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Fannie A. Beers, Memories: a record of personal exeperience and adventure during four years of war., Part I. (search)
be there to prepare for their accommodation, to receive hospital supplies, and direct their arrangement, while I make purchases and attend to other matters. Come, holding out both hands towards me; no hireling can fill the place. Come, now, with me: we have no time to lose. I hesitated no longer, but entered the carriage. We were at once driven down-town, stopping to order cots, mattresses, etc., then to the corner ofโ€”โ€” and โ€”โ€” Streets, where stood an immense tobacco factory, owned by Messrs. Turpin & Yarborough. Arrived here, a pitiful sight met our eyes. Perhaps fifty sick men had arrived unexpectedly, and were sitting or lying about in every conceivable position expressive of feebleness, extreme illness, utter exhaustion. Mr. Yarborough, having given up the keys to Mrs. Hopkins, was impatiently pacing in and out among the prostrate men. Coming upon this scene, both Mrs. Hopkins and myself at once realized all that lay before us, and braced our nerves to meet the emergency.