From the Richmond Dispatch, 5/23/1862, p. 3, c. 4

ROYSTER HOSPITAL,
RICHMOND, VA., May 28, 1862.

ALL OUT-PATIENTS of this hospital will report themselves at this hospital, either personally or through a regular practitioner of medicine, either military or civil, within twenty-four hours.

Failing to comply with this order, they will be advertised as deserters.

By order of the Surgeon General,
                                                                                    O. A. CRENSHAW,
                                                                                    Surgeon in charge hospital.

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