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The Daily Dispatch: November 6, 1863., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 6, 1863., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
de. There were then in the institution nearly 300 patients. Those insane people were without medical supervision or support, and Gen. McClellan ordered Dr. Thompson, of Illinois, in charge, and all needful supplies were furnished. In June, Dr. Thompson was relieved by the appointment of Dr. G. F. Watson by Gov. Pierpont. This arrangement continued until the withdrawal of the United States army from in front of Richmond, when Dr. Watson retired. On the 20th of August, 1863, Assistant Surgeon P. Wager, of the 5th Pennsylvania cavalry, was placed in charge, and from that time the Asylum has been under the care of the Government. There were then in the Asylum 252 patients, and 42 officers, attendants, and servants. Since that period, 5 patients have been admitted and 61 have been discharged and died, leaving a population of 238. The matron and some other officers and their attendant, to their praise, remained faithful to their posts, and are discharging their duties witho
The Daily Dispatch: August 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], Escaped from Yankee Persecution. (search)
o have recently escaped from the Lunatic Asylum at Williamsburg, arrived in this city yesterday. From the severe treatment which they have received at the hands of the Yankee governors of that institution ever since their occupation of Williamsburg, they had some time since made up their minds to escape, and accordingly, under a pretext of going fishing one day last week, they kept on with the boat up to a convenient point, where they landed, and then pursued their journey by land to this place. One Dr. P. Wager is the surgeon of the Asylum, who is represented as a drunken, incompetent brute, while the general superintendence is given up to a number of Yankee negroes. The two gentlemen who have reached here represent that they were inmates of the Asylum for near two years; that they were about being discharged at the time the Yankees took possession, but that since that time they had been compelled to remain and undergo the most cruel treatment which it is possible to conceive of.