From the Richmond Examiner, 8/4/1862, p. 2, c. 4

“M. S.” ON THE CAP. – We have in the Louisiana Hospital, in this city, a good example of what order, system, intelligent industry, can effect for the good of the service. Everything at this establishment is under the surveillance of the chief surgeon’s (Dr. F. Formento) eyes; that the soldiers confined to his care receive the treatment to which they are entitled, and that provisions and delicacies are neither wasted nor appropriated to any use but that of the suffering. The result is cleanliness, comfort, and the return to service of many good and gallant troops; both officers and men leave the hospital with regret. So much for merit. Until very recently the establishment has been cut off entirely from communication with its association in New Orleans, but a few days ago, through the energetic efforts of the chairman of the committee, sufficient funds were received to enable the hospital to be conducted on its previous footing. During last month 631 patients were treated, of whom the majority were wounded; among the latter, the mortality was of but 8 per cent, which, when the large number of serious cases and operations are considered, present a very satisfactory result.

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