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The Daily Dispatch: April 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], Federal inhumanity to their own wounded. (search)
Federal inhumanity to their own wounded. --An incident in connection with a Federal defeat is published in the New York Tribunes, which, if we were not acquainted, with the inhumanity, of Federal officers, we should deem almost incredible. When the Cosmopolitan arrived at Beaufort with a cargo of 240 wounded men, a ball was going on. Generals Gilmore and Saxon, who were present, immediately left the festive scene and went to the boat, and then heard for the first time of the defeat of the army; the only intimation of a reverse prior to this was a telegram from Hilton Head stating that some wounded men were on their way. Gen. Saxon returned to the ball room, informed the guests of the catastrophe, and ordered the lights to be put out. We will give the rest of the narrative in the words of the New York Tribune: A second time he had to give the command before it was obeyed. A surgeon present made a little speech, setting forth the superfluity of the man date, inasmuch as the