The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 4, Volume 3. Page: 60
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CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
from him, the embarrassment is still greater, as particularly shown
by the reports concerning the provisions made for the wounded after
the battle of Chickamauga. The duties and responsibilities of the
chief commissary of that and other of our armies, especially when
such armies are actively operating against the enemy, are so great
that it is impossible for him to give that attention to the wants of the
hospitals being organized or removed from point to point which the
existing circumstances require. Communication, too, with his sub-
ordinates and with the medical director of hospitals in the rear being
cut off or rendered difficult and irregular, it is impossible that the
requisite arrangements can be properly effected. In view, then, of
the inconvenience and injury of the service which have resulted from
this imperfect arrangement, it is.urgently recommended that a special
commissary, independent of the authority of the chief commissary in
the field, to receive authority directly from headquarters at Richmond,
be assigned to the performance of such duties of the Commissary
Department as relate to the supply of commissary stores to the sick
and wounded, and to hospitals organized and to be organized, or
transferred in the rear of the several armies of the Confederacy now
in the field.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
S. P. MOORE,
Surgeon-General C. S. Army.
B.
SURGEON-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Richmond, November 14, 1863.
Brig. Gen. A. R. LAWTON,
Quartermaster- General :
GENERAL: 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, as also especially in the transportation of the sick and wounded,
the Medical Department is much embarrassed by the present organi-
zation of the Quartermaster's Department, and by the lack of funds
in the hands of the respective quartermasters at the points where
these accommodations of the sick are to be improvised. When such
arrangements exist as at present in the Army of Tennessee, where
these quartermasters are required to consult the chief quartermaster
of General Bragg's army, and to procure their funds and special
authority from him, the embarrassment is still greater, as particu-
larly shown by the reports concerning the provisions made for the
wounded after the battle of Chickamauga. The duties and respon-
sibilities of the chief quartermaster of that and other of our armies,
especially when such armies are actively operating against the enemy,
are so great that it is impossible for him to give that attention to the
wants of the hospitals being organized, and to the transportation of
the wounded which the existing circumstances require. Communi-
cation, too, with his subordinates, and with the medical director of
the hospitals in the rear being cut off, or rendered difficult and
irregular, it is impossible that the requisite arrangements can be
properly effected. In view, then, of the inconvenience and injury to
the service which have resulted from this imperfect arrangement, it
is urgently recommended that a special quartermaster, independent
of the authority of the chief quartermaster in the field, to receive60
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