Brigadier General Ord, in his report of the brilliant victory of his brigade at Drainesville, complains of not having had a sufficiency of ambulances to carry off the field the wounded of his own men and those of the enemy. Some of his killed and wounded had to be carried a distance of twelve miles on stretchers. And yet he adds, “that the Pennsylvania ambulances for this division are lying empty at Washington, by orders (as he supposes) of the Circumlocution office.”
The Daily Manchester American, Manchester, NH