Following the usage of your festival, I offer the following sentiment:—
The Valley of the Connecticut. Happy in its fertility, and also in its beauty; happier still in that inspiration of Liberty which is better than fertility or beauty.
AMBULANCE AND HOSPITAL CORPS.
Resolution in the Senate, December 3, 1862.
The following resolution, offered by Mr. Sumner, was adopted.
RESOLVED, That the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia be directed to consider the expediency of providing by law for the establishment of a corps composed of men especially enlisted for hospital and ambulance service, with officers commissioned purposely to command them, who shall have the entire charge, under the medical officers, of the hospitals and of the ambulance wagons, so as to enlarge the usefulness of this humane service, and give to it the efficiency derived from organization.