“IT IS NOT THE PLEASANTEST OCCUPATION TO BE WAITING UPPON THOS MEN THAT HAVE CAUSED OUR COUNTRY FOR TO BLEED. . .. WE HAVE 3,000 REBS ON THE ISLAND [AND] MY WARD IS FILLED UP.” Letter from one Union wardmaster to another expressing his dissatisfaction of having to care for Confederate soldiers who were wounded at Gettysburg
Davids Island, Long Island, New York: De Camp General Hospital, August, 1863. Envelope or Cover. This three-page letter was sent from a wardmaster at De Camp General Hospital on Long Island to a wardmaster at the U.S. General Hospital at Fort Schuyler, New York. It is enclosed in an envelope..... More