| Quartermaster General's Department |
| Richmond, April 4th 1863 |
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| Dr. J. P. Moore |
| Surgeon General C. S. A. |
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| Sir, |
| The number of sick now in the Military Hospitals of
this city is, I am informed, still very great, rendering necessary
issues of large quantities of fuel, forage, and straw. |
| As you are aware, the want of transportation occasions
much difficulty in obtaining a sufficient supply of fuel, and forage at
this post, and it has been found necessary to reduce, by every
practicable means, the consumption of these articles. As a further means
of reduction, I venture to suggest, for your consideration, the
propriety of removing most of the patients now in Richmond, to Danville,
or such other points as may be selected, where their necessities can be
more readily supplied. |
| Apart from the relief which will be afforded here, I
beg to make the additional suggestion, that the present is a favorable
time to effect such removal, and that it may be expedient for other
reasons, to anticipate now, a necessity that may possibly arise
hereafter. |
| A. C. Myers, Q. M. Genl |
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