGO
DAILY TRIBUNE, April 12, 1862, p. 1, c. 1
The
Sanitary Commission in this city is overrun with applicants, ambitious to serve
our wounded at Cairo. Some even come from a distance to offer themselves.
We are requested, therefore, to announce that no more are needed at
present, and that the Commission has no power to pass surgeons or nurses except
in an exigency [?] upon special authority being given from headquarters at
Springfield or Cairo.
CHICAGO
DAILY TRIBUNE, April 12, 1862, p. 1, c. 6
From Cairo. Special Dispatch to the
Chicago Tribune. Cairo, April 11,
1862.
Gov.
Yates arrived this morning from Springfield, en
route for Tennessee, to look after the wounded of the Illinois regiments.
He was welcomed with a salute from Fort Cairo.
Cairo
is filled with physicians, nurses and civilians from Chicago, Springfield,
Indiana and Iowa, all desirous of going up the Tennessee.
The civilians will all be disappointed, as Gen. Halleck, before his
departure yesterday, issued stringent orders against granting passes.
A large
number of wounded were brought down from Pittsburg this morning to the Mound
City Hospital.
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, April 12, 1862, p. 1, c. 6
Telegraph Direct to Savannah, Tenn.
Louisville,
April 11.--Telegraphic communication was opened between here and Savannah,
Tenn., this afternoon.
Forty
physicians and nurses arrived from Frankfort this evening and immediately left
on the steamers Autocrat for Fort Donelson and Pittsburgh Landing.
Several other boats with similar aid are passing down the river from this
city and elsewhere.
CHICAGO
DAILY TRIBUNE, April 12, 1862, p. 2, c. 6
[Dispatch to the Chicago Sanitary Commission.]
Cairo, April 11.--Seven hundred of the wounded from Pittsburg Landing reached
here this morning. Among them were
Colonels Haynie, Hix, and Ransom.
The
Chicago delegation for the Tennessee, left last evening on the Louisiana.
CHICAGO
DAILY TRIBUNE, April 12, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
Female Nurses--The following named ladies have been appointed a committee by the
Sanitary Commission for the purpose of examining and receiving female nurses for
our hospitals, and they are requested to meet at the room of the Sanitary
Commission, this forenoon at 10 o'clock.
Mrs. A. Hoge,
Mrs. E. Warner,
" D. P. Livermore,
" Morgan,
" Elisha Wadsworth
" Sloan,
" Wm. H. Osborn,
" Dr.
Tiffany,
" J. C. Haines,
" Jno. M.
Wilson,
" O. E. Hosmer,
" Dr.
Everts.
Applications to be made immediately at the Sanitary Commission room.
A
Correction.--Among the names of those who recently left this city at the call of
humanity to minister to our wounded at Pittsburg, that of Dr. Eugene Margaurat
was incorrectly given as among the nurses. This does injustice to the position and mission of Dr. M.
He has just come among us from Ithaca, New York, and brings an excellent
reputation as a man and a surgeon of value and excellent skill.
He is doubtless among the "nurses," but will, by his skill and
acquirements, serve an even higher purpose.
This correction is due him, though following tardily the list published
two days since.
To
Clergymen--It is suggested that the clergymen of the several churches in the
city would do a good work towards aiding the Sanitary Committee in their efforts
to afford help and comfort to our wounded and sick soldiers, by receiving
supplies and announcing the fact at their places of worship on the coming
Sabbath. In this way many sheets,
towels and other needful articles might be contributed by persons who would not
think of bringing them to the depot of the Sanitary Commission, and the
clergymen receiving them could thus do much good at this moment of great need.
CHICAGO
DAILY TRIBUNE, April 14, 1862, p. 1, c. 2
The great fleet of over one hundred transports poured into the very heart of
Secessia, that which some military medical man terms the "blue mass for the
cure of the rebellion." Savannah,
in Hardin county, on the east bank of the river, was made Gen. Grant's
headquarters, but the bulk of the troops were thrown forward to Pittsburg
Landing, twelve miles further up the river on the opposite bank.
Savannah is a town of 1,500 inhabitants.
The bluff there is bold and high, the town lying a little back.
Dr. Reilly reached Savannah on Tuesday, April 1st.
Gen. Grant's headquarters were in the large brick house of Mr. Cherry, on
the verge of the bluff, a sound Union man.
There were only three regiments there at that time, the 52d and 53d
Illinois, the 52d Indiana, and the troop of Capt. Ned Osband, detached from Col.
Dickey's 4th Illinois Cavalry as Gen. Grant's body guard.
Gen. Grant daily went up the river on his steamer, the Tigress, to
supervise operations at Pittsburg. On
this day, Tuesday, he had sent an expedition of one thousand men with three
gunboats, up the river beyond Pittsburg to a point two miles above Hamburg, to
take a rebel masked battery there posted. This
was easily accomplished, the enemy having deserted it on the approach of our
forces, leaving behind six fine 32-pounders, which our boys spiked.
During
that day, at Savannah, heavy firing was heard at Pittsburg, causing great
uneasiness and endless flying rumors of a battle in progress, all relieved by
the return of the Tigress, when it was known that it was only artillery practice
in our camps.
...On Wednesday Dr. Reilly went up the river on the Tigress, to join the
regiment to which he had been assigned, the 45th, Lead Mine, above referred to.
... [description of Pittsburg Landing] On
the plateau is one log cabin, now the camp bakery.
On the crest of the bluff is the military post office, and this is all
there is [column 3] of Pittsburg Landing.
... Two
miles ride through the forest brings the observer to the first token of
civilization, a small clearing of less than one hundred acres, with a small farm
house and its contiguous negro quarters, a dozen or so scattered cotton bales,
all giving the Southern characteristic traits to the premises.
The brigade to which Dr. Reilly's regiment belonged we have already
spoken of, as commanded by Col. C. C. Marsh, and comprising the 11th, 17th, 20th
and 48th Illinois regiments, with cavalry and artillery attached (and detached)
as aforesaid. The week was passed
by the young surgeon in the active duties of the camp hospital.
There was enough to do to prevent the rust of idleness from gathering
upon him, and yet the interim sufficed to allow him an intelligent observation
of the great camp. A reference to
the diagram will save us a column of description as to location of forces.
... The
days were occupied with brigade and regimental reviews, held most of them on the
large natural opening set down in one diagram.
Gen. Grant and his staff came up the river daily.
Saturday was set down for a grand division review.
On Thursday evening, in lovely moonlight, the splendid band of the Lead
Mine Regiment serenaded Gen. McClernand at his headquarters, about two miles and
a half from Pittsburg, and that officer responded in a stirring speech to his
men. And [column 4] here an
incident. In the hospital tent near
at hand lay a poor fellow in the low stage of typhus. As the liquid strains of the band floated out upon the night,
there was a hushed stillness among the camps as the air became "Home, Sweet
Home," and the sick man with a groan turned his face to the canvas wall,
and died with the last notes of the music, which in that far off camp hospital
brought back too forcibly upon h is mind the joys and comforts of home, never
sweeter than where they minister at the sick couch.
... The
ambulances were made ready, the sick who could walk were sent off to make their
way to the landing. The hospitals were to be cleared for the wounded.
There was not time to spare; the air rang with the volleys of musketry,
and so near had the tide of war rolled, that in
fifteen minutes after the 45th went out of camp their wounded began to come
in, first those who could walk unaided, then those more grievously stricken
borne on stretchers by their comrades.
By half
past 8 o'clock, the Federal line had been driven back, and the balls began to
fall thickly about the camp. We are
writing of the 45th Illinois. The
din was terrific. The wounded were
hastily ordered down into the ravine described earlier in this account, and
there under the trees the surgeons fell again at work.
In this removal there were no ambulances, and Dr. Reilly had great
difficulty in removing his patients.
The 77th Ohio, which had broken and run in Gen. Sherman's line, came
streaming by, and some of these were persuaded to aid in carrying the cots. One of these men Dr. Reilly had difficulty in persuading to
render this service. Not ten
minutes after himself following the wounded, the Dr. saw the same Ohioan
stretched on the ground, bleeding to death from a wound in the neck which
severed the carotid artery. "Ah,"
said the poor fellow, recognising [sic] the surgeon as he bent over him,
"If you hadn't stopped [column 5] me, I should not have lost my life."
They were his last words. If
he shared in a cowardice which endangered the whole day, the poor fellow
expiated it in a last act of humanity.
The
storm of battle now raged furiously. The
shot and shell hissed and screamed harmlessly over the surgeons who were at
their humane labors in the ravine. Then
came a lull in the firing in this part of the line. ...
In
following the advance of the brigade, Dr. Reilly dressed the wounds of three
rebels. They told him they belonged
to a Mississippi regiment that had arrived at the rebel camp from Bainsville
only the night before, and had come in at double quick, seven miles to the
battlefield, getting in just in time to fall in to line, and be ordered up with
the reserve under Breckinridge, 15,000 strong.
All agreed in this statement. ...
.....
If we leave to other accounts the further details of this part of the field, it
is for a reason directly traceable to some rebel rifleman, for Dr. Reilly here
was the recipient of a Minie ball, which passed through the calf of his leg,
just grazing the fibula, the ball making for itself an adit and exit of the open
character that pertains to its to its [sic] class of missiles.
Perhaps an episode from the mouth of a medical man may not be out of
place in a battle account. How it
feels to be shot in battle. The
sensation, says Dr. Reilly, was precisely that of a smart blow on the leg.
There is nothing of a piercing, cutting or tearing pain, the swift
missile taking the nerves entirely by surprise, and deadening the adjacent parts
before sensation can begin. It was
time for Dr. Reilly to go to the rear, and so departing, the wounded lost an
excellent surgeon, and our readers the continuance of his observations on the
fight.
... The
nearer the approach to the river the greater the throng of wounded and
stragglers. There was an
interminable and inextricable confusion of vehicles of all classes pressing
hither and thither. Ambulances
bound to the steamers at the landing, or on their return.
Ammunition wagons full and empty. Commissary
and Quartermaster's teams struggled and got tangled with each other in the main
roads. ... We must follow the wounded surgeon on board the hospital steamer City
of Memphis, which was filled with the wounded.
She took two loads of wounded to Savannah, where excellent hospital
preparations had been made, though limited in extent.
If Dr. Reilly remained on board and preferred to bring his wound much
farther northward for treatment, no one will blame him. "The Grove" is quite another place from a crowded
military hospital.
As the
City of Memphis came down the river the transports were busy bringing over
Buell's division. The aspect and
the feeling among our soldiers was blue, and the general opinion was that the
day was lost. The arrival of Buell
was a ray of light ahead.
CHICAGO
DAILY TRIBUNE, April 14, 1862, p. 1, c. 6
Cairo, April 12--12M.
Large delegations arrived this morning from all directions bound up the
Tennessee. Gov. Harvey, of
Wisconsin, and suite, are here, and were received with a salute from Fort Cairo.
CHICAGO
DAILY TRIBUNE, April 14, 1862, p. 1, c. 7
Cairo, April 12--10 P.M.
The body of Gen. Wallace of Ottawa, accompanied by his staff and Col. F. L.
Dickey, arrived on the steamer Woodford this evening.
She brought down some 600 prisoners, on their way to St. Louis.
A special train with the body of Gen. Wallace will leave this evening for
Ottawa. ... Gov. Harvey and party with a boat load of hospital stores left this
evening to relieve the wounded.
Cairo, April 13--10 P.M. The
following is a list of Illinois soldiers wounded at the battle of Pittsburgh--in
the Mound city Hospital. ... Gen. Strong and staff visited the Mount City
Hospitals personally, to look after the interests of the wounded.
CHICAGO
DAILY TRIBUNE, April 14, 1862, p. 1, c. 9
Louisville, April 13.--The steamer Minnehaha arrived to-day with about 240
wounded soldiers from Pittsburg Landing, whereof one-fourth are rebels.
[Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette.] Aboard Steamer Commodore Perry,
Evansville, April 11, 1862. We send
you a list of wounded taken from the field at Pittsburg Landing and conveyed
aboard the steamer Commodore Perry on the 8th inst., the day after the fight at
that place. We arrived there on
Tuesday, at 4 P.M., with five hundred troops from Nashville, expecting to be in
time for the fight, but we were a little too late, so I immediately organized
those under my command, and sent them into the field to gather up the wounded
and bring them aboard. We left
there Wednesday at 3 o'clock P.M., under the advice and assistance of Dr.
Murray, Medical Director of Gen. Buell's forces, one of the most kind and
efficient Surgeons in the field. Every
attention was shown us at Paducah by Drs. Austin and Haines, contributing
largely to the comfort of the wounded. ...
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, April 14, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
Our State Officers.
The earnestness and promptness with which Gov. Yates and
his Adjutant, Gen. Fuller, are going to work for the relief of the wounded
Illinois troops at Pittsburg Landing, are worthy of unqualified praise.
We only regret that they have not at their command more abundant
resources, that their power to do might be commensurate with their will; but
that they will make the wisest use of the means at their disposal there can be
no doubt. The thousands of families
in Illinois who will be stricken as a result of the struggle, when they are
known, and the men of right feeling everywhere, have cause to bless the noble
promptings of the hearts that have thrown themselves into this humane work.
Yet this is the Governor every fibre [sic] of whose being is alive to the
honor of the State and the interest of her sons, whom that bogus Convention
would legislate out of office to make way for Hacker, Buckmaster, or O'Melveny,
or another of that ilk.
CHICAGO
DAILY TRIBUNE, April 14, 1862, p. 2, c. 3-7
As your correspondent reached the third line of our forces, he met several
thousands of stragglers, many of them from the hospitals, but many more who had
never before witnessed the service of the battle-field, and who, so far, had not
found it much to their liking. Their
faces were turned to the river and neither persuasion nor threats could induce
them to change their course. I must
say, that at this juncture, your correspondent was strongly reminded of the
great panic at Bull Run, for appearances indicated that the same scenes were
likely to be re-enacted upon this occasion.
Men and women came promiscuously, singly and by dozens, filling the road,
limping, staggering along, in some cases supported on the arms of comrades or
others, but all having the same destination, and bent on the accomplishment of
the same purpose, viz: To escape from the sound of the whizzing balls, which were
flying in every direction. ...
All the
wagons and other vehicles of transportation on their way to the camps were
turned back, and the road given as far as was practicable to the use of the
ambulances, which were now getting to be very plenty.
They were not, however, sufficient for the demands of the occasion, there
being in many cases but two to each regiment, and heavy army wagons were used to
make up the deficiency. These
rattled along over the hagged [sic] road, through the mud, over roots and
stones, filled to the top with the wounded and such of the sick as were unable
to leave the regimental hospitals without assistance. ... Foot by foot the
ground was contested, a single narrow strip of open land dividing the opponents.
Not having had time in their hasty departure from their camps to bring
forward the hand stretchers so necessary for the easy transportation of the
wounded, such available means as were at hand were adopted, and the soldier's
outstretched blanket received his crippled comrade, as the only available method
by which he could be carried to the rear. Many
who were maimed fell back without help, while others still fought in the ranks
until they were actually forced back by their company officers. ... Some of our
Ohio regiments have suffered severely, although the number of those severely
wounded is comparatively small. Gun
shots in the arms and legs are very plentiful, it seemingly having been the
object of the enemy to wound rather than kill outright, being in adherence to
the policy that it requires four men to take care of one wounded, while none are
required to look after the dead.
The Scene at Midnight
As I sit to-night, writing this epistle, the dead and
wounded are all around me. The
knife of the surgeon is busy at work, and amputated legs and arms lie scattered
in every direction. The cries of
the suffering victim, and the groans of those who patiently await for medical
attendance, are most distressing to any one who has any sympathy with his fellow
man. All day long they have been
coming in, and they are placed upon the decks and within the cabins of the
steamers, and wherever else they can find a resting place.
I hope my eyes may never again look upon such sights.
Men with their entrails protruding, others with broken arms and legs,
others with bullets in their breasts or shoulders, and one poor wretch I found
whose eyes had been shot entirely away. All
kinds of conceivable wounds are to be seen, in all parts of the body, and from
all varieties of weapons.
It is
midnight, and beside the cries of distress, all is silent, save the hourly
discharge of a broadside from the gunboats, sending heavy shells into the
vicinity of the enemy's camps. I should judge that they are having rather a sleepless night,
under the circumstances. The rain
is beginning to fall heavily and mercilessly on the poor wounded who are exposed
to its peltings. Every particle of
sheltered space is occupied by them, and yet there are hundreds who have no
protection from the storm. Yet
these are the circumstances incidental to this terrible war.
... As
I write this I just learn of the deaths of Lieutenant Colonel Canfield, of the
Seventy-second Ohio, Capt. Bertram of the Fifty-fourth Ohio, and Capt. Warner of
the Forty-eighth Ohio. The case of
the former named officer is peculiarly affecting.
His amiable lady has reached here, in company with her young son, in time
to learn that her husband has been sent to Savannah severely wounded. He is now dead, and his body has been placed aboard the J. W.
Pattin for transportation to Paducah.
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, April 14, 1862, p. 4, c. 4
Wanted for the Wounded.
The Sanitary Commission want drawers, sheets, shirts and
bed sacks immediately.
Preparations need to be made for six thousand wounded.
Recent dispatches urge the immediate forwarding of these supplies in
utmost haste. The Sanitary
Commission are having new articles prepared, but those that can spare articles
already made can accomplish more good than at any time since the commencement of
the war. Please send to the rooms
of the Sanitary commission, No. 41 Wabash Avenue, at once.
CHICAGO
DAILY TRIBUNE, April 15, 1862, p. 1, c. 2
Cairo, April 14, 9 o'clock p.m.--The Hiawatha brought down 260 wounded to Mound
City, to-day at noon. An adequate
supply of transports lying at Pittsburg have been loaded with the wounded ready
to come. Some go to
Cincinnati.
The
Cincinnati Sanitary Commission did nobly in relievin