The Daily Dispatch: April 23, 1864., [Electronic resource]

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Federal inhumanity to their own wounded.

--An incident in connection with a Federal defeat is published in the New York Tribunes, which, if we were not acquainted, with the inhumanity, of Federal officers, we should deem almost incredible. When the Cosmopolitan arrived at Beaufort with a cargo of 240 wounded men, a ball was going on. Generals Gilmore and Saxon, who were present, immediately left the festive scene and went to the boat, and then heard for the first time of the defeat of the army; the only intimation of a reverse prior to this was a telegram from Hilton Head stating that some wounded men were on their way. Gen. Saxon returned to the ball room, informed the guests of the catastrophe, and ordered the lights to be put out. We will give the rest of the narrative in the words of the New York Tribune:

A second time he had to give the command before it was obeyed. A surgeon present made a little speech, setting forth the superfluity of the man date, inasmuch as the wounded men were not to be removed until the following morning About half a dozen doctors were at the ball. A telegram had been sent from Hilton, Head to Beaufort, an hour and a half before the boat arrived, to prepare the hospitals for the sufferers on the Cosmopolitan, and to have ambulances in readiness on the docks Nevertheless no transportation was at hand to take away the wounded for three quarters of an hour after the boat arrived. And the poor fellows were not removed until morning, sure enough.