From Hugh Lenox Hodge (sent on board the hospital ship to Georgeanna.)
Cheeseman’s Landing, Friday.
Dear Georgy: I hope to see you and Eliza to-day. . . . We received all the wounded from the assault on the lunette alluded to, except one too badly hurt to move (who has since died, they tell me) and a few so slightly injured as to be retained for future service. The “boys” here say that Thomas Archer, your servant’s brother, did not belong to their Company H, but to Company A, and that he was among those left behind on account of his injuries being slight.
So far our patients, with hardly an exception, have been a superior class of men, and it has been a great pleasure to attend to them.
Dr. Tripler was here yesterday, and I was glad to hear of the probable removal of not only the 200 sick at Ship Point, but of 400 scattered elsewhere, to Boston, New York or Philadelphia.
