"Dr Gibbes is a bird of evil omen. Today he tells me eight of our men have died at the Charlottesville hospital. It seems sickness is more redoubtable in an army than the enemy's guns. There are 1100 there hors de combat, and virulent typhoid fever along with them. They want money, clothes, nurses.
So I am writing—right and left the letters fly, calling for help from the sister societies at home. The good and patriotic women at home are easily stirred to this work."
