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is Shortly after the battle of Fair Oaks, the new and
vastly more provident, liberal, and wisely economical
policy introduced into the medical service, with the ap-
pointment of Dr. Hammond as Surgeon-General, and of
the new corps of Medical Inspectors, began to be felt in
the army of the Potomac, - and although many of the
agents necessary to the perfect success of that policy were
unable at once to accommodate their habits to the re-
quired change, the Commission, scrupulously adhering to
its purpose to do nothing which the properly responsible
officials in any department evinced any readiness to do
without its assistance, had the satisfaction of seeing the
necessity for its special service, in connection with the
hospital transports, grow gradually smaller and smaller.
Under the dry, taciturn, and impenetrable manner, prom-
ising nothing, of the new Medical Director of the Army of
the Potomac, who, just after the battle of the Seven Days,
relieved a predecessor of precisely the opposite qualities,
was found to be concealed some influence by means of
which whatever had before been impossible began to be
thought possible, and to be tried for, after a few judicious
dismissals l had been made and, after a few visits of influ-
ential friends to Governors and Senators in behalf of the
dismissed had resulted in nothing but an incomprehensible
failure of their purpose, the Commission's occupation was
more than half gone with that army. But where so many
agents are to be depended on, and such sudden new dispo-
sitions and reorganizations must be made, as after those
terrible seven days, it is impossible that any demand of a
large army should always be promptly and fully met.
Anxiety for the well, that they might be saved from
disease, soon outweighed anxiety lest the sick should not
be tenderly cared for, and in more than one direction an
opportunity was found to supply temporary deficiencies,
which otherwise would have told severely upon the health
of many thousand men. During the month after the
army reached and intrenched itself on the James River,
the vessels managed by the Commission probably did a
better service in what they brought to the army, than in
the comfort they secured to the sick who were sent away
upon them The following extracts will serve to give the
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