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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[July, 
carrying them to the " from." There are about 100 
teamsters, porters, etc., engaged in handling the stores, 
manning the boats, etc., and 150 or moie of the hired, 
and volunteer "Relief Corps" engaged in distributing di- 
rectly to the wounded and sick, and in dressing wounds, 
and caring for the men otherwise. These articles are all 
needed ; the use of most of them will be obvious to every 
one ; others are required for tents and other work. 
This list contains an assortment forwarded from the 
general storehouses, about in the proportion they are ex- 
pected to be needed. Daily orders go off for any articles 
of which the stock is being drawn down. 
Condensed Milk.... CW3 cans. 
Soft Crackers 2fil3 lbs. 
Farina ISr.fi lbs. 
Sugar.... 4556 lbs. 
Tomatoes 16.207 cans. 
Corn Starch 794 lbs. 
Chocolate, prepared. .3310 lbs. 
Ground Coffee 804 lbs. 
Coffee Extract 192 lbs. 
Cocoa 60 lbs. 
Oat Meal .1000 lbs. 
Corn Meal 400 lbs. 
Gelatine 24 lbs. 
Maccaroni 100 lbs. 
Arrow Root. SO lbs. 
Rice 200 lbs. 
Butter ISO lbs. 
Flour .... 11 bbls. 
Peaches (2 lb. cans). .447 cans. 
Pears (2 lb. cans) 160 cans. 
Eggs, fresh ....160 doz. 
Beans, ereen 161 cans. 
RoastChicken(2 lb.c.)216 cans. 
Roast Turkcv do. 500 cans. 
RoastBeef (2 Ib.cans )2402 cans. 
Beef Soup, condens'd.336 cans. 
Other canned meats.2200 cans. 
Hams .2 bbls, 
Jamaica Rum 516 bottles, 
Brandy 840 bottles, 
Sherry Wine .600 bottles. 
"Whiskey 1475 bottles, 
Cherrv Brfindy 12 bottles. 
Foreign Wine...... 10 gallons. 
Domestic Wine 87 gallons, 
Cider 57 Dottl es. 
Alcohol 216 bottles. 
Spirits 1 package. 
Molasses 2 bbls. 
Extract Ginger.. .1123 bottles. 
Bay Hum 360 do. 
Lemons 166 boxes. 
Lemon Svrup 363 bottles. 
Porter (in k barrels).. .81 bbls, 
Spices C5 1bs. 
Tamarinds 135 gallons, 
Tea 785 lbs. 
Mutton Tallow 30 lbs. 
Bedsteads 18 
Bed Ticks 907 
Bales of Straw 11 
Pillows 758 
Pillow Cases 1346 
Pillow Ticks 312 
Mattresses 11: 
Chambers 264 
Candlesticks.. 24S 
Cushions (large boxes)... 
Kins Cushions 4' 
Sheets .. 510 
Blankets (woolen) 4S0 
Blankets (Rubber) 46 
Quilts 393 
Head Rests 50 
Stretchers 139 
Lanterns 100 
Medicine Cups - 200| 
Scissors 4S\ 
Hair Combs 776 
Mosketo Nets (pieces).... 419 
Oil Silk (nieces) 44 
Oakum (tor wounds) . .2 bales 
Spit Cups 328 
Handkerchiefs 1562 
Towels 3609 
Tin Cups 2320 
Tin Plates 712 
Tin Basins 250 
Water Tanks (large) 8 
Tin Spoons 541 
Tin Buckets 115 
Cooking Stoves 
Camp Kettles.. 
Knives and Forks i-J± 
Cheap Carvers 12 
Frying Pans fl 
Coffee Pots (large) 16 
Nutmeg graters 7 
Tin ware (assorted). .12 boxes. 
1 hhd. 
2 bbls. 
Saleratus, lbs 50 
Baskets 30 
Shirts (woolen) 4469 
Shirts (cotton ) 1304 
Shirts (hospital) 1153 
Drawers (woolen) 571 
Drawers (Canton F.) 847 
Socks (cotton) 1945 
Socks (woolen) 1645 
Wrappers S93 
Slippers (pairs) 733 
Shoes (boxes).. 5 
Boots (box) 1 
Pants (large box) 1 
Pickles (gallons) 269 
Cabbage, curried (barrels) 50 
Sauerkraut (barrels) 218 
Tobacco, smoking (lbs.).. 525 
Cheese (lbs.) 5200 
Salt (sacks) 2 
Wooden Pails.... 60 
Medicine boxes 4 
Bromine 2 lbs. 
Chloroform 60 lbs. 
Quinine 1 box 
Campflor et Opii Pills 1000 
Chloride of Lime 5 bbls. 
Envelopes 15,500 
Letter Paper — 15 reams 
Pencils (lead) . . .1116 
Penholders 157 dozen 
Pens 14 gross 
Ink (bottles) 108 
Stationary (assorted) .3 boxes 
Palm Fans 420 
Hay 29 bales 
Straw «. 12 bales 
Oats 400 bushel 
Safe (Are proof) 1 
Camp stools. 40 
Lumber (assorted)., .large lot 
Nails 2 kegs 
Spikes 10 lbs. 
Shovels 24 
Axes 6 
Hatchets 12 
Saws 2 
Hammers 12 
Brooms 112 
Bandages 24 barrels 
Old Linen 6 barrels 
Lint (home-made)... 2 barrels 
Patent Liut 50 lbs. 
Silk Lisature 2 lbs. 
Cologne 196 bottles 
Camphor 
Reading matter 11 boxes. 
Newspapers. ...large bundles. 
Arm Slings 714 
Crutches (pairs) 1400 
Canes 67 
Soap 224 
Tents 14 
Candles 727 lbs. 
Pads 140 
Sponges 2 bales. 
Sponges 2 boxes 
Snon ges 25 lbs. 
Matches (Gross) 144 
Brooms Ill 
Hospital Lamps 100 
Camp Chests (large, with 
full assortment of every 
thing in, for held use oh 
the instant) 7 
Extra Harness, saddles, 
bridles, flags, razors, 
-n: > >!Z brushes, mark- 
KiiiL, ,-v.- etc.. etc 
Letter from Mr. Judd .— The noble Work 
that is being Done for our Sick and 
Wounded Soldiers. 
White House, Va., June 9th, 1864. 
[The readers will please give the entire credit of the 
June anil July numbers of the Agriculturist to my worthy 
Editorial Associates, Prof. Thurber, Col. Weld, Mr. Fitch 
and their assistants and correspondents. Five weeks 
ago to day, I left home to personally aid for a few days 
in the care of the wounded. The days have lengthened 
to weeks, and I can not yet consent to leave this import- 
ant and interesting field of labor. I even grudge the 
brief time devoled to this iiasty letter, for every moment 
I can be in the camp, gives opportunity to contribute 
something to the comfort of a suffering fellow. 1 may 
perhaps run home for a day or two, to attend to some 
important business, but with this exception, I feel it a 
duty, as well as tiie highest pleasure, to remain near the 
battle fields, so long as hundreds of men are almost daily 
struck down, and while so much can he done to alleviate 
their sufferings. It is the more my duty, as my health 
continues very good, notwithstanding the severity of the 
night and day labor, the absence of regular wholesome 
meals, of beds, or of any of the comforts of home, or 
civilization even. I have so far felt none of the evil in- 
fluences of these malarious regions which seriously 
affect so many others. I doubt not our readers will 
readily excuse me for present inattention to correspond- 
ence, to business, and to the reading columns.] 
My notes last month to my Associates, which I see they 
took the liberty to print, left me at Fredericksburg. Since 
then we have been to Belle Plain again, to Aquia Creek, 
(May 22,) down the Potomac and up the Rappahannock 
to Port Royal (May 25,) and to Fredericksburg again 
(May 26) to bring away the last of the wounded ; back to 
PortRoyal, then down theRappahannock andChesapeake, 
up the York River and to this point (White House) on 
lithe Pamunkey river, where we arrived Monday, May 30. 
The work at these several points has been much the 
same, viz., the reception and care of wounded and sick 
Bent to the rear from the battle field. At each place, and 
especially at Fredericksburg and here, we have heard 
the almost constant roar of cannons, sometimes in too 
rapid succession to admit of counting the distinct dis- 
charges of the heavier guns even, and we have almost 
learned to plan our work ahead for a given number of 
wounded, by the character and direction of the firing. 
Of the character of our work, any one can judge, by 
thinking what would be done in a household where one 
of its members had been maimed by accident. How 
many attentions would be bestowed, how many comforts 
would be planned, how would the sympathies of the 
whole neighborhood be called forth, for miles around. 
Here we have thousands of maimed men, some of them 
pierced and torn in every conceivable manner — not one 
in a house, but often a score or more on the ground un- 
der a single large tent. When soldiers are disabled, they 
are sent to the rear where the surgeon performs such 
hasty dressing and other operations as maybe most need- 
ed. As soon as circumstances allow, they are then sent 
to the " base of supplies " in ambulances (covered spring 
wagons), or often in springless army wagons. The guer- 
rillas that hover around the rear, make it necessary to 
send a strong military guard along with each train of 
wounded, and also preclude the attendance of civilians to 
feed and care for the wounded while on the way. Such 
help only is given, as can be afforded by the drivers, and 
the soldiers detailed to attend them. The comparatively* 
few Sanitary Commission wagons and " relief men," al- 
lowed at the front, do what they can for the men before 
they leave the field hospitals. It is these famished, 
weary, hungry, often tired and fainting men, that we are 
trying to receive and provide for to the utmost of our 
ability. Ajid God be thanked for the noble enterprise of 
the U. S. Sanitary Commission, and for the patriotic 
hearts and hands that have supplied its treasury with the 
means for carrying abundant supplies to the points where 
needed. I have sent you a partial list of the "stores" 
brought to this point, which is but one of the fields of la- 
bor. I can not begin to describe the work done. My 
note books, and the broader pages of memory, would 
furnish details enough to fill a hundred columns in the 
Agriculturist. A few items must suffice. 
At Belle Plain a large force of men, in alternate squads, 
were occupied night and day, from May 10 to May 25, in 
feeding the men with coffee, milk punch to the fainting, 
soft bread and crackers, median. ca, and many delicacies — 
in giving clothing, crutches, arm slings, blankets, etc. —in 
dressing wounds, in cheering the desponding, in convers- 
ing with the dying, in writing letters for those unable to 
write for themselves, in receiving and forwarding letters, 
parcels, etc.— in short, in every way in which they could 
"nmfort the living— and in burying those who died when 
luua i' '»n their way home. The work done at that 
point alone, a c.frttsand times repaid all the great and 
small Sanitary Fairs eva <e?d.andall the home efforts 
ever put forth. 
At the same time, 32 four-horse wagons were engaged 
in hauling supplies to the army, and especially to Fred- 
ericksburg, where the same kind of work was going on, 
but on a still larger scale, if possible. Central distribut- 
ing stores were established, and the city was districted 
off, and squads of " relief men " assigned to each district. 
(The agents of the Commission accompanying the army, 
are called the " Relief Corps," and those at the rear with 
the wounded, are termed the "Auxiliary Relief Corps." 
These latter consist partly of regularly employed men, 
who are previously trained to the work of dressing 
wounds, preparing food for the sick, etc., but more large- 
ly of volunteers, who give their time and best energies 
freely, but who work entirely subject to the regular 
" Auxiliary Relief Corps.") 
These companies, with temporary captains to direct, 
went from house to house in their several beats, and 
commenced their good work. Though 'numbering over 
150, there was at one time an average of nearly fifty for 
each one to look after. Those skilled in that branch, 
assisted in dressing wounds ; others ca r ried around and 
dispensed prepared foods, and drinks, etc., from the Sani- 
tary stores. The memory of the hours and days occu- 
pied in this will never dim. That clean, nice flannel 
shirt, made perhaps by your hands, gentle reader, or at 
least bought with your money or work, and put in place 
of a blood or dirt soiled one, by the hand that writes this, 
perhaps comforted a son, or brother, or relative of the 
maker herself. 1 see a pair of bare feet of a noble man 
stretched upon the floor, unable to raise himself up ; I 
hasten to put upon them a pair of home-knit socks. Who 
knit them ? Perhaps the one that reads this. Somebody 
knit them for somebody's son— and that is enough. Nev- 
er shall I forget one pair given. A mark on them indi- 
cated the knitter's name. The soldier took them in his 
hands, looked them over and over again— then kissed 
them, hugged them to his bosom, and turning upon his 
side, wept. I could not stay there, to ask what were his 
thoughts. These hands of mine are hallowed by the 
hundreds of pairs of socks, the shirts, the drawers, the 
arm slings, the crutches, the pillows, the ring cushions, 
the slippers, etc., etc., that they have been permitted to 
give to such men during five weeks past. And every 
hand that has helped to make these things, or helped by 
work, or dimes, or dollars, to buy them, is a nobler 
hand therefor. I wish I could give a thousandth part of 
the items. I have said nothing of the tens of thousands 
of cups of good coffee, prepared with pure milk brought 
condensed in cans, and sweetened with good sugar, of 
other thousands of cups of tea, of milk punch when 
stimulants were most needed, of farina, of beef or chicken 
broth, which modern invention enables us to carry fresh 
to the field. Imagine at least a hundred persons con- 
stantly preparing and bearing these things to our sick 
and wounded brave men, far from home and home com- 
forts and care, and again with me lhank God that it was 
put into the hearts of the people, to work in fairs and at 
home for our soldiers, and that you and I have been 
privileged to bear some part in this noblest enterprize of 
this or any other age. Let us keep on doing. We are in 
the midst of the mightiest struggle the world has ever 
seen. For 36 days an almost incessant battle has gone 
on, and the end is not yet. But I must hasten. 
At Port. Royal, Va., the same work was repeated for 
three days and nights. The Sanitary Commission steam- 
er, loaded down with stores and with " relief men." were 
on hand two hours before the first wounded man arrived, 
and we fed and cared for all who came in, until they 
were sent for fromWashington, whither they were carried 
direct by water, in comfortable, commodious steamers. 
At this point (White House) we arrived two days in 
advance of the wounded. You should see our eight dis- 
tributing and feeding tents on shore, and the busy relief 
agents, cooking, hastening from tent to lent with pailfuls 
of the best nutriment, bundles of clothing, elc. Shall I 
speak of a single day's work of my own, in illustration ? 
The men had for 36 days been away from their usual ac- 
cess to sutlers, or other sources of supply. I found a 
great eagerness for tobacco among those accustomed to 
use this narcotic ; the longing seemed to be intensified 
by their condition. Yesterday I went around with a 
basket on each arm, and a haversack on my neck. A 
rough estimate of the day's work, from the morning and 
evening stock on hand, showed that I had given out 
writing paper and envelopes to about 700 men. Pencils 
to 90. A large lot of newspapers sent direct to me by Mr. 
Felt, of Salem, Mass. Crutches to 136 wounded below 
the knee, who were thus enabled to get up and move 
about. Arm slings to 115 wounded in the arm. (Perhaps 
you made one nf these, reader). A piece of chewing to- 
bacco each, to about 370. Smoking tobacco and match- 
es to about 450, and pipes to "3 who had lost theirs. (A 
wounded man seldom brings anything from the field, ex- 
cept what is in his pockets.) This is the only day 1 have 
attempted to keep an account of the work done. With 
my outfit of baskets, etc., I looked like, and was not in- 
appropriately dubbed a " Yankee Peddler." I doubt M 
any other Yankee Peddler ever did a better business in 
one day, or one that paid a thousandth part as well. The 
pleasant running conversation kept up all day was cheer- 
ing, to myself at least, and the " God bless you's " and 
cheerful "good mornings" or "good evening's" responded 
from every tent as I left it, were good pay. Every where 
I met others of our "relief agents" bearing other things, 
or bending over the fallen men, dressing their wounds, 
and Samaritan like "pouring in oil and wine." The 
sleep of that night was sweetened by bearing out 38 nice 
warm new blankets to as many blanketless men whom I 
found, as I came from a distant part of the camping 
ground at a late hour in the evening. These men had 
been brought in after dark, and had got separated from 
the rest of their train. I am sure some of their lives 
were thus saved.— I speak thus particularly of my own 
work because I can speak of that best. Almost 200 oth- 
ers are earnestly and feelingly laboring to the it I most of 
their strength in the different departments. Such is the 
work at White House Landing to-day. May I not neg- 
lect the Agriculturist another month, if need be? 
ORANGE JUDO. 
