The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-04-21
Com. I'd Id M. Tenn. C-vaIry

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TO tie Officers and attaches Of R9syral
No. 2~-GENTLEMEN. / need not conceal
the satisfaction experienced from the
unexpected and handsome testimonial Of
your regard bestowed upon the eve of
my departure from the hospital for the
duties Of my regiment, now in the front.
No higher qualification falls to the lot of
an executive officer than the good will
and esteem of those with whom he has
been in daily contact for a length Of
time and this is more especially the
case when his Office is Of a nature to re.
quire unpleasant acts of supervision and
control.
After a period Of nearly fourteen
months service in the Hospital, it gives
me no smallPleasure to leave il in a con.
dition 80 furnishing and prosperous, and
in keeping with its character as one Of
the largest and most commodious hospi-
tails in the service. With three large and
costly brick and stone edifces, erected at
a heavy cost for the oldest University in
the State, answering admirably well for
hospital purposes, with spacious grounds
and a high, healthy location, it is, with
all its surroundings, an establishment to
which one welt might be attached.
Nor has il been an idle charity. The
number Of gallant men, sick or wounded.
ending the comforts Of home within IFS
walls, has never been less than five hun
bred, and has occasionally been more
than seven hundred. Ours has indeed
been all the while a double hospital: and
thus has furnished ample employ ment to
the able and indefaligablo corps of AS
sistant Surgeons Drs. Ashurst, Burnett.
and Albright, of Pennsylvania, aud Drs.
Green, Scott, aud Jennings, Of Ohio. To
their faithful and constant efforts ! must
award a high share of the merit Of lis
present satisfactory state. Notonly have
ve been favored with room and with pa
tents to occupy il, but what is not less
grateful TO the memory in reviewing tie
past, is that the management Of the hos
pital has all along yielded a large fund,
which has never been held back or ex-
pended in a niggardly manner, but has
enabled US to make the sick conjor able IN
eusry respect.
lt5can be safely asserted that our men
have suffered for nothing that care and
money could procure. Ny successor
Major James Bryan, Surgeon u S. ", OF
Philadelphia, beings with him a high
and established reputation as a sur
geon, a physician, and a gentleman,
aud ! am confident that under his charge
the Nashville University Hospital will
rank as it did under that Of my dis
tinguished predecessor, Major A. H..
ThurstOn, Assistant Medical Director
Department Of the Cumberland, as one Of
the first in America. know that he will
fad a most faithful and competent corps
Of co-workers in all the attaches.
Hereafter, through many a day and
many q night, as your handsome gin, in
announcing the revolving hours, reminds
me of the givers, will / join you IN the
fervent wish, that the hour Of peace aud
OF Uoion may arrive. For the one can
not come without the other. Let an men
everywhere rally Internationally around
the government established by our heroic
ancestors, and then will all the horrors
Of war be banished FROM our land for
generations TO come, as during genera
tions last. May you all live, aud see,
aud enjoy the glory aud prosperity still
in store for the Great American Republic.
A. w, KELLY.