White Oaks eagle. (White Oaks, N.M.) 189?-190?, 1903-05-14

wounded were sent to this hospital where
they received the same rations, medical
attentions and privileges as other patients.
Frequently for weeks the bread for prison
ers on Belle Island and Liby prison, was
baked at the hospital bakery, and was the
same in kind as that used in the hospital
All wines and liquors (the best grades of
which were obtained through the personal
friendship of Mrs. Snowden, blessed be
her memory president of Ladies hospital
association, of Charlston, Virginia, to block
ade runners from Nassau were dispensed
through hospital matrons. No medical
officer was allowed to touch it, under pen
atty of immediate orders to the field.
The government of Winder Hospital,
was the inspiration of every official and at
tendant, with laudable ambition to ex
cell. To this end | told every medical Off
Ger, reported to me for duty that printed
rules and regulations of hospital were post
ed in every apartment; that | was its head
fired with love and zeal for duty and that
every official and attendant in it was there
with high purpose and firm resolve to
make for it record One harmonious
whole, nj loving kindness to its sick and
suffering.
Will you be Que with its chief surgeon to
add joy to your Environments and say when
YOU lie down at night Il have lived this
| day to relieve the suffering of those around
me! We are all here (in this mighty con-
hict laundering at the very doors OF our
| Capital) for a record of every duty accom-
plished. we'll know that it is custom with
many medical officers in the field, when
they draw their monthly supplies of liquors,
to call in their regmental officers and drink
it up. | well know that many officials when
they get into new suit of clothes, star
or a bar on their collars, begin to feel that
they are better and look down on the rug
ged soldiers around them but this is not
truth. Many patient in this hospital is
socially intellectually and financially our
peer. You will be required to treat then,
and every attendant with the same cour-
tesv and decorum that marks YOU to be a
Southern Gentleman. Believing that we
always get the best there is out of our fel-
low beings, that is, their best service, by
appealing to the nobler and better attr
butes OF their mind and heart, make thi:
appeal to YOU, to emulate the example o
your chief surgeon in fullhllment of ever,
personal and official duty; and | now chal
lenge you, every person in this hospital, t'
see that | toe the mark of its regulations
cial performs well his part. At trumpet
call, every day except Sunday, the six divi
sion surgeons met me at my Office to in
| spect one of their divisions. This | di
( promscuollslv, so that they were all com
: PEELED to keep their divisions in perfect OF
0 der, not knowing their day for inspection
. If found every thing i'll commendabl
: condition, after inspection, my rule was t
e dismiss them with some complementar
: remark to the surgeon in charge. Fror
0 this sprung laudabe ambition in eac
i division surgeons heart to have as muc
+ said for them upon their day of inspection
, This rule worked so successfully, that aftt
d a few months confessed to them that
Il was my secret of government of Winde
d Hospital and | then reminded them tn;
l. the lives of all the great rulers and govern
5 ors in the world, teach us that man
d make success in all he attempts he mu