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Fannie A. Beers, Memories: a record of personal exeperience and adventure during four years of war., Part I. (search)
n 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. The men were war, who were not discovered and bountifully fed shortly after their arrival. In this case waiter after waiter of food was sent in, first from the house of Mr. Yarborough and afterward by all the neighborhood. Hospital supplies having been ordered as soon as it was known the sick men were expected, all necessaries were soon a