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June 8.
The battle has been fought, and we have had fearfully hard work with the wounded at this point. . . . . The results of the fight in the shape of wounded men began to appear on Monday, and since then every train has brought in varying numbers.
Nearly four thousand have been sent away from here. . . . . I have the charge of a sort of hospital, with kitchen, &c., which has been established at the terminus of the railway, for the reception of the sick and wounded as they come down.
The general hospital to which patients are sent from the front is about a third of a mile distant from the railway; and as most of the trains arrive here in the night, it would be difficult to move them to the hospital as they arrive, and they would be obliged to remain in the cars all night.
At Mr. Olmsted's suggestion, therefore, about sixty tents were pitched at the side of the railway, capable of containing about four hundred men; and the kitchen, and the care of these tents, and the men in t