| Summary: | In the letter Sanborn describes staffing, patients, illnesses, and conditions at the local military hospital. He mentions that several Alabamians are being treated there and observes that the facility is well-stocked but "badly managed": "It is not a good plan to have a matron that has relatives and friends all around her, for there is a great many things sent to the soldiers they never see. Then they have their favourites, things that is absolutely nescessary for the sick go for them they will tell me they have not got them I cannot have them, and perhaps by the time I get to my ward I will see a well man coming with the very article I had called for. So you see my hands are tied." A transcription is included. [Original spelling retained.]
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