From the Richmond Dispatch, 7/1/1861
Hospital at Masons’ Hall, 25th
Street, Church Hill. – This hospital was opened about four weeks ago, when
it received thirty-six sick men from Col. Fannin’s Arkansas Regiment. All of
these except two have recovered and gone to join their comrades, near Aquia
Creek. Numerous other patients from other companies have come and gone, making,
probably, about one hundred who have left the hospital. – About forty are
there now.
Only two deaths have occurred – one of these was
Patrick O’Riley, of the Hampden Artillery, of Richmond, who died in
twenty-four hours, from injuries received on his head by a fall from his horse
at Griffin’s Spring. – The other, Mr. Mears, of Arkansas, died soon after he
was brought to the hospital, from a complication of diseases. Private donations
of food, delicacies and money, are welcome at the hospital.
The people of Church and Union Hills, by their care
and labors for the Tennesseeans at the Hall of Company G, and the Temperance
Hall, have given themselves a lasting title to the esteem and gratitude of those
who received their timely aid, and indeed of all who love our country and its
brave defenders. The contributions of means and personal attendance at the
Mason’s Hall, shows that the charities of this part of the city are not
exhausted, in further proof of which we can state that parties are ready to
re-open the Temperance Hall as a hospital whenever necessary.
Many of the sick soldiers have been also quartered
at private houses among the good people aforesaid, where they have been attended
with the care of near relatives.
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