I would not let the Sanitary Committee carry off a boat-load of sick, because I have no right to.

We have good hospitals here, and plenty of them.

Our regimental hospitals are in the camps of the men, and the sick do much better there than in the general hospitals; so say my division surgeon and the regimental surgeons.

The civilian doctors would, if permitted, take away our entire command.

General Curtis sends his sick up here, but usually no nurses; and it is not right that nurses should be taken from my command for his sick.