Asks for instructions concerning the boxes that he is sending; says that the women have been admirably responsive and the hospitals are almost perfectly supplied; says that they have had 5000 sick and wounded since August 15; lists supplies they still need; explains the hospital system and praises the Ladies' Union Aid Society; discusses the removal of General Fremont; says that Missouri is and will remain in the Union; and expresses admiration for General Halleck. Transcription: [in pencil] Letter to James Freeman Clark St. Louis Nov. 14. 1861 Dear James. The boxes will undoubtedly arri
Asks for instructions concerning the boxes that he is sending; says that the women have been admirably responsive and the hospitals are almost perfectly supplied; says that they have had 5000 sick and wounded since August 15; lists supplies they still need; explains the hospital system and praises the Ladies' Union Aid Society; discusses the removal of General Fremont; says that Missouri is and will remain in the Union; and expresses admiration for General Halleck. Transcription: [in pencil] Letter to James Freeman Clark St. Louis Nov. 14. 1861 Dear James. The boxes will undoubtedly arrive in a few days. Are we to understand that they are specifically & absolutely for Dr Dickenson, whether his hospital needs the articles or not? Our custom is to receive every thing at office of the Sany Comm, and distribute to the several Hospitals as needed, ? to Benton Barracks Post. Hospital among the rest. All new articles are marked ?ǣWestn Sany Comm, ? and account kept, &c in proper form. But if your intention was to send the boxes unopened to Dr. D., it shall be done: or we will open, mark, pass thro our office, and send the whole to him: or we will treat them in our ordinary course, and keep him supplied as heretofore. Please write & say which; ? your answer will reach us two or three days after the boxes. The response from the N. E. women is has been admirable: ? our hospitals are getting to be perfectly supplied. Not less than 40 boxes are now in transition. But that the demand has been great & will be, you may see, for since Aug we have had, in all, 5000 sick & wounded in the St Louis Hospitals, & we now have nearly 2000 in them. The chief demand is for slippers, socks, woolen under-shirts, canton-flannel [written along left margin] W. G. E. or woolen drawers, and blankets. Our hospitals here are in excellent condition, and there is now a regular system established: as follows. 1. On the principal R. Roads [Rail Roads], hospital cars run back & forth daily,
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