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

GENERAL HOSPITAL,
RICHMOND, May 23, 1862.

ALL patients registered in this hospital, who have been permitted to reside outside the building, will report to me in person at this Hospital at 2 P. M. on Saturday, 24^th instant.

If too unwell to report in person, they will report through some regular practitioner of medicine, military or civil. Failing to do so, they will be advertised as deserters.

By order of Surgeon General,

                                                                                    CH. BELL GIBSON,
                                                                                    Surgeon P. A. C. S,
                                                                                    In charge of Gen’l Hosp’l.

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