The number inmates in the several hospitals in Richmond has decreased so of late that it has been deemed more economical to remove the few patients to other hospitals and close them while they undergo renovation for the reception of victims of future battles. None of the hospitals now contain half the number of wounded that did a week after the late battles.
– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p. 2
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