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wounded there. They went to Cincinnati®^ on September 8, 
and had to wait there for four days while arrangements were 
being made for passing the wagon train thru the lines under 
a flag of truce.®^ Dr. C. McDermott, United States medical 
director, was there at the same time and was probably in- 
strumental in helping the Indianians in their plans for relief. 
Thirty ambulances, six sisters of charity together with two 
other female nurses and six men, made up the train. They 
carried a large supply of hospital stores and provisions. They 
arrived in Lexington on September 13, found thirty-seven 
patients there, and pushed on to Richmond. 
The arrival of the train was the cause of much rejoicing 
among the wounded soldiers that were crowded into the three 
hospitals. The needed sanitary provisions were distributed 
among the men, but not all of them were in the hospitals 
there; the rest were scattered over the surrounding country 
in farmhouses as much as fifteen miles from Richmond. They 
reported the men to be in as good condition as the means at 
hand would allow. Wounds had been well cared for, and the 
men were comparatively clean and comfortable. The return 
trip was begun on September 17, the route being by way 
of Lexington and Maysville. They brought some 200 away 
with them.®° The expedition cost $828.76, and was paid for 
out of state funds.®® 
Of the eight regiments of Indiana volunteers belonging to 
the Army of the South-West, near Helena, Ark., in Septem- 
ber, 1862, there were about 300 men who were entirely unfit 
for duty. Their surgeons recommended that they be granted 
a furlough of thirty days with permission to return home. 
Governor Morton called the attention of Surgeon-General Wil- 
liam A. Hammond to the situation®' but was informed that 
that office had no power to grant such furloughs.®® He next 
tried to get supplies to them, asking permission of General 
S. R. Curtis to send them from Indianapolis,®® which was read- 
ily granted.®® It was understood that the goods would go 
^^Indianapolis Daily Jouriaal, September 8, 1862. 
^* *lhid., September 10, 1862; Terrell, Report, I, 322. 
*5 Indianapolis Daily Journal, September 23, 1862. 
Documentary Jxmrnal, 1863, 43 ; Indianapolis Daily Sentinel, February 2, 1863. 
O. P. Morton to Surgeon-General Hammond, September 22, 1864, Department 
Despatches, XV, 278. 
O. P. Morton to General Curtis, October 13, 1862, ibid., XV, 279, 
Ibid., XV, 304. 
"0 S. R. Curtis to O. P. Morton, October 13, 1862, ibid., XV, 309. 
