The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-12-06
CuIpepef Hospital.

and written about the management aud
managers of the hospital at CuIpeper Court
House, Va, we, through sense Of justice
due the Surgeon in charge of said hospital
and his subcrdinates, have concluded 10 glye
you, for the benefit of those having friends
and relations there, as graphic and as correct
statement of unpublished facts as we can
1t has been our fortune to have as good oppor.
tunIty OF knowing Of it's managame as any
who have hitherto visited it. While some
through yt Gr columns, have reported favor
ABLY OF its managers, others have been plea<ed
10 report most unfavorably. We know not
what their motives may have been, but to us
SUCH misreprs sen tations have the appearance
of an uaaer ground and a malicious work
Bu let tnat be as /. may. the sin must fall
upon their own heads; and the chief OF that
hospital Will. stand a living monument
against ali such faorications.
Inc hospital buildings are eight in mum.
Der, SIX OF which are two hundred feet long
Weatherboarded and ceiled; each having in
| IS centre chimney with two large fire
places, aud each end supplied with large
stove. The two other buildings are on q hun-
dred and fifty feet long and go ually as com
f'rtably warmed All are sufficiently venti-
lated from the top by means Of we'll. con-
structed ventiiators- These are each capaci-
ted TO comfortably bed from 60 to "a men and
! tn. former six one hundred each, making AZ
| aggregate Of $50 to 500 men neatly and com.
| fortsbiy decided. ~s-'
The suictess imaginable attention is paid
to cleanliness, bJ tn III and outside of the nos.
pitai. Every necessary means have bsep
provided TO keep the ground and wards clean
and placed under the control OF a general
steward, Mr. rayior, who is unfiring in his
| efforts to make himself equal to the duties
| that deyolve upon him.
The hospital is laid Off in divisions rst and
second; and each division subdiyided ist
WARDS. a surgeon Is assigned to each division
ana an assistant to each ward. And to each
ward, ward master, harse, and three OF
four servants. =.
so the First Division has been assigned to
ST1rO oria
pahannock county, Virginia AS a surgeon
anu physician he is OF the first class and for
his uniting and unceasing efforts in giving
aid and comfort to the sick and wounded, he
has merited an undyihg name. He asks no
higher honor than TO comfort and apply
balm TO sick or wounded soldier AS a
man, he Is one of the most unpretendiup nm
obfruslve, and unfiinching gentlemen In our
lnidst-6ind, Keeling, and attentive, with al
ear ever open to hear the wan rs of the aftiict.
ed, and hand ever outstretehed to give His
assistants are attentive and prompt in per-
forming the duties their position requires,
| each having his apporticned work They
are temperate, kind, and feeling, and at all
| times ready and willing to administer to the
wants and necessities OF The sick In fact,
| sstants.
To the second division is assigned a Sur
geon from Wheeling, whose name is Hons.
| ton. The corps Of assistants belonging to
| the second division are equally as efficient
kind, feeling, temperate, and as M ch sui tied
| to the position they mold as those of the first
division. One Of them has had the expe.
rience OF hospital practice in New York m.
is a man of fine medical attainmen TX and
just the man for the second division :
The sick are well fed Tney not only have
such diet as is allowed or provided for
them, by the Confederate authorities, in he
military and medical regulations, but mauy
| OF the delicacifs the county and town of Cui.
peper can furnish and at no distant period
from me fund which is rapidly increasing,
g nd ron atnaa
With such diet as the Surgeons may reqaire,
and in such quantities as will serve the
whole. Ten or twelve Indies are con tin ually
| engaged in Visiting upon the very sick. and
preparing jeilies, broths, soups, teas and
many other little articles OF diet suited to the
different stages of disease.
Surgeon ID. S. Green has charge OF the
whole. He is u native OF Culpeper county
and as near as we CAN jud dge is from IS 60 60
years old. In early LIE he received the an.
pointment OF Surgeon in the old Federal Ma
w, but when IL become necessary for the
South to dissolve her connec tion with tn :
North, he too diselaimed loyalty TO the hell
ish oligarchy, and came To the defence Of hi.
mother land. But when IT was known h.
had resigned his posi- tion Ia the federal Nayy.
he was At once commissioned Surgeon in the
Contederats states Navy, and ordered to tak
charge OF the Cnlpepsr hospital. A better an,i
more Juaieious selection could NOT have beer
made As Surgeon ana Physician. he Is Of the
first order. AS man, he il perfecs gen.
t,eMan. Ali know him bur TO rpsrect an
admire him. He, in managing the nos Of tai,
has systeInatized the whole, so that now ali
seems 20 work narmaaioasiy together; and 70
the adyantage OF not only those concerned II,
It's government, bat TO all who fs<a ter~ sssd,
directly or indirectly, In thA comfort OF the
slck, a. we'll az to those for whose comfort aud
ala tt " rs eS abtishsd. 20
Those having frisads AID relations In the
Culpeper H4spilai, ws think should console
themselves with the knowledge rhas IN sur.
geon Green their chiidrea, brothers, fathrrn.
and frisnds. have trend, protector, and Sur.
geon. lie y ever rsady and willing 70 con.
tribute TO the necessities of the sick a.
wounded-kind, feeling, and excesdinrly ~.
tsatiys; and Al no slms does he fail o give
may ask, either by letter or othsrwiss- co.,
cerning the sick In his charge. -
Mesars. Editors, II may appear that. ffora
are partial to the Uuipepsr Hosui tai ~ ~.
ayers. We are not; bat wish % 80 fhcta "a
abroad Instead OF fAlss Impressions
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