Henry Janes to Joseph R. Smith Jr., 28 August 1863
Letterman Hospital                                        
Gettysburgh Pa. August 28th 1863
 
Sir
            I have the honor to report, that I have made personal examination of the Seminary Hospital and find that at present there is no ground for the report "that there is much sickness" there "owing to the proximity of bodies imperfectly buried".
 
            There were a considerable number of confederate soldiers buried during the battle in one hole immediately to the rear of the building. These bodies have been exhumed and removed to the grave yard.
 
            There are several graves scattered in the grove back of the building but at distances too great to affect the patients. The bodies in these graves are well buried.
 
            At present there are at the Seminary Hospital ten sick men who are not wounded. of these, 1 has Typhoid fever, 3 Remittent fever, 2 Intermittent fever, 2 Catarrhal fever, 1 Dysentery & 1 [?]. Three of the wounded have Erysipelas.
 
            Several of the sick were sent to the Seminary when other hospitals were broken up. / Dr. Riley the present Surgeon in Charge conducts his hospital admirably and has greatly improved the police since he took the management.
                                                                                   
Respectfully
your obt. servt.
Henry Janes Surg U.S.V.
In charge of hospitals about
Gettysburgh.
 
Surg. Jos. R. Smith  
Act. Surg. Gen.   
 
[endorsement]
 
Letterman Hospital
Gettysburg Pa
Aug 28th 1863
 
Surg H Janes U.S.V.
 
Relating to imperfectly buried
bodies &c.
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(13417)DL1879.008201Letters1863-08-28

Tags: Burials, Hospitals, Illnesses

People - Records: 2

  • (4771) [writer] ~ Janes, Henry
  • (5489) [recipient] ~ Smith, Joseph Rowe Jr.

Places - Records: 1

  • (393) [origination] ~ Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania

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Henry Janes to Joseph R. Smith Jr., 28 August 1863, DL1879.008, Nau Collection