From the Richmond Dispatch, 8/21/1861, p. 2
Supplies from the Country for the Sick and Wounded.
- The response of the country people to the appeal of the Richmond committee for
the care of the sick and wounded, made through our paper a few days ago, has
been liberal to a degree that excites the admiration of every beholder. Yet the
enormous consumption of chicken, eggs, butter, meats and vegetables, compels the
committee to remind their friends that a continuance of their bounty is
essential to the success of the St. Charles Hospital, where hundreds of sick and
convalescent men have to be fed every day at the expense of private
contributions. Other smaller hospitals are in a similar situation, and should be
likewise remembered. The gentlemen in the country heretofore designated to act
as county and neighborhood committees, and any others disposed to do so, are
requested to exert themselves. Articles may be sent, as heretofore, to the
stores of Messrs. Watt & Co., W. G. Dandridge, and Spotts & Harvey, or to the
St. Charles.
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