From the Richmond Dispatch, 6/3/1862, p. 3, c. 3

THE LADIES who have kindly offered their services to aid in nursing the wounded in Byrd Island Hospital are respectfully requested to meet at the Hospital, on this (TUESDAY) afternoon at 5 o’clock.

They will also confer a favor by contributing such articles of gentlemen’s under clothes as can be procured.

                                                                        By order of the
                                                                                    SURGEON IN CHARGE

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