From the Richmond Dispatch, 5/24/1862, p. 3, c. 2
LOUISIANA HOSPITAL,
Richmond, May 23, 1862.
OUT-PATIENTS of this Hospital are required to report at this Hospital within 24 hours, either in person or through some regular practitioner of medicine, military or civil. Failing in this, they will be advertised as deserters.
By order of Surgeon General.
JAS. V. COOK,
Ass't Surgeon in charge.
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