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(Exceprts from UT-Tyler Digital Archives)
NATCHEZ DAILY COURIER, December 14, 1861, p. 1, c. 1
To Ladies of Adams County!
Can we withstand such an Appeal?
Can we withstand such an Appeal?
Nashville, Dec. 4, 1861.
My Dear Young Friend--I write to you to get your interest in sending us Hospital supplies. I know how much you have done, and I know by experience that cotton planters have no money; but you have shirts, drawers, towels and handkerchiefs, and a thousand things that will be very acceptable. At first, we thought we would only appeal to the people of Tennessee, but since Nashville has been made the great Hospital, we will be forced to ask aid of our friends in the other States. We have sick men here from Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. In our Hospital there are at least 2000 sick; measles and the consequences and typhoid fever are the prevailing diseases.
You would not know my beautiful drawing rooms--mirrors and chandeliers in bags, furniture and carpets removed to the garret, and ten sick men lying there--four hovering between life and death.
I have slept on a sofa in my library for four nights, with an alarm clock at my head to wake me every two hours. Many other houses in the city are in the same situation."
The above is an extract from a letter, received by a lady in this county, from one of the Vice Presidents of the Soldiers' Relief Society of Nashville, Tenn. The recipient of this letter publishes it, hoping that the already liberal women of Adams county will send all the Hospital stores, such as mattresses, comforts, sheeting, pillows, whiskey, brandy, sage, &c., they can spare, to care of Mr. Jas. Carradine, Main street. There they will be packed and sent by the first of January, to Nashville, in the name of the Ladies of Adams county. Let us do all we can for our poor distressed soldiers--maybe we will be but helping our own.
You would not know my beautiful drawing rooms--mirrors and chandeliers in bags, furniture and carpets removed to the garret, and ten sick men lying there--four hovering between life and death.
I have slept on a sofa in my library for four nights, with an alarm clock at my head to wake me every two hours. Many other houses in the city are in the same situation."
The above is an extract from a letter, received by a lady in this county, from one of the Vice Presidents of the Soldiers' Relief Society of Nashville, Tenn. The recipient of this letter publishes it, hoping that the already liberal women of Adams county will send all the Hospital stores, such as mattresses, comforts, sheeting, pillows, whiskey, brandy, sage, &c., they can spare, to care of Mr. Jas. Carradine, Main street. There they will be packed and sent by the first of January, to Nashville, in the name of the Ladies of Adams county. Let us do all we can for our poor distressed soldiers--maybe we will be but helping our own.
NATCHEZ DAILY COURIER, December 17, 1861, p. 1, c. 1
Help One Another. Every one connected with the printing business is laboring under the disagreeable trouble of procuring a sufficiency of paper. Clean rags are scarce for the supply of paper-mills. Now our planters can help us out, if they will but save and bale their refuse cotton. We understand the paper-mills will pay three cts. per pound for this article, and that a market can be found at B. S. Tappan's, Vicksburg, Miss. at the same price. Let our planters consider this matter, and help us to obtain more paper and of larger size and better quality.
Help One Another. Every one connected with the printing business is laboring under the disagreeable trouble of procuring a sufficiency of paper. Clean rags are scarce for the supply of paper-mills. Now our planters can help us out, if they will but save and bale their refuse cotton. We understand the paper-mills will pay three cts. per pound for this article, and that a market can be found at B. S. Tappan's, Vicksburg, Miss. at the same price. Let our planters consider this matter, and help us to obtain more paper and of larger size and better quality.
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