Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-11-12
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Hospisals and Hospitality o.

HospitaIs and Hospitality O. g.
NIssRs. EDI1oas: 1t is truly gratifying to learn
from various sources how cordially the suggestions
offered in pve vious article were received by many
IN THE city, aud that several offered yesterday to
take o1e or more soldiers to their houses. This Is
a. it shoald ba-nst soldier shOuld be left in the
warehouses.
But lest my good intent may be misconStrued BY
aome write ih.s. l have heard two objections to
my proposals to take these sick soldiers into onr
families and nursing them as We would our own
sons-as we would wish our own sons to be nursed
were they sick in Virginia or Kentucky.
lat That this course would be interfering with
the medical STAFF" that it would be setting bad
precedent" some one is reported to have said
/ do not know what this latter expression means
Il il ssrting q bad precedent for Southern fathers
and mothers to spsR their houses and receive the
sck, suffering dying soldiers of the Southern Con-
federacy TO teir hrssdes and hospitaitles-notA hos
pital-Iies bad pEecedent foraoOth, among chris
tan community that has learned its code from the
lips of the great easher who learns US that his mai
bsne diction vii. rest upon those who found him,
stranger in the person of his humblest follower
here on earth and took him in, not sent him to an
unocc upied ware house, 10 bed of straw. Hun
dreds of professed followers of the SaVlor-our
brethren and among those suffering boys; who says
it il interfering to take them in, and bid
them welcome, thousand times welcome to all
our comforts, and by kind nursing restore them
Immediately to their regiments Interfering with
them? Who has the control of these sick men
No one in the Southern COnfederacY except DR..
YANDEL whom all will find 8 most agreeable gem
tleman and humanitarian, and We are happy to
say widely known to the public IS a distinguished
surgeon. Dr.. YANDEL heartily approves Of the sug
gested treatment and will express his hearty thsnks
to the ia mily that will receive of hiG poor Euf-
fering men under itS roof.
We are confident that he has done all that he
could DO with his small force of medical assistants
with seven or eight hundred sick precipitSted upon
his hands within forty -eight hours, l would re-
upectfully ask any physician, if ten skilfui physi-
clans and as many medical nurses or assistants,
would be two large a staff for eight hundred one
thousand sick neni
Il is to be hoped most devouty hoped that that man
does not live in this community, whS would thwsrt
a course of action, already inaugurated, that will
not only reflect the highest praise upon this city,
but the lives of scores if not hundreds of our
soldiers and return them all in the shortest possible
time to active service.
2. Itmay be thought by some, that what we have
written and said upon this subject calculated to
make the soldiers dissstis fed with their quarters
and treatment. Let any one who reads this, go and
converse with them and they will see that the above
superstition is groundiess. Those men know that
the ladies of the Hospital Association" and doubt
less others also are doing all that angel woman can
do for them in these ware houses, and they will
bless them until their latest day for it-tGst the few
uay astonishIngly few-physicians are doing what
they can under the circumstances; but DR.. YANDEL
knows, all know that they cannot receive the
care, the nursing tie quetude that they deF rye,
and that our homes afford, in those old warehouses.
Why, should this band of noble and devoted women
be left to bear She whole heat and burden of nurs-
ing and looking after these multiplied hundreds E?
Relieve them Of their present Hercuean labors, and
let them devote their energies to the supply of the
numerous articles of clothing, ETC., etc, that these
meen need, ard net want will be left unsuppled.
No not to dss isfy these soldiers my object in
suggesting thst We show them that character of
hospitality which has so distinguished the city of
Richmond ar should characterize every Southern
CITY. These 70 n nearly all Of them, are the sons
of wealth, and know what home and comforts, and
even luxuries ere, and they all know that better
accommodation, can be afforded in this city and j
how thankful O. how thankful they would be for
them, and What a thrill of gratitude would such
attention send 70 their homes.
No one can COW misconstrue what have said, as I
rejecting upon those physicians and ladies who are
doing what they to save life and ale
viate suffering in those warehouses-and l
have but one more argument to urge on
behalf of the soldiers, and to. secure for
them hospitality worthy Of Nashville. Viz: We
eutreat each father and mother and sister in Nash
vile to 60 doER and visit each house frem the bot
tom even TO tie OSck-loft, and say if you would
be willing to sac sen brother lie ard experience
the discomfortz thSE experiencing in spite of
all that woman and physicians DO for
them. Visit the cots at the extreme end Of each
room 6y all means AID say srhGt consideration soouG
induce you to lie 1ers for days and months, and breathe
that tiad dtruosphSe.
With the present number these. rooms 1oA breed
disease and insure the death Of the inmates. Go and
take sick soldier or two.t the. quetude of your
kouss. Il VIII Hs an act that God will bless.
J.R. GRAVES.