Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-11-19
TIRE EIEszEssIPPI HOSPITAL IN
VIRGINIA.

As "a matter of interest to our Mississippi read
ers, we give the following, from Rev c. K. MAR.
sHALE., Director Of Mississippi Hospital in Vir.
ginia for the benefit Of the sick and wounded sol
5iars. 1t was addressed TO the President OF the
Soldiers Aii Society" at Holly Springs:
RICHsIOND, Va, Nov. 4, 1861.
E-rEEMzD MADAM: Your favor, inquiriug
respecting the condition and prospects of tire
-l py Hospital in Virginia, and the best
Way .. ladies' can contribute to its support, and
other Hatls1s connected Herewith, is Just re-
ceivel. So interesting to me is the hospital, and
so important do I deem 1t that cur people at
h0mc should sustain it, that pause in the midst
Sd. pressing engagements to reply to yours.
have alca ly written several letters to distin-
eas-Lld citizens setting forth our condition and
necessities, but, so far, hear nothing Of any
movement to assist or sustain me.
The good women Of different parts of our STATE
have sent forward quite a supply of articles for
the.use of Che sick aud convaicscen5. They are
stored and arranged in rooms, On shelves. and So
tas.eflliy assorted by the excellent women in
special charge Of that department, that any arti-
ca, ly night or day, osn at once be found. It
taEas tine time Of one lady and often two OF three,
t. attend t2 this depot alone. It viii need CON
sauly to be rlplouishel, but at present, anl at
t..s distance, am not able to say what article
would be most acceptable or most needed OF
tlat viii inform you hereafter.
You inquire whether it would not be better to
remit the money for the purchase of such articles
as we need Ny answer to that is in favor of the
money. have had to borrow from the banks
'oi Richmond for nearly three weeks, on my own
cu.ut. after having used my own private
funds 10 the last dime We have to buy
everything OF have had TO doup to this time. 1
believe the government win give me some aid
hereafter
Tia, surgeons general, Dr. Moore, expresses
.rreat satisfaction at the results and general
management of the institution, and viii help me
hereafter. But, s.ill, we must purchase almost
every dslieacy, butter, eggs, sugar, molasses-
milk. ETC.. pay rents (and the rent bin VIII be
uaar $500 per mouth), clerk hire; and other
Things too numerous to detail here.
For varfous reasons I could not open the
ar-sHmaut till about the 20th of September,
but re have already had about, perhaps, little
over four hundred inmates, all MississiPpians.
We have lost six or seven by death, returned
many TO service, and yet We are fall And I am
deeply paiued to be obliged to inform you that
besides these, many Of our sick men are scattered
into numerous other places, because I have not
room lJr chem
have urged upon the quartarmaster at
Jackson the importance Of furnishing me the
funds and authority to purchase a hotel at War
rrgrton. 70 add TO our hired buildings. It can
.1aI Otherwise be obtained. Had not the times
deprived me Of the immediate ability, would
never have slept till the deed had been recorded,
and the building devoted to the cause and com
fort of our suffering soldiers. And as winter
comes or. va7iuus forms of disease wiz be de-
veropcd. requiring good rooms, and an album
a.r them Whether the slow movements
,r s sefreumlocuton at Jackson win enable
.... 70 get the property, l am unabls TO say, but
g.. ,,r..17 make your hearts ache to know what
results follow from the want Of it. It would
e..rT qt no great loss when we were done with it,
Resides we must establish % Soldiers Home E"
So, .l. heart of the State, and adom and beauti-
rrf- for our manned, wounded, iniirm, anI di,
.fr.d volunteers, who viii in hundreds Of
instances have no other home.
Vow. since money is very scarce, and in great
r.-r-u7 l want 70 see a liberal subscription Of
cation. by our planters, to the hospital-say the
-.+.-l1 uud-for we shall need similar means
r. -.rfsc elsewhere, and for many years after the
.-.-.. and lst tine Legislature advance twenty
dollars per bale 0u all such subscriptions for ti,s
,r-,.ss. and Jet It b. stored and sold when
Enron. lays the money on Gao merchants desk
and points to thcir feet quietly fastened at our
,-ba-yes ready to carry it away In this way
-, small be able to take care Of our sick soldiers
I'm a manner becoming our cause and their
claims. The government cannot do the work.
--8af7e5. as IT deserves to be done.
Allow rneto say that our hospital is near the
.se,mpnent Of the great mass of MississiPPians
now in the army of the Potomac. mean near, !
..,r,naratively The other States which are en- !
-.--d M the same way in relieving their sick, |
7..g.. .heir establishments here in Richmond, |
,.ouseguent!y the sick must be removed I37 miles
., a railroad. after being hauled in an ambu- |
lane. or wagon from five to twenty-five miles. !
Warrington is small town, off the main rail- |
r.sI TO Manassas, nine miles, and only twenty |
.ro miles from that general depot Everything