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The Governor started one boat to Pittsburg Landing on 
April 7, 1862, and sent surgeons the next day.^^ Father E. 
B. Kilroy was sent to Shiloh in the middle of March, 1862, 
to report conditions prevailing among the troops. Morton ar- 
ranged for a special boat which left Evansville on April 10, 
1862, with thirty or forty volunteer surgeons and supplies for 
Pittsburg Landing.29 On April 25, 1862, W. R. Holloway, 
Governor Morton’s private secretary, was arranging to remove 
Indiana sick from New Madrid,^® v^hich was done.®^ Morton 
wanted all disabled Indiana men sent to Indiana to be cared 
for. He requested Dr. G. Perrin, assistant medical director at 
Louisville, to send Indiana sick and wounded arriving there 
to Indiana hospitals,^^ which was promised “as far as prac- 
ticable”.^^ The same request was made of J. S. Bobbs, medical 
director at New Albany, on April 13.^^ 
On April 14, Bobbs was instructed to board the boats “ar- 
riving and get Indiana wounded. Place them in hospital if 
possible at New Albany. . . . Make arrangements to have 
Indianians left ... off boats at Jefferson City or Madi- 
son.”^^ A boat arriving on April 14 left at Evansville all In- 
dianians on board except those living near Louisville. Those 
able to travel farther were sent on to their homes.^® Morton 
also cared for the sick of other states in Indiana hospitals. 
On May 12, 1862, 400 sick Ohio troops were sent to New Al- 
bany, 150 placed in the hospital there, and the rest, being 
convalescent, were furloughed home.^^ 
On April 18, 1862, J. S. Wilson, military agent stationed 
at Nashville, planned to send home on furlough from the hos- 
pitals 500 sick Indiana soldiers, but an order from General 
Buell, dated April 17, prohibited all furloughs. Wilson ap- 
pealed to Morton,^^ who conferred with General Halleck, but 
in vain.^® He then appealed to Secretary Stanton,^® and was 
^Uhid., Ill, 124. 
Ill, 125, 225. 
Ibid., Ill, 125, 128. For other negotiations see ibid., Ill, 132, 133. 
3" Ibid., Ill, 184. 
^^Ibid., Ill, 205. 
^-Ibid., Ill, 136. 
Ibid., Ill, 137. 
-^Ibid., Ill, 142. 
^Ubid., Ill, 144. 
3R/6irf., Ill, 145, 164. 
Ibid., Ill, 240. 
33 /bid., Ill, 161. 
39 O. P. Morton to Genei-al Halleck, April 17, 1862, ibid.. Ill, 164. 
49 Q. P. Morton to E. M. Stanton, April 17, 1862, ibid.. Ill, 164, 
