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ton’s agents and the officers of Indiana regiments were con- 
stantly sending information concerning conditions in the field 
and suggestions for relief.^*^'^ But when the information was 
not forthcoming he did not hesitate to ask for it. On August 
12, 1862, he inquired of General Banks for the names of those 
killed or wounded belonging to the Twenty-seventh Indiana.^"^ 
On October 3, 1862, he inquired of General Morgan the con- 
dition of the Thirty-third and Forty-ninth regiments. He 
urged doctors in the hospitals and agents in the field to call 
upon state organizations for assistance. He anticipated win- 
ter calls for food and clothing. He sent special agents to the 
field to discover what was needed and to report those needs 
to him or distribute the goods that had been placed in the 
permanent depots of the military agents. He established a 
place in Jeffersonville, Ind., which gave to soldiers passing 
thru the city a warm meal at no cost to themselves.^®® 
Concerning the detailed work of Indiana military agents, 
R. R. Corson writing from Philadelphia said that they were 
to keep the state accurately and frequently apprised of the 
condition and location of her every soldier in the hospital in 
this city. 
The state is enabled to answer questions asked by friends, correct 
desertions fasely reported, and check off discharges from the true date 
as no longer recipients of further state bounty money. . . . Letters 
of inquiry are given immediate attention and are answered in detail in 
each case after inquiry has been made. 
They reported the needs of soldiers in hospitals, and the 
condition of each, the number in the hospitals, transfers to 
other hospitals, etc. Mementoes of the dead were preserved 
and sent to friends or relatives.^®^ W. T. Dennis wrote from 
Washington : 
It is not improper to remark that the duties of our agent at this 
point are not entirely restricted to the wants and care of those in the 
hospitals, but that all matters upon which information is desired by our 
citizens at home, or by those in the army at other points, very materially 
fall into this channel, and a very large number of letters from various 
parts of our state are to be attended to. . . 
Morton sent out other special surgeons, agents, and relief 
^“3 General Telegrams, III, 73, 77 : General Despatches, IX, 240. 
10^ Department Despatches, XV, 80. 
General Despatches, IX, 19. 
Indianapolis Daily Sentinel, January 5, 1864. 
'^^'Indianapolis Daily Journal, November 13, 1862. 
^o^Ibid., June 5, 1862. 
