From the Richmond Daily Dispatch, 8/15/1861
More Sick to be Provided For. - The Hospital established in Gilliam’s
tobacco factory has just received, or will receive to-day, two hundred new
patients. They are without supplies of almost every kind. Especially do they
need blankets, coverlets, sheets, and pillows. - We would suggest to those who
desire to aid them as well as the other sick, to make as many pillows as
possible of soft straw or hay; also, collect together all the old shirts,
drawers, socks, flannels, &c., in the various families, patch and mend them, and
they will serve a very good purpose. Few of he sick have even a shirt to change
in, but have to lie from day to day, and often from week to week, in the same
soiled and sour garments. To such, an old shirt even would be a great luxury.
Don’t forget the wagon that is to leave the depot of the Army Committee, 4th
door, under the Spottswood, with supplies for the camps, to-day at 2 P. M. Send
in your contributions of fresh vegetables, delicacies and clothing early this
morning. Send the pillows and the old clothes to the depot as soon as they are
ready.
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