Content:
This manuscript is possibly an early draft of another manuscript held at the University of Texas-Austin, entitled "The
Army Hospitals." That manuscript was
used in the first paragraph of the article "The Great Army of the Sick," which was published in the
New York Times
on February 26,
1863. The contents of both these manuscripts contributed to "Feb. 23," published in
Memoranda During the War
(1875-1876) and "Patent-Office Hospital" published in
Specimen Days
in 1882 (later retained in
the
Complete Prose Works
,
published in 1892).
