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-4SAVANNAH, JiQyilAY. FEB, .l*”-
yypTAT, OP tJMON SOLDIERS.
»A thoroughly excellent plan -secure
';lhe perfect ftßftincation of the remains
*£ ttibse OI om...£&!dtei3.. who are
. Juried in Southern cemeteries, and other
. Southern lands, and ' are, in. most
os&ses, interred hastily, in accordance
rtgritk -the urgent necessities of was, has
\--itetn. lately recommended by the WarDe
•jssartment, and has been adopted with the
."iaost.satisfactory results in the Depart
•asent of Savannahs By it, friends of the
deceased heroes, of whom, so many,
uila* 2 lie under the sod of the Southern
.States, may, in every instance,-when
-i£Jpg device has been adopted, be unmis
vtakably recognized, and ail unhappy
vasistakes of identity, (of which many
&ave occurred,) be hereafter avoided.
/The plan is neither more nor less than to
tory -with the soldier a memorandum.of
aaLrsame,.age, corps, division,, -brigade,
<- :~egimentami company—together with a
?#Eef statement of the nature of the
kTiacase or wounds which were Jhe cahse
<n£ death—how long he. *fras in hospital
whether he suffered severely—to whom
fike entrusted his last requests—-with whom
< Ms effects were left, or to what place and
no whose care they were forwarded, with
\ also any other remarks thq officer or
\ricnd making the memorandum may
.fhxve leisure or disposition to add.
\This statement is written in
.knk, rolled up tightly, and placed
?in a bottle which has been care-
SSully cleaned and thoroughly ahied—the
iiattla is closely corked and the cork
cohered with melted sealing-wax so as
completely exclude all moisture for any
length of time. This bottle is buried, not
r ia. the coffin, as many suppose, but above
ahe»c«ffiri, about eighteen inches deep,
tcJt the foot of the grave- Asa uniform
' is proposed to be followed, wherever
*£kis device is adopted, it will only bene
- v >«:«*ary to dig down to, and open the
itacfttic, when if a ir J ' 1 , ' OC! been made
1 ' i'hcTerualns ate not the ones sought,-
* fczeavation need be continued no
but the bottle having been re
galed, is replaced in its former position,
..jund the grave carefully dlled up again.
Sin. most cases, if the bottles are care
dried, it will be only necessary to
VrxSr&ct the cork and the little roll',of pa
will drop into the hand ; should it be
iT&g&Lisitc to destroy the bottle, and it
tikes Iys found desirable to replace the
another bottle and a-lit 7
vsjs wax will make all right as before.
’JTbis plan, so simple and yet so effect
eve, is'now being universally adopted in
tte Department of the South, and doubt
elsewhere, thus preventing those un J
'i&acsua&te mistakes of identity, many of
*s&fch&aye heretofore been committed,
wfearein a family having proceeded oh
information, have gone to
,-grHt£ expense in removing a body many
miles only to find, on. opening
coffin of the camp, to exchange
■•jStfar one more elegant, that they have
• the remains of their of an
sES&er stranger. ...
‘ There is as yet no Army Regulation
making It the duty of any special officer
tja «tteiid tp these details, but, in the ab
«Ki»e ofa speeiaily interested friend, the
mgsmectal chaplain or the mans own
«£s.ptfcsii does it- .
la this city'Chaplain Joseph Mom?,
<¥ the iTStU.ftegt. O- V, V., on detail at
Use Hth Army Corps Hospital, has ua-
charitable work: It ca-
etaiU upon him, ia.Adiitnteto this arau- ■
[els duties, much hd-lititionaU-heavy la- j
[hot but in the cause of Christian <fhar- ;
lityiffie undertakes it wiiliqglj.. He finds
that much of hi3 time is taken up in j
■searching the eity for bottles and cork, ,
as there is no provision made by the -
Government for, a supply. Any chari
tably disposed person who 'are so dis
posed, may seriously lighten the labors
of an overworked philanthropic old
man by the simple expedient of sending
to the l4th Army Corps, on Barnard
Street Hospital, a supply of these, ar
ticles. The bottles should be the ordi
nary black glass, porter or wine bottles,
jt each with a tightly l fitting* cork, and the
sealing wa£. should be. fife very best
quality of < red, which is better than
black, yellow or green., This act, sim
ple and iuex pensive as it is, will be a
charity as true as many far more ostent
atious displays of philanthropy. i; '
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-The Hospital ships Gen. Barnes and
Northern Light.— We know, of no sttb
jeet'Of greater interest to the people north
especially, than that treating of the ar- ,
ran'gemeuts made by the Medical Depart
ment of the Government for the care of
the sick and wounded soldiers, Who have
sacrificed health and limb in defence of
the Republic. Scarcely a family exists
In the north, which has not a member
doing duty in one of the armies of the
country, and that member's Welfare is
always an object of anxiety and solici
tude to many. He is away from home
among strangers, where its kind protec
ting influences cannot be felt. If taken
sick, he has no mother's 1 and to per
form the thousand and one gentle offices
of the sick chamber. Ilis care is assum
ed by the Government, which supplies
medical attendance, and nurses, and the
question ever present to the minds of
those far away from us is la what manner
i3 the sick or wounded soldier treated.
Has he ail the comforts that a govern
ment can afford—good attention, and
careful nursing. j
Anything bearing on these questions is
of interest not only to the home folks but
to every soldier in the field. This sub
ject suggested itself to us as we were in
specting two magnificent specimens of
Hospital Ships that have beeu laying at
our dock Within two or three days past,
but are now bdfind for the North with a
load of sick and wounded- We now
propose to give a brief, description of
these ships. The first one named after the
Sug. Gen, Barnes,]is anew ship, of about
, sixteen hundred ton?, well constructed,
of handsome model, and fitted with a
powerful engine. In every way she is a
first.class sea-going steamer, of great
speed. She was taken by the Surgeon
General while yet on the stocks, and
her construction was on the most ap
. proved plans to? a hospital ship. Her
upper saloon is thrown iato one capa
cious room, which 13 high, light and well
ventilated and admirably adapted in
every way for a hospital ward. \lt is'
fitted up with three tiers of bunks, which
and furnished with comfortable mat
resses and an abundance of clothing— !
! There are two other wards on the next j
j deck below 7 fitted up in the same style, j
and well ventilated and lighted. On the
lower deck are the rooms l for the nurses
and attendants, comfortably arranged
and fitted up. The Dispensary and
Mess-rooms are large aud commodious,
• and handsomely fitted up and furnished.
The Surgeon's rooms are on the upper
deck and models of comfort and ele- l
gance. Five -hundred patients- can - lie j;
easily accommodated on the T-essei, with*!
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every comfort and convenience that they
can desire. i £ i?
The other N- >rthcrn Light, is
an old California passenger steamer,
thoroughly overhauled internally and
refitted for hospital purposes. Her ar
rangements are similar to those of the
Gen. Barnes, and modest of their kind.
The Northern Light will readily accom
modate between six and seven hundred
patients; and transport them from this
point to New York w r itli the greatest
comfort and ease.
Such are the means adopted by the
Government to care for. its sick , and
wounded soldiers. The world has not
yet seen a system so;perfect and so lib
eral as that adopted by our Government,
and now working so harmoniously and
smoothly. It is an honor to the age,
and a source of great credit to the able
Surgeon General and his skilful corps of
assistants. To Dr. Clymer, the Medical
Director of the Department, and his Ex
ecutive Officer, Dr. Ramsay, is due a
great deal» of the praise awarded for
the celerity and comfort with which
the parents have been transferred from
the Hospitals in this oity, to the steam
ers; aud thence north. They have been
indefatigable in their labors to accom
plish this desired end, and have succeed
ed to the admiration of all.
In a future article we shall have some
thing to ssy' on the Hospitals both Gen
eral and Corps, in this city.
Freedom follows the Flag. —And
the w’ide diffusion of intelligence fol
lows the advent of freedom. One of the
most remarkable and pleasing features
of the re-civilization of the land of the
Sunny South, and one of the strongest
proofs that the encomiums upon the go
ahead-l-tlveness of the Universal Yankee
Nation, is the suddenness with which
joyal newspapers spring up under the
shadow of the loyal flag. Scarcely has
the boom of the batteries ceased, and
hardly has the smoke of the guns floated
from the sight, before on the shot-torn
buildings we see huge hand-bills announc
ing the immediate issue of a newspaper
“devoted to Freedom, Patriotism and
the spread of IntelligeDce among the
massesj “Edited by some enterprising
Yankee. : C
Our boys take possession of the de
serted (mating offices of the Rebs, set
things fight and go ahead. If the John
nies hate broken the presses and “pied”
the typfc, the Yanks patch up the former
aud pick up the latter, and drive alon£.
This seldom happen?, however,* for a
true Printer is as loth to smash his print
ing-office as a sailor is to scuttle hi3
ship.
These remarks are elicited by the Tact
that a kyat newspaper is already pub
lished ip Charleston, South Carolina !
“The wbiid does move.”
loyal paper is simply the old
“Chatiesjlon Courier,” redivious. It is to
be Efiiteft by Mess I*3. George Whitte
morc, ofsthe “New York Daily Times,”
and W. Johnson, late of the
“New Scfih.” That they will make an
excellent iournal those who know their
literavy , ffid managenial abilities can
scarcely ftoubt, and tfiat it will be un
compromisingly I'oyal is a matter of
course.' [We heartCy wish them all suc
cess. ‘
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POnfIONEMENT OF THEATRICAL PER
FORMANCE. —The performance at Che Sa
vannah Theatre, announced for to-night,
is postponed until do-morrow evening,
Tuesday 28th. We call t’Je attention of
to the bill advertised
in anott ?r column, aud assume them that
the Association will positively give a
performance. Let there be a good house
V) greet/them.
| . Wilmington.—We have nothing later
| concerning the reported capture of Wil
mington. The report of its fall prevailed
at Hilton Head yesterday, and flfo tig.
tails were immediately expected. -
The Sherman Family.-— When a man
becomes famous there is a disposition on
the part of the human to
Took after his ancestors.* gWI fi
our exchanges, a good deßr of the
stock from which General Sherman
sprung, and that the German papers have
claimed him as a native of Amsterdam
(wfi believe,) Illustrates the inaccuracy of
the statements printed. We suppose it
to be of little importance to * General
Sherman, or to any one else,. who hi*
ancestors were, but if it is worth while
to say anything about them it is proper
to be accurate, and it is only fair that the
errors already afloat should be corrected.
The following statement is authentic—
The local records of Connecticut, which
a?e thp best in the world, furnish ample
and accurate material. A book of some
local note, Cotbren’s “History of Ancient
Woodbury,” gives the ; complete genea
logy of. the Sherman family, from the
arrival, in 1685, of Samuel Sherman, the
common ancestor, in Stratford, Connecti
cut. He was a man of some note in his
time—a Puritan of the Cromwell school,
aud one of the original proprietors of
Woodbury, Connecticut, where the
family settled. His descendant, Daniel
Sherman, was contemporaneous with
Roger Sherman, but the relation between
them was several degrees removed.
Daniel Sherman was evidently a man of
considerable ability and great influence.
He was a member of the Committee of
Safety, in Connecticut, during the entire
revolution, aud served for sixty-five con
secutive sessions, or thirty-two and
a half years, as the representa
tive bf hi? native town, in Die General
Assembly of Connecticut; A good many
anecdotes are told of him, which prove
him to have been full ot humor, as well
as fuil of sense. He died shoitly after
the adoption of the Consliftrtlon. His
son, Taylor Sherman, was General Shcr
man's grandfather. Taylor was a lawyer
in Norwalk, Connecticut, and became a
ju lge. He was one of the commission
ers sent by the State of Connecticut to
designate the “fire lauds” in Ohio, now
comprising the counties of Huron and
Erie* These lands were ceded by Con
necticut to the sufferers by the fire of
the British and tories of the war of the
Revolution, and were afterwards subdi
vided among the “sufferers.” This duty
with the ownership of some ot those
lands, directed the attention of
the oldest son of Taylor Bherman—
Charles R. Sherman—to Ohio.
In 1810, when just of he emigrat
ed to Ohio, starting for Cincinnati, but
was detained by the high waicrs of the
Hockfiocking, at the town of Lancaster,
then a mere hamlet. He,settled at Lan
caster as a lawyer, soon attained em
inence, and became judge of the Su
preme Court of Ohio in 1823. He died
irip!B29. while on the beuch, at Lebanonj#
Ohio. By the concurring testimony of
all the old lawyers of Ohio, he had
rare abilities as an advocate; aud was a
genial, liberal, and, very populaiyitizeh-
He left sii sons, cf whom five #re now
living. -General Sherman was born in
1820" Charles TANARUS; - Sheridan, who) has
been published as bis uncle, i3 the el
dest brother. Senates Sherman is three
years his junior.— Cincinnati Comn>crciai.
The Printer says “the first printers
were Titans,” We never knew that
before, but hfve seen * many tight uns
within our experience. Who hasn't ?
JIaAIXJTTABTEES U. S. FORCES,
* Savannah, February 2T, 1865!
Gzhkial ORnnuO • e ,/
No. 10. ) t
The troops at T/ns post will be
mustered for payment to-morrow, the 28th.
Regiments and Detached Companies by
their respective commanders, and hospitals con
taining the sick and convalescents, cot belong
ing to regiments or companies at the Post, by
the Surgeon in charge. , .
Bv command of Brevet Major Gen Grovto.
feb'27 Edward G, Dikr, A. A. G.
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PAPER.
New York Papers, of old date, for sale at the
Savannah Herald Building. feb!3
