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From the Eleanor S. Brockenbrough Library, Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond VAClopton Hospital Surgeon Genl S. P. Moore,
When the wounded were brought into this this [sic] Hospital on May 31st it was destitute of nurses and servants, and without a Surgeon, and but for the aid of Mrs. Judge Clopton and the ladies of the neighborhood the patients would have undergone great privations, but woman true to her nature, watched and waited night and day, by the bedside of the sufferers, unwearied, untiring and devoted to the cause of liberty and humanity. I do not mean to use the language of mere Panegyric(?) when I say that Mrs. Clopton and the other ladies performed the most laborious duties of dressing wounds, nursing &c not only without a ____ but with joy that they possessed the power to serve the suffering soldiers of At the request of Mrs. Clopton I was appointed Surgeon on
the 1st of June and in complement to her I named it the Clopton
Hospital, as a tribute for the interest and zeal she manifested in attending to
the comforts of the establishment; for three weeks the cooking was attended to
by her servants in her kitchen and at her expense. The ladies were more
particularly of benefit during the period the Hospital was filled with the
wounded as we found it difficult to procure intelligent nurses for the wages
paid by the Confederacy, I also would here refer to the efficient aid afforded me by Dr. P. Brown in the arduous duties of the first six weeks of the management of this Hospital, when the whole labor of prescribing &c devolved on me [unsigned] From the Eleanor S. Brockenbrough Library, Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond VA
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