from Messrs. Lux & Bowley informing
me, the waggons were arrived, but to their great surprise with only
two packages of medicines, the others being seized near
Williamsburg for the use of Virginia State. Those arrived contain
but a very small share of any of the articles mentioned in your
list and I believe none of the Bark and Cantharides. I shall
immediately proceed to Baltimore and examine those two packages &
if good send them on to Manheim, provided the price is
agreeable.... I shall inquire into the circumstances of the seizure
and endeavor to find out if there has been any unfair play which I
can hardly suspect from the character of the Gentlemen.

Just prior to May 1, Craigie returned to Carlisle, where the
"Elaboratory and Stores for the reception of the medicines &c.
belonging to the military hospitals" was established,[139] and
complained that he did not find the medicinal store in the order which
he expected to find it:

We have many important medicines but by no means an assortment
sufficient for the Army. I speak only of what is now in store.
There are Medicines in different places of which I have no list.

Craigie further noted that Cutting had come up from Yellow Springs on
May 1 to confer regarding plans for completing medicine chests, and
would leave the following day for Baltimore where he obviously was
going to try to purchase more drugs.

Craigie was puzzled by the establishment of a dispensing store at
Yellow Springs, and asked whether or not the plan was

... to have the principle Store at Carlisle, where all the
medicines shall be prepared, and the Chests compleated supposing
the Genl. Hospitals will be more collected, and the number
lessened. I would propose that an Apothecary attend each with a
compleate Chest of Medicines; that the Surgeon & Physician Genl of
the Army be attended by an Apothecary with good Chest, and the
Regiments supply'd upon the Northern Plan. I would have an Issuing
Store established at a convenient distance from the Army, from
which the Hospital and Regimental Chests might occasionally be
replenished.[140]

A sizable stock of drugs was finally received from Baltimore,[141] and
a fairly good stock was brought down from the stores in the Northern
Department, which were left well supplied by Craigie and Potts.[142]
An improved plan for obtaining lint fro