Camp Butler, Newport News Va.June 2d, 1861To Col. J. W. Phelps. Commanding -Sir:

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In compliance with "Special Order No 1." issued May 30, 1861, to me directed I proceeded to Fort Monroe for the purposes in said order specified and beg leave to submit the following Report:- before examination I found the sick men in Hospital in a miserable condition as to cleanliness = Their apartments were with few exceptions very filthy there clothes and bedding unclean, and the air in many rooms so impure: as seemed to me to be unwholesom even for a well person:- I found that the steward and attendants had neglected their duty and that one patient had been two days without receiving medicine after it was ordered, by the surgeon:-

I was further informed by the patients that their food had not been provided with regularity and that they had sometimes been a long time without any:- I conclude from the best

information I could get that the surgeon had performed his duties faithfully, had visited the sick frequently, and made all necessary prescriptions:- The fault seemed to be principally with the steward and attendants:

The number of stewards, attendants, and sick in General Hospital at Fortress Monroe on the 1st day of June 1861, belonging to the 1st Regt Vt. Vols. are as follows:-

Steward-
E. P. Russell. Private 9th Co. Capt Hayward Middlebury

Attendants:-
Wm Hurlburt Private 1st Co. Capt Clark Swanton
Fred J. Willey " 6th " " Boynton Northfield
Nathaniel Bucklin " 7th " " Bush Brandon
Page G. Potter " 9 " " Hayward Middlebury

Sick:-
Wm Spencer Private 1st Co Capt Clark Swanton
C. Thomas " " " " " "
Harvey N. Bruce 2d Sergt 2nd " " Pelton Woodstock
J. Rogers Private 3rd " " Chandler St Albans
Dewey Sandford " " " " " " "
J. B. Bowditch " " " " " " "

P. S. Chamberlin 4th Sergt. 4th Co. Capt Andross Bradford
D. G. Child Private " " " " "
W. N. Jewell " " " " " "
A. J. McFarland " " " " " "
G. P. Moore " " " " " "
G. W. Flanders " " " " " "
E. G. Flanders " " " " " "
H. P. Williams " " " " " "
G. Lougee " " " " " "
P. Lougee " " " " " "
C. Wood " " " " " "
R. Maservey " " " " " "
A. D. Russell Private 5th Co. Capt Tuttle Cavendish
H. Allen " " " " " "
A. S. Field " " " " " "
F. D. Sargent " " " " " "
E. M. Carlisle " " " " " "
H. L. Kenyon " 6th " " Boynton Northfield
H. L. Wilson " " " " " "
W. B. Robinson 3rd Sergt 7th Co Capt Bush Brandon
J. L. Congdon Private " " " " "
B. Atchison " 8th Co Capt Peck, Burlington
C. W. Bates " " " " " "
C. H. Bostwick " " " " " "
J. Isham " " " " " "

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W. D. Talbot Private 9th Co. Capt Hayward Middlebury
C. E. Youtt " " " " " "

None sick in 10th Co. Capt Ripley Rutland

Respectfully SubmittedH. N. Worthen
Maj. 1st. Regt. Vt. Vols