Article Regarding Civil War Patients from steamer New York to Annapolis 
Hospitals (1863), Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland

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I have copied this exactly as it appears in the newspaper.  

The New York Times
Sunday, November 22, 1863

Article Preceding - 
Names of Patients in the Annapolis Hospitals

"To the Editor of the New-York Times:
	I send for publication in the TIMES a list of three hundred and fifty of 
our paroled men who came on the steamer New York to this point yesterday.  They 
were in a most wretched condition.  Six poor fellows died on board on the way 
from Fortress Monroe.  Only three of these could tell their names and regiment.  
These were G. B. WINGATE, First Massachusetts cavalry; J. LESH, Co. D, 
Eighteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer cavalry; and GEORGE MULHOLLAND, Sixty-ninth 
Pennsylvania Volunteers.  Two also died as soon as we got them into their wards 
at the hospital.  I have, since the war began, been with our wounded and sick 
men, but never before have I been so moved with sadness and pity as in 
witnessing the last two arrivals of our men from Richmond at this point.  Some 
of the men say that these received yesterday were picked out as the best of the 
lot.  If so, we can only say "God pity and speedily relieve those left behind".  
To-day nine bodies were placed in front of the pulpit in the chapel, where 
funeral services were performed previous to carrying them to the soldier's 
cemetery.  It was a sight that brought tears to many an eye. Not that we saw so 
many locked in the cold embrace of death, but that we saw these, our comrades 
and brothers, the fallen victims of rebel barbarity - literally starved to 
death.  Is there no remedy for this?  As some of those who were able were 
hobbling off the boat a kind-hearted lady remarked to them - "Well, I am 
thankful to see you with your friends again, but it makes my heart ache to look 
at you."  Two or three replied - "Madame, don't pity us; we are the best lot; 
pity the thousands we have left behind - forty-three on an average are dying 
every day."  The worst cases are left in the Division Hospital, No. 11, B. A. 
Vanderkieft, Surgeon in charge.  His kind attention to these suffering men, and 
also those of Dr. Parker, of the College Hospital, receive the praise and 
grateful thanks of all here.
		Yours, 		I. O. SLOAN.
Annapolis, Md., Nov. 19, 1863"