Camp Letterman Hospital                 

Gettysburgh Pa. Oct. 25^th 1863

 

Sir

            A considerable amount of hospital property not worth transportation to a Medical Purveyors has accumulated in this hospital. It consists of broken tin and delfware and beef stock. What steps shall I take in relation to its condemnation?

 

            There are a large number of fragments of sheets & bandages worthless for any purpose but paper rags. All the sheets issued to this hospital were worn and many of them worthless when received.

 

            There are also a considerable quantity of woolen rags, such as, old confederate clothing and pieces of blankets, which perhaps might be sold for shoddy, though not worth transportation any great distance.

 

            Shall I have the rags baled up and sent to Baltimore or shall I have them sold here, if possible, and the proceeds appropriated to the payment of our debts?

 

Respectfully

your obt. servt.

Henry Janes Surg U.S.V.

In charge of hospital

 

Jos. K Barnes     

Acting Surg. General         

   

P.S. We now have a Sanitary Commission car to use for the transportation of our patients. I think all our patients can be moved in it with safety by the second week in November provided always that the car does not meet with an accident as it did Friday last. It ran off the track and injured it somewhat. No patients were hurt.

 

[postscript crossed out subsequent to writing]

 

 

[endorsement]

 

Camp Letterman

Oct 26^th 1863

 

Henry Janes Surg U.S.V.

 

Inquires about worthless

Hospital property

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