...arn, shoes, etc., for provisions. This was only one of the hospital's many resources. At the close of the war, the Confederate government owed the hospital three hundred thousand dollars, which Mr. Memminger , secretary of Confederate States treasury, agreed to pay in gold on the 29th of March, and on the 3rd of April the city of Richmond was surrendered. Alas! it was not paid. I now call your speci...