_Spaulding_ coming up in time to assist, and the officers of the _Sebago_ (gunboat), who had seen how hard pressed we were in the afternoon, volunteering for the night-watch. Add to this sundry members of Congress, who, if they talked much, at least worked well. We went to bed at daylight with _breakfast_ on our minds. At half past six we were all on board the _Webster_ No. 2, and the breakfast of six hundred men was got through with before our own. * * * * * (A lady on the _Knickerbocker_.) _Sunday._—"Three hundred wounded to come on board!" I wish you could see the three hundred white beds, with a clean shirt and drawers laid ready for each man.... They began to bring them in about noon. Many of them were shockingly hurt; but the men were proud of their wounds, and one of them, an artist, private of a New York regiment, was thankful that he had only lost a leg,—"so glad it wasn't his arm!" We went directly at work washing them, doing what we could, too, at dressing wounds which had been hastily bandaged on the battle-field thirty-six hours before. Men very patient and grateful always. * * * * * (A.) _Sunday Night._—The _Knickerbocker_ had, by estimate, three hundred and fifty on board. The night being fine, many were disposed of on the outer decks, and before I left, at eleven o'clock, nearly all had been washed, dressed, and put to bed decently, and were as comfortable as circumstances would admit of our making them. All had received needed nourishment, and such surgical and medical attention as was immediately demanded. Leaving the _Knickerbocker_ in this satisfactory condition, I came back in a small boat, at midnight, to the landing, where I found that the _Elm City_ already had five hundred wounded on board. I ordered her to run down and anchor near the _Knickerbocker_. There had been a special order in her case from the Medical Director to go to Washington. (I judge that this was given under the misapprehension that she had failed to go to Yorktown, and had her sick still on board.) She was unable to go at once for want of coal, which could not be furnished her till the evening of the next day (Monday). This finished the Commission's boats for the present. The _State of Maine_ had been ordered to the landing by the Harbor-master, and the wounded remaining on shore, excluded from the _Elm City_, were flocking on board of her. Our ladies on the _Elm City_ sent them some food, and we put on board from our supply-boat bedding and various stores, of which there was evident need, without waiting to be asked, and without finding any one to receive them, the surgeons being fully engrossed in performing operations of pressing necessity.