From the Richmond Enquirer, 6/26/1862, p. 2, c. 5
A NUMBER OF NEW HOSPITALS have been established in the
lower part of the city to answer the requirements of the next fight. While this
has been the case the majority of the patients received from the battle of May
31st, into those Hospitals previously established have either been
sent to their homes, or up the Canal into the country, or gotten sufficiently
recovered to leave. Only the most desperately wounded men now remain at any of
the Hospitals. Not long ago the Masonic fraternity offered both of its lodges in
the city to be used for the accommodation of the wounded; but the Surgeon
General, while returning the Order thanks for its patriotism, has declined to
avail himself kind offer, the rooms secured elsewhere for the above purpose
being deemed amply sufficient, unless, indeed, we are forced to care for
McClellan’s wounded as well as our own.
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