DAILY MISSOURI
REPUBLICAN
January 12 - August 20, 1862
DAILY
MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, January 20, 1862, p. 3, c. 5
Look on this
Picture.
An untidy woman.
Little soap and much perfume. Plenty
of jewelry, and a lack of strings and buttons.
Silks and laces, and tattered underclothes.
Diamond rings and soiled collar. Feathers
and flowers and battered cap frill. Silk stockings and shabby boots.
Who has
not seen her? If you are a person
of courage, enter her dressing-room. Make
your way over the carpet through mismated slippers, tippets, belt ribbons, hair
pins, pictorials, magazines, fashion prints and unpaid bills, and look vainly
round for a chair that is sufficiently free from dust to sit down upon.
Look at the dingy muslin window-curtains, the questionable bed-quilt and
pillow-cases, the *unfreshness* of everything your eye falls upon.
Open the closet door and see the piles of dresses, all wanting the
"stitch-in-time," heaped pell-mell upon their pegs; see the bandboxes
without covers, and all the horrible paraphernalia of a lazy, inefficient,
vacant, idealess female monstrosity, who will of course be chosen out of a bevy
of good, practical, common sense girls, by some man who prides himself on his
"knowledge of women," as his "helpmeet for life?"
I use
the word "monstrosity" advisedly; for even in the cell of a prison I
have seen wretched females trying, with woman's beautiful instinct, to brighten
and beautify the bare walls with some rude-colored print.
Thank
Heaven, the untidy woman is the exception, not the rule.
And on This.
You see this lady,
turning a cold eye to the assurances of shopmen and the recommendation of
milliners--she cares not how original a pattern may be, if it be ugly, or how
recent a shape, if it be awkward; whatever law's fashion dictates, she follows a
law of her own, and is never behind it; she wears beautiful things, which people
generally suppose to be fetched from Paris, or at least made by a French
milliner, but which as often are bought at the nearest town, and made up by her
own maid, not that her costume is either rich or new; on the contrary, she wears
many a cheap dress, but it is pretty; and many an old one, but it is good; she
deals in no gaudy confusion of colors, nor does she affect a studied sobriety;
but she either refreshes you with a spirited contrast, or composes you with a
judicious harmony; not a scrap of tinsel or trumpery appears upon her; she puts
no faith in velvet bands or gilt buttons or twisted cording; she is quite aware,
however, that the garnish is as important as the dress; all her inner borders
and beadings are delicate and fresh; and should anything peep out which is not
intended to be seen, it is quite as much so as that which is.
After
all, there is not great art either in her fashion or materials; the secret
simply consists in her honoring the three great unities of dress--her own
station, her own eye, and her own points--and no woman can dress well who does
not.
After
this, we need not say that whoever is attracted by the costume will not be
disappointed in the wearer; she may not be handsome or accomplished, but we will
answer for her being even-tempered, well informed, thoroughly sensible, and a
complete lady.
DAILY
MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, February 9, 1862, p. 1, c. 9
From Le Follet.
Paris Fashions.
The articles most recently employed for indoor dress are droguets, reps,
and woolen terry velvets; silk, satin, moire, terry, and plain velvets are
patronized for visiting, or for full dress.
Soutache is still the favorite ornament, and is applied to all materials,
and for any style of dress. Cloaks,
also are handsomely braided. In
fact, this trimming is employed wherever it can be advantageously introduced.
Astracan is still in great favor, but swansdown has been introduced for
full dress, and has a very elegant effect.
The skirts of dresses are worn very full, and long behind.
Tight sleeves are very rarely seen.
The most fashionable shape for this present month is open, rather short,
and small. The trimming is not
generally placed at the edge, but a little below the elbow.
The bodies are made open down the front, but have usually a small piece
of the same material as the skirt detached from the corsage, but which can be
put under the opening for out-of-door wear.
They are fastened by buttons, unless they have some trimming down the
front which necessitates a flat surface. Some
bodies are attached quite on one side, or the fastening begins on the shoulder
and ends at the waist on the opposite side.
Many corsages are so trimmed as to give the appearance of a jacket, the
ornament ending at the waist under the arm.
Pockets are still worn ornamented, but, instead of being sewn on the
outside as formerly, the opening only is seen.
Silk flounces are worn pinked or bound; the former style is the more
elegant. They are sometimes set on
in large plaits, in which case they are hemmed.
We have seen some silk dresses made with one deep flounce, and two small
ones placed above; and with an upper skirt to fall and meet the top flounce.
Both flounces and skirts were pinked.
the body of this dress was made open, with open sleeves, and rather
short, and both trimmed with a frill pinked at each edge.
For ball dresses, nothing is so elegant or so distingue in effect as
tarlatane skirts, with flounces pinked, and headed by bouillonnes, over colored
ribbon, or chickoree [sic?] ruches
of silk. A colored tarlatane skirt,
to match the ribbons or ruchings, is worn under the white one.
Colored tarlatane and crapes are worn, but are scarcely so simple or
recherche. Lace flounces are
generally lined with crape or tarlatane, either white or colored, to impart a
little stiffness to them. Satin dresses, with lace flounces, will be worn for full
dress by married ladies. For
elderly ladies we have noticed some velvet dresses, opening down the front, over
satin, moire, or watered silk. The
under skirt is generally handsomely embroidered or trimmed with lace.
We remarked one dress in particular made in this style.
It was of violet velvet; the edge of the opening embroidered in grapes
and leaves—the latter worked in gold, and the grapes formed of pearls.
The under skirt was of white satin, with a wide bouillonne of white or
white satin, with a wide bouillonne of white crape, cross barred with narrow
gold braid. The body, a la Raphael,
opened over white satin, and was ornamented like the skirt.
Opera cloaks are still worn in the form of the burnous. some are made as paletots but the burnous has the advantage
of being more easily removed. They
are made of satin, silk, and terry velvet, cachemire, or plush, and are
handsomely braided, embroidered, or edged
with lace.—When made in plush, they are usually edged with a large silk cord,
with tassels at each corner. The
cachemire opera cloaks are spotted with gold, or silver.
For out door wear the basquine demi adjustee [sic?]
has many advocates. The
newest model of the season in this shape is made of velvet not very long,
splendidly embroidered in plumettes, and buttoned a la Polonaise.
The Pardesus, trimmed with fur, is made in velvet, with large sleeves,
and the fur bordering is very deep. For
aras [?] de toilette, the velvette mantle, richly embroidered and trimmed with
handsome flounces of lace, is the most elegant that can be worn.
Some small paletots are being worn made of plush or velvet cloth, and
fastened by large buttons. The
sleeves and collar are lined with quilled silk.
Bonnets are worn composed of two colors.
For instance, black velvet, trimmed with colored flowers or feathers.
For full dress, the curtain and passe are generally made of tulle or
blonde. Bonnets are still made
large, but not of the unbecoming shape recently worn.
They are rather flat, instead of being pointed at the top.
Colored pipings are no longer considered in good taste, having become so
very common. Among the various
bonnets which come under our inspection, we noticed one of a very simple and
elegant character, and especially deserving of our attention. The passe, curtain and crown, which were light, were made of
black silk, spotted with beads in clusters of five. The calotte was of black velvet, with a small black lace at
each edge, and the inside was of white blonde, trimmed with a ruche, and a small
bunch of moss roses; the strings of silk, edged with beads.
DAILY
MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, February 20, 1862, p. 3, c. 3
Cairo, February 18.
Governor Yates, ex-Governor Wood, Auditor Dubois, and many prominent citizens
from all parts of Illinois, are here to look after the wounded Illinois soldiers
from Fort Donelson.
Govern
Morton and many prominent citizens of Indiana are also here for a like purpose
on account of the gallant men of that State who participated in the battle. ...
The
question of what to do with them was discussed among the commanding officers
here last night, and the conclusion seemed to be that they will be divided--a
portion going to Alton, another portion going to Chicago, and probably a third
portion to Fort Wayne and Detroit.
DAILY
MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, February 27, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
Copy of a
Secesh Letter to his Lady Love,
taken at Fort Donelson.
Camp Alcorn, Hopkinsville, Ky.,
}
January 4th, 1862. }
Miss Pattie: It is with the
purest of motives that we write you these lines.
We are now in the army of our country, deprived of the enjoyment of the
society of loved friends at home, and the greatest satisfaction we have is in
communicating with those we have left behind, in whose company we once took
delight. And though our
acquaintance with you is
limited, yet it is nothing but truth to say that the impression you have made
upon our mind to desire to place you in the catalogue of absent friends, and to
communicate with you as such.
It is true that the impression you have made upon us must last while
memory exists, and though we should fall before the enemies of our country amid
the smoke of battle and the clangor of arms, the last recollection of our mortal
existence will be of our native Southern land and the fair and beautiful ladies
that inhabit the same.
Since we have left our friends and peaceful homes we have learned by
experience what we knew from reason before, that is, that the soldier's life is
very hard. But who with one drop of
patriotic blood in his veins could refuse to respond to the call of his invaded
country? Our once happy country is
now bleeding at every pore. A
mighty host of vandals and infidels have seized the reins of Government and
trampled under their unhallowed feet the Constitution of our fathers, and in
their madness have set at defiance the holy edict of sacred write, and declare
that there is a higher law that must govern the actions of the free people of
America. A tyrant more odious than
ever reigned in the kingdoms and empires of Europe, is now enthroned in the
cerulean chair of state, and his anathematical denunciation (that the South must
submit to him) has gone forth and is irrevocable.
And now to carry out his nefarious designs, he has called out the largest
armies ever drilled in modern times, and has sent them forth, for our
subjugation and everlasting ruin as a people, and they are pouring down upon us
like mighty gathering avalanches, and threatening to overwhelm us in one grand
destructive wreck. Under these
circumstances I would ask again, what patriotic Southern son could refuse to go
and drive away the invaders of his country's liberty?
Our country called us to leave our homes to defend and preserve
untarnished and untouched by the hand of the invader, her fair escutcheon.
Our duty said to us, go, young soldiers, and prove yourselves to be the
sons of immortal sires. Nature, with all her ten thousand tongues, seemed to say to
all the brave of Southern climes, go to the field of battle and preserve for
yourselves and future generations, political and religious liberty.
So we have determined that come what may, weal or woe, death or
prosperity, our country must be free. That
the South will prevail, that her arms will prove invincible, and that the enemy
will fly before them like chaff before the wind of heaven.
And in conclusion, fair Miss Cone, permit us to say that we scarcely hope
that after the smoke of battle and the noise of war shall have passed away; that
when peace shall have hovered over our fertile land, like ministering angels
over the returning prodigal, to see you and enjoy your company and society
again.
There is no rest or enjoyment for us until the land we love the most is
cleared of our enemies. But our
hopes and prayers now are, that the God
that holds the sceptre and controls the destiny of the vast universe, will bring
this war to a speedy and peaceful termination, and that we may yet live to see
all our friends again in a state of happiness and prosperity; and that universal
peace, like a mighty river, pure as the fountain that was opened in the House of
David may spread over the plains of earth and that the rider of the white horse
may again pass over this war distracted continent, followed by the Angel that
has the everlasting gospel to preach to the fallen of Adam's race.
Geo. McLeod.
He was wounded at Fort Donelson and died at the hospital at Mound City,
Illinois, February 3d, 1862.
DAILY
MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, February 27, 1862, p. 4, c. 2
Correspondence of the Cincinnati Commercial
Dover, Tenn., February 20, 1862
... I have for two days been
in search of the aborigines of this God-forsaken land, and have rode about
thirty miles for that purpose. I
have been quite successful, having discovered at least twenty.
The first one was a man by the name of J. B. Bates, who says he has been
a resident of Dover since 1836. I
said to him, Mr. Bates, please tell me candidly whether you think the majority
of your population are glad to see that old flag again, (pointing to the stars
and stripes on the Fort). Sir, said
he, there is not a man, woman or child in all this county but that is shouting
for joy because it has come back again. They
would do anything in the world to have an end of this bloody strife.
Others who have been fighting in the rebel army told me of the ways and
means they had used to get a discharge from a service they never liked.
One man told me that for two months he ate barely enough of his rations
to keep him alive, till he created the belief that he was getting the
consumption when he received a written discharge from his Surgeon.
The natives for two days have been coming up to the opposite side of the
river in considerable numbers, and General Grant has given out word that all
loyal citizens are at liberty to return again to their occupations, and pursue
them unmolested. The facts about
the population here are these: They
will about the loudest and work the hardest for the party who will first put an
end to the war. Their mental
calibre, as a general thing, is not quite equal to a ten inch Columbiad.
Mr. Briggs tells me that when Pillow made his escape, he swam the river
with his horse, and that some of his own men shot at him.
Alas for poor Pillow! "Who so base as to do him honor?" ...
DAILY
MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, March 1, 1862, p. 1, c. 10
Julius Link, Hair Braider, Watch Maker, and Jeweler--Tangled hair can be used in
braiding. All work warranted.
No. 6 South Sixth street, three doors below Market Street, St. Louis.
DAILY
MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, March 1, 1862, p. 4, c. 10
Baldness
Cured!
The Celebrated Camanche Hair Oil.
This
oil may be relied upon as an effectual remedy for Baldness, and also for
promoting a vigorous, health growth of Hair.
For Sale by
Alex. Leitch & Co.,
Marble Buildings,
Corner Fourth and Olive streets.
DAILY
MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, March 1, 1862, p. 4, c. 10
Bullet-Proof
Vests
For sale at
Ticknor & Co.'s
Corner
Fourth st. and Washington Avenue,
as also at their
Branch Houses.
DAILY
MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, March 4, 1862, p. 1, c. 4
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And it will be carefully sent by return mail.
DAILY
MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, March 25, 1862, p. 1, c. 7
From the
Tennessee River.
Steamer Empress off for the Wars.
On Tuesday, the 4th
instant, the steamer Empress left St. Louis, having on board some 700 tons
Commissary stores for Cairo and Paducah, 150 head of cattle for Fort Henry and
Col. Bissell's Engineer Regiment, destined for Gen. Pope's Division at Commerce,
Mo.,; Wednesday landed the troops at Commerce and Commissary stores at Cairo,
coaled and arrived at Paducah on Thursday morning, received on board the
Forty-eighth Ohio Infantry, Col. Sullivan commanding, coaled and arrived at Fort
Henry Friday morning, being the first arrival for the new expedition; the water
had almost completely inundated the Fort; no landing there; proceeded up the
river about seven miles; landed in the brush, alongside the Gladiator, Gen.
McClennand's headquarters, received a present from Lieut. Col. Parker, of the
Forty-eighth, of a splendid American eagle, whose perch is now on the pilot
house of the Empress. Here, on
Saturday, the 8th, commenced a new phase in steamboating--the Empress is
converted into a slaughter house to supply the much needed beef to the army, but
"some things can be done as well as others," and there is room on the
Empress to do almost anything, and Captain Jas. Gormley and his crew are the men
to put things through.
The
bully Forty-eighth, however, did not wait for the butcher, but went ashore, and
finding a number of porkers that were evidently "secesh," (as they
would not take the oath,) they "captivated" them, and soon were frying
spare-ribs and tenderloins. ... Left the bridge on Monday afternoon with the
entire fleet. The departure of this
fleet of ninety boats was a sight seen but once in a life time, and if ever the
writer regretted the lack of artistic powers it was there; but to the Empress.
She held her way in the midst of the fleet until about 4 p.m., when,
espying a large pile of what turned out to be staves, she landed and took them
on board. Not finding the owner, word was left with some neighbors that
she had taken them and would pay for them.
During the evening she passed every boat ahead but one, when a fog arose,
compelling the whole fleet to lie by. ...
Tuesday
morning the fog having cleared away about 9 a.m., started for Savannah, meeting
many demonstrations of loyalty along the shore, and without accident, except
that just above Clifton a man rose up behind a cedar bush and fired at the boat,
fortunately injuring nothing but the collar of a soldier's coat. ... Landed on
the west side of the river, opposite Savannah, at the plantation of Mr. Cherry,
a loyal citizen, who has narrowly escaped hanging two or three times on that
account. His residence is in
Savannah. He is the owner of some
forty slaves. Here some of the
officers were presented with bouquets of hyacinths and other early spring
flowers. Savannah is a pretty
village, situated on the bluff on the east side of the river, the plantation
above alluded to being opposite in the "sandy bottom," and bounded by
a large cane brake, to which the soldiers betook themselves, returning with
thousands of fishing rods, which of course were of no use to them.
At night saw the light of a conflagration to the southwest of Savannah.
Laid here until Friday noon, dispersing commissary stores, when General
Sherman's division (to which the Empress is attached) started for Yellow Creek,
on the west bank of the river just inside the line of Alabama, where we arrived
about 8 p.m. Just before landing, a
young soldier of the Forty-eighth died and was here buried on Saturday. ...
Sunday
morning, 16th, found us at Pittsburgh landing.
Here occurred a curious fulfillment of a presentiment.
Capt. Ireland, of the Forty-eighth, had on Sunday the 2d, requested the
regimental band to practice a funeral march to play at his funeral two weeks
from that day. He also asked a
minister (one of the Seventeenth regiment) to preach his funeral sermon.
He was then in good health, at twenty-five minutes past 12 o'clock he
died of pneumonia, and was buried as he predicted. ...
19th, 7
p.m., left for Savannah. 20th,
discharged balance of commissary stores; river all over the bottoms opposite
Savannah at least eighteen feet higher than when we went up 20th, left for
"home, sweet home." Twenty
miles above Duck river, the timber for some distance along the east bank had
been recently torn down by the wind--not a tree left standing in the track of
the hurricane. Found Fort Henry
completely under water. It is,
however, dismantled. The morning of
the 22d found us on the Father of Waters. 23d,
head wind and slight boat have kept us from our homes all day. Home again.
Oliver.
Note.--The conflagration mentioned turned out to be the burning of forty bales
of cotton by the rebels. The cotton
belonged to Mr. Cherry, of Savannah. It
was within three miles of that place. We
learned at Savannah that on the day previous to our first arrival, there had
been a squad of rebel cavalry there, pressing every able-bodied man into their
service. Many fled to the woods and
got aboard the gunboats, and some 160 enlisted for the war.
DAILY
MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, April 10, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
Rooms Ladies'
Union Aid Society,
Corner Chesnut and Fifth Streets,
St. Louis, April 10, 1862.
To
the Loyal Ladies of this City this Appeal is made:
The intelligence of yesterday calls upon all who can aid us in making
necessary garments for the wounded to come to the Ladies' Union Aid Rooms during
this week.
Any contributions of material, but particularly sheets, shirts and
drawers, will be appropriated to immediate use.
By order of the President.
H. A. Adams, Secretary.
DAILY
MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, April 11, 1862, p. 2, c. 2
Movement Among
Boats--Steamers Ordered Away--
Government Transports in Demand.
Yesterday witnessed
a very considerable movement among the steamboats in this port, and all that
could be made available were ordered into the service of the Government as
transports. Several of them left
for Island No. 10 last evening, light--others had good cargoes of forage. ...
The
Empress left port with a load of corn, hay and oats, and she had her cabin full
of surgeons and female nurses, bound for the scene of the late battle at
Pittsburg, Tennessee river. The
nurses were well supplied with bandages, lint and other things necessary to the
fulfillment of their humane mission to the field of battle.
The
surgeons who have volunteered their aid, were also well equipped with the
various implements of their profession, and will doubtless render good service
to the cause in which they have generously enlisted.
The
steamer Gladiator had on board a large amount of forage, and takes down four or
five thousand mattresses for the benefit of the wounded. She is bound for Tennessee river. The Meteor is also partially loaded with forage and will take
on board another band of philanthropic surgeons and nurses. ...
The
Government will need all the river transportation that can be obtained for some
days to come for the purpose of removing the sick, wounded and prisoners from
Pittsburg and Island No. 10.
DAILY
MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, April 12, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
From our Special correspondent.
Gunboat Tylor [sic], Tennessee River,
April 10, 1862.
The
battle just passed on the banks of the Tennessee, has been by far the bloodiest
ever fought in America. Four
thousand dead men cover the contested field, and steamers one week ago, loaded
with the finest body of troops in the world, now hold a population of mangled
beings, whose piteous groans are ever heard in day time, and constantly startle
the sleeper at night.
Near by
rests the gallant army, panting from the late exertion, and gathering vigor for
that other great struggle now near. Eight
weeks or more two immense forces, the flower of the West and of the South, have
lain close together, so near their pickets constantly met.
Beauregard, who built his name on the rout of a Union army at Manassas,
Sydney Johnston, Bragg of Pensacola, Breckinridge, Polk, and the leading
military talent of the rebellion, headed the Confederate masses, while opposed
to them was the noble army of Donelson, under untried leaders, and the fresh
troops from Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Missouri, who were eager
to win names as their brothers had done. General
Grant, already well known to the people, was Commander-in-Chief.
...
Active measure are being taken to remove the killed and wounded. To-day, forty-two nurses and seventeen physicians went up the
Tennessee. ...
DAILY
MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, April 14, 1862, p. 3, c. 1
The
steamer D. A. January, (in charge of Dr. Hoff, who was detailed to proceed to
the Tennessee river for the removal of a portion of the wounded in the
Pittsburgh battle), arrived opposite this city about 8 o'clock.
The boat had been expected for some hours and large throngs of people
awaited on the Levee during the greater part of the afternoon.
Hospital wagons and ambulances were in readiness to convey the sufferers
from the steamer to the Fifth street Hospital which had been prepared for their
reception, but night coming on, it was decided by the authorities not to remove
the unfortunate victims of the battle until morning.
Notwithstanding the lateness of the hour, quite a multitude gathered on
the wharf, among whom were relatives and friends of soldiers in the army on the
Tennessee, eager to obtain intelligence in regard to the casualties of the
battle, or to ascertain if the objects of their anxiety were on board.
The boat, however, did not land for some time, but remained out in the
stream, whilst Dr. Hoff came ashore in a yaw and at once proceeded to report at
the rooms of the Sanitary Commission, where after consultation, it was decided
to land the boat and place it under guard for the night, and not to remove the
wounded until this morning. But few
were permitted to go on board, for reasons that are apparent.
The sufferers will be taken off at an early hour, and as before said,
placed in the hospital, corner of Chestnut and Fifth streets, which has been
suitably arranged for them--all the patients lately in that establishment having
been transferred to other quarters, with the exception of about thirty in the
fifth story, whose condition was such that they could not be removed.
The
number of wounded soldiers, brought up by the D. A. January is in the
neighborhood of four hundred, bestowed in the berths and upon cots, pallets and
mattresses in the cabin and on the guards.
Those most severely injured were placed in the cabin, a row of pallets
running along each side of the boat. The
situation of the wounded seemed to be as comfortable as it could be made with
good mattresses, pillows and clean sheets, together with male and female
attendence [sic?]. The fortitude
with which the sufferers withstood their pain for the most part unmurmuringly,
was especially to be noted. ...
We are
informed that these wounded soldiers were taken indiscriminately as they were
found on the field, without reference to their regiments or the States from
which they came. Whilst the January
was at Pittsburg landing, two other steamers were loading with the wounded, one
of which was bound for Mound City, and the other for Evansville, Indiana.
DAILY
MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, April 15, 1862, p. 1, c. 9
[Summary: List of 37
Southern civilian prisoners brought in with the Confederate POW's
from Shiloh arrived at St. Louis]
DAILY
MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, April 19, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
The
"Empress" a Hospital.
On Thursday, the
10th instant, the "Empress" left St. Louis for Pittsburg Landing,
having a cargo of forage, horses and cattle, and as passengers, James E. Yeatman,
Esq., President of the Sanitary Commission, Drs. Aspel and Grove, Brigade
Surgeons, and quite a corps of nurses and Hospital attendants, among whom were
Mrs. P. A. Child, Mrs. Wash. King, Mrs. E. D. Couzins, Mrs. Fisk, also seven
Sisters of Mercy and other attendants, also Doctors Barnes, Bywater, Morton,
Rumbold, May, Pollok, Henry, Ennis, Douglass, and others whose names I did not
learn, all volunteers in the cause of humanity.
Arrived at Pittsburg on Sunday, 13th, at 9 A.M., and immediately
commenced receiving the wounded, (the boat having been selected by the
commission for a Hospital.) Got all
the freight out on Tuesday morning and received quite a number of wounded;
proceeded to Savannah and filled up all the beds with sick and sounded, 362 (?)
in number, besides a number of wounded officers, occupying state rooms.
Before
leaving Pittsburg, Mr. Yeatman had secured the steamer "Imperial" also
for a Hospital and had removed his quarters and those of Drs. Grove and Barnes,
and a corps of nurses, on board of her. They
were receiving quite a number of wounded prisoners when we left.
If any
one doubts the fact that the battle of Shiloh was hard fought, he need but see
the piles of broken and injured arms stacked up on the river bank, and to learn
that from Sunday morning until Monday evening the ordnance boat
"Rocket" issued over two hundred tons of fixed ammunition, to have his
doubts dispelled.
...
Arrived at Mound City about 7 p.m. Wednesday, landed for the purpose of putting
off some wounded prisoners, found the hospitals filed.
While waiting the action of the officials, there arose a terrific gale,
driving the empress against the bank, breaking a small steam-pipe creating
considerable alarm and excitement among the sick and wounded on the lower guard
and in the engine-room. Fortunately,
no one was injured, although some who appeared quite ill suddenly forgot their
wounded limbs and got out of the way with the utmost dispatch.
Landed
at Cairo about 2 a.m., 17th, put off forth-nine wounded Illinoisans, and
proceeded up the Mississippi, ran into a fog, and lay by till daylight.
Just
above Cape Girardeau there occurred an incident of happy omen. A German woman, the wife of a dead soldier, who had come on
board at Savannah and was assisting the nurses in return for her passage,
suddenly became very ill, and was furnished a bed in one of the state rooms.
Mystery was in the countenances of the elderly ladies; the doctor
appeared excited; evidently some unusual event had transpired, when, upon
inquiring the cause of Dr. Aspel, he coolly informed me that the
"Empress" had a namesake in the person of a juvenile specimen of
female mortality just arrived. The
mystery was cleared up.
At Pittsburg, I met the Rev. Mr. Vandever, chaplain of the Eighth Iowa.
I had formed his acquaintance on the first expedition up the Tennessee,
and admired his traits of energetic character.
He was not laboring to get the wounded of his regiment on the boat, which
he accomplished after being in the saddle from morning until 4 p.m. without any
rest. He was on the battle field on
Sunday, and barely escaped the fate of most of his regiment, nearly all of whom
were made prisoners. He intends
resigning and returning to his congregation, as his regiment is annihilated.
Such men as he are a blessing to any community, but particularly to the
soldier.
A
military hospital is a place to study human nature.
Here is a soldier slightly wounded cursing those who wounded him,
desiring nothing more than another battle.
There are two more seriously wounded--one with a broken thigh, the other
with a broken shoulder; they are dividing an orange which Mrs. Couzins has just
handed to the one with well arms. One
is a Confederate the other a Federal soldier.
Again you meet a stern countenance bearing marks of pain, but who when
spoken to smiles; he says he wishes the war at an end.
Near him is a prisoner, a youth of sixteen years, weeping, not from pain,
but he is fast leaving his parents and five younger brothers.
Near him stands an elderly volunteer surgeon, who, with trembling lips
and moistened eye, is attempting to reassure the disconsolate youth.
Anon one of the Sisters of Mercy accosts the youth with kind and sisterly
accents, and his tears are tried and the sunbeam of hope is in his eye.
...
Let us turn our eyes from this dark picture, and see those angels of mercy
flitting about and ministering to the necessities of their fellow beings; see
the wealthy and delicate lady, who has hardly ministered to her own wants, now
assisting in dressing horrible wounds, see the Religious, with all sisterly and
untiring energy, giving drink to one, food to another, and kind, counseling
words to all. Who shall reward such
disinterestedness? "I will
repay, saith the Lord." ...
Oliver.
DAILY
MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, April 24, 1862, p. 4, c. 1
Heroic Women.
At the battle of
Pittsburg Landing there was a woman who accompanied her husband, and after the
battle began to rage on Sunday she was urged to leave the field.
She refused to do so, and, instead, busied herself all day in carrying
the wounded back to a place of safety as they fell around her.
While she was thus engaged, another young woman, who had also accompanied
her husband, was struck and instantly killed by a cannon ball, within a few feet
of her. The brave woman was, as may
be imagined, greatly fatigued, and even made ill by her exertions on the field.
Her name is Mrs. Werner, and she is now in this city, at the residence of Mrs.
Caldwell, 217 Vine street. Her
husband fell on the battlefield, and she is entirely alone and a stranger here.
More than this, while engaged in her humane work, she tore all her
underclothing into strips to tie up the wounds of the fallen soldiers, and
consequently she came here destitute of even the most indispensable articles of
clothing.
DAILY
MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, May 18, 1862, p. 3, c. 5
The
floating hospital Empress, Capt. Ryder, arrived at St. Louis Saturday evening
from Pittsburgh Landing with four hundred and forty-eight sick and wounded
soldiers, after having touched at Evansville and left there three hundred and
seventy-one--making a total from Pittsburg Landing of eight hundred and
nineteen.
The
boat was in charge of Brigade Surgeon T. "F. Azpell, assisted by Doctors
Buck, Ennis, Spayd and Mack; Steward, E. B.
Lindsay; Apothecary, _______ Leisler; with five Sisters of Mercy and three lay
sisters as female nurses, and twenty-eight male attendants.
DAILY
MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, May 29, 1862, p. 2, c. 2
[list of journalists who signed protest on expulsion from army in front of
Corinth]
Thomas W. Knox, New York Herald.
A. D. Richardson, New York Tribune.
C. C. Coffin, Boston Journal.
J. Whitelaw Reid, Cincinnati Gazette.
W. E. Webb, Missouri Republican.
G. W. Bramen, Missouri Democrat.
F. G. Chapman, New York Herald.
P. Tallman, New York Herald.
R. J. Hinton, Chicago Tribune.
F. B. Wylkie, New York Times.
T. A. Post, Missouri Democrat.
A. Ware, Philadelphia Press.
Joseph B. McCullogh, Cincinnati Commercial.
C. F. Gilbert, Cincinnati Gazette.
DAILY
MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, May 23, 1862, p. 2, c. 5 [Summary:
Protest of James E. Yeatman, President, Western Sanitary Commission,
about U.S. Sanitary commission--can't get supplies sent, they are too well paid]
DAILY
MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, May 24, 1862, p. 1, c. 9
A Faithful
Dog.
The widow of Lieut. Pfeff, of Illinois, was enabled to find her husband's
grave at Pittsburg Landing by seeing a dog which had accompanied the Lieutenant
to the war. The dog approached her
with the most intense manifestations of joy, and immediately indicated to her,
as well as he was able, his desire that she should follow him.
She did so, and he led the way to a distant part of the field, and
stopped before a single grave. She
caused it to be opened and there found the body of her dead husband.
It appears from the statement of some of the soldiers that at the time
Lieut. Pfeff fell the dog was by his side, and there remained, licking his
wounds, until he was taken from the field and buried.
He then took his station by the grave, and nothing could induce him to
abandon it but for a sufficient length of time each day to satisfy his hunger,
until, by some means, he was made aware of the presence of his mistress.
Thus had he watched for twelve days by the grave of his slain master.
DAILY
MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, June 3, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
For Wearing Men's Apparel.--Miss Amelia Brown was Sunday apprehended on the
street for being in habiliments properly those of a boy.
She was, on Monday morning, fined by the Recorder $5 and costs for this
offence against the laws of the city. The
fashion of her clothing was after that of a man-of-war-s-man, or gunboat marine.
The name of the "Essex" was conspicuous on her cap front.
Her fine was paid by "another man" in sailor clothes, and the
two departed in peace.
DAILY
MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, August 12, 1862, p. 1, c. 5
Western
Sanitary Commission.
The Western
Sanitary Commission of St. Louis is under the necessity of again appealing to
the patriotic citizens of the loyal States for the contribution of money and
hospital stores.
The
demands upon the Commission are as great as at any previous time, and the field
of its labors is daily enlarged. ... At the present time arrangements are in
progress to supply regiments in the field with vegetables and other articles of
food for sick and convalescent soldiers. At
Corinth and Columbus this will be done by co-operation with Dr. Wariner, Agent
of the United States Sanitary Commission, and elsewhere by the Western
Commission alone. ...
Especially we appeal to the LOYAL WOMEN, wherever they may be. They are the true "Home Guards" of the nation, the
ministering angels to sickness and suffering.
Without them Sanitary Commissions can do but a small part of their work,
and upon their efficient assistance we principally depend.
The
articles most needed are hospital shirts and drawers, socks, slippers, dressing
gowns, farina, corn starch and delicacies, and money, which is the
representative of all.
Boxes
should be sent by "Merchants Despatch," (prepaid if possible,) to
James E. Yeatman, Western Sanitary commission, St. Louis, Mo., with names on the
box of party sending, so as to assure prompt acknowledgement. ...
DAILY
MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, August 20, 1862, p. 4
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