Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-11-09
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our soldiers Hospitals and HospI atty

orr Soldiers Hospitals and H0spl AMY.
Msssrs Edlors-No patriot, no christian, no phi
lanthropist surely can visit the carriage shop or
warehouses on Market steeet, and not be moved at
the sight of suffering there presented. Between
Eve and six hundred sick soldiers have been brought
down from Bowling Green and slowed away in the
above quarters, in various stages OF disease, and
hundreds more are yet to come perhaps thousand
The question would respectfully ask OF this com
munitv is: SIS this the best we can do for them!
know that their condition in these quarters is far
nreferable TO what it would be in their tents, or
camp. Ihave witnessed with proud satisfaction
the kindness that are being shown them by the la
dies of the SOLDIERS Hospital Association of this
city over which Mrs FoGG presides, but still ask
are these quarters such as these soldiers deserve at our
hands. Is This the best manifestation Of Hospitality that
The far fa,ned ci.y of Nashville can GfJrd Is there
father or mother in this city who would be willing
to see son of theirs sick, and crowded into such
q Mace, upon sack of hay and pillow Of hard
straw under his head? Go, fathers and mothers of
Nashville and visit those warehouses-they should
never be dignifed by the name of hospitals, for
there is no hospitality associated with them-and
look in upon those suffering boys and say If you
could sleep in your warm rooms aRd upon your
doyny couches if you knew that your son, your
only son. was stretched upon one Of these bags OF
straw, marched and deirious with fever, amid that
uucessing din of coughing and groaning and Vomit-
ing and the heavy tread of nurses and as IS the case,
and as must needs be the case, with very little med
iesl attention whatever Weuld you not be willing
to take YOUR own son, even if he looked as dirty
and unseemly as any one of those boys, into your
,rb roighf hn q ffnp and
give him bed and quietude, and nurse him with
tender care? o, if your dear boy was in far OF
State lying in old clubhouse or stable, exposed to
death, would you not bless the family that would
open ts house and receive that poor boy and treat
him like their own son? Each soldier in the ware
houses is the son Of some fond mother, as dear to
them as your son is to you, and will not those
parents bless you evermore parents Of Nashville,
If YOU will step forward and take these, the sons of
the Southern Conederacy, these defenders Of Nash
vile, into your houses, to your warm rooms, and
beds. and tables?
Surely, surely, the very best this city can offer
is not one whit too good for these brave men who
have left home and comforts. and come from dis
tapt States to interpcse their breasts so many
shields between us-between this city and the in
Va0InC lOes are buSsC bASiAs "uCA b4iSJ 80 SIN
from hardships and exposure, and are sent to this
city. to be turned into cur old warehouses BY the
hundreds together, with scarcely the first comforts
sick men should have, less comfortable quarters thar
Richmond offers the hundreds Of prisoners sent there
If we the citizens of Nashville suffer this it will be
and deserves to bs-a lasting shame and Disgrace T.
us and our city. 1t would positively be disgrace
70 this city and the Southern Confederacy, to put
our enemies if prisoners and sick, into less COM
Portable quarters If we OF Nashville, canno
show these soldiers any hospitality why can We moi
induce, or procure and offer to the Government the
State University buildings and barracks for city
hospital Four hundred or more could be infinitely
better provided for in the rooms of those nov
vacant buildings than in the old warehouses about
the CITY, If those buildings cannot be obtained ther
ara no Southern homes for Southern soldiers in
this city; let our meeting houses all be opened and
the members of our churches worship God by dsily
mnstratons at the bedsides of the sick sons Of tn
South and let the minister of religion hold his sab
bath worship by reading the precious word to snC
Offering prayer for them. Are our meeting house
better than the hundreds now in use in Virginia
Is our University buildings-are our two Aedica
Scool buildings better than the Richmond College
and the Richmond Medical School buildings!
But propose something far better than these
that we manifest something of Southern hospitality
There are one Thousand families in this city an
within five miles of it, that could without sacriAc
worth naming in such cause as ours, receive froI
two to six of these poor sufferers in their homes
and nurse tn m IN warm beds as they uDod their on
SIMS The best rooms and beds in our houses al
none too good for them; but such beds as we wou
be willing to see our own sons upon, we can fui
nish, and they will bless us and fond mothers ar
fathers at home will bless US, and the God Of h
nanity will bless US for the deed
This treatment on the part of the citizens
Nashville will save nine out of every ten that OF
srviss will die il left in the waFehouses-not be
pitRls-~for they are not deserving OF tne nam