The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 4, Volume 3. Page: 59
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CONFEDERATE AUTHORITIES. 59
The Department cannot form a plan of administration until the
legislation of Congress on this important subject be known, and the
object of this communication is simply to place before you the meager
state of legislation upon the subject which will render any plan inade-
quate to meet the exigencies of the country.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
J. A. CAMPBELL,
Assistant Secretary of War.
SURGEON-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Richmond, Va., January 29, 1864.
Lieut. Gen. L. POLK,
Commanding, &c., Meridian, Miss.:
GENERAL: I beg leave to represent to you the necessity of perfect-
ing, before the organization of the spring campaign, some arrangement
by which the sick and wounded sent to the rear of large armies, pre-
ceding, during, or after engagements, may be more comfortably pro-
vided for. Reason and experience conclusively show that this cannot
be accomplished by a medical director independent of the prompt
and energetic action of a commissary and quartermaster. In order
to insure concert of action upon the part of these three officers the
plan laid down in papers marked A and B was referred for the con-
sideration of the Commissary and Quartermaster Generals. No con-
clusion has yet been arrived at by them as far as is known to this
office, and the necessity for some action being promptly taken sug-
gests the propriety of the matter being directly referred to the com-
manders of the independent commands. In paper marked C will
be found the plan previously adopted by General Lee for the Army
of Northern Virginia, so far as the Commissary Department is con-
cerned. This, however, would hardly be sufficient for the require-
ments of your command, as it is not made applicable to temporary or
wayside hospitals, for the establishment of which as great a necessity
does not exist in the former as in the latter, but for which the plan is
also especially designed. It is hoped that the commanding general
will consider it to the interest of the service to adopt promptly the
proposed or some other plan approved by his judgment as best adapted
for securing the object desired.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
S. P. MOORE,
Surgeon- General C. S. Army.,
A.
SURGEON-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Richmond, November 14, 1863.
Col. L. B. NORTHROP,
Commissary- General, Richmond :
COLONEL: I desire to inform you that in the prompt establishment
of hospitals in the rear of armies and in their removal from point to
point, as necessitated by the contingencies of the movements in the
field, the Medical Department is much embarrassed by the present
system of organization of the Commissary Department. When such
arrangements exist as at present in the Army of Tennessee, where
these, the post commissaries, are required to consult the chief com-
missary of General Bragg's army and to procure special authority
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