... dispensing store is open'd here [at Yellow Springs] and we have
begun to supply the Regiments in Camp.... Dr. Cochran has given
orders to the Division on the left to bring their Chests first, and
we propose going through the whole Army in the order in which they
lay.... The best method I can think of is to act immediately about
preparing new Chests upon the Northern Plan at some convenient
place for all such Battallions as did not get chests from Dr.
Craigie [in the] last campaign. When these new parcels are ready,
let us call all the large chests into the Stores ... which are too
compleat & capacious for Field Service, & in lieu of them give out
our smaller ones. By this exchange, the Genl. Hospital will be
well supplied with standing Chests & acquire a great variety of
useful articles which are not essential in Camp.