August 1.—We have a number of patients very sick, and we are kept very busy, as the two girls we brought with us from Chattanooga are both ill, and I suppose will have to leave. Two of our cooks are also down. I asked Dr. A. to let some of the men come and assist in the kitchen, but he refused, saying that such work was degrading to them.
The surgeons have been compelled to find boarding-houses outside of the hospital. Dr. A. found it was against the regulations for them to board in the hospitals; so we have gone back to the plan of having our own table.
