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were, as we were informed, thirteen all told; and 

 occasionally after the surrender, by vigorous rep- 

 resentations and requests, we would get one as- 

 signed to take some peculiarly bad cases to the hos- 

 pital. Ordinarily, however, we had to do with one 

 of the makeshifts enumerated above. On several 

 occasions I visited the big hospitals in the rear. 

 Their condition was frightful beyond description 

 from lack of supplies, lack of medicine, lack of doc- 

 tors, nurses, and attendants, and especially from 

 lack of transportation. The wounded and sick who 

 were sent back suffered so much that, whenever 

 possible, they returned to the front. Finally my 

 brigade commander, General Wood, ordered, with 

 my hearty acquiescence, that only in the direst need 

 should any men be sent to the rear no matter what 

 our hospital accommodations at the front might be. 

 The men themselves preferred to suffer almost any- 

 thing lying alone in their little shelter-tents, rather 

 than go back to the hospitals in the rear. I invite 

 attention to the accompanying letter of Captain 

 Llewellen in relation to the dreadful condition of 

 the wounded on some of the transports taking them 

 North. 



The greatest trouble we had was with the lack 

 of transportation. Under the order issued by di- 

 rection of General Miles through the Adjutant- 

 General on or about May 8th, a regiment serving 

 as infantry in the field was entitled to twenty-five 

 wagons. We often had one, often none, sometimes 



