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Contributions for the sick.

General Hospital, Yorktown,Va. August 2, 1861.
To the Editors of the Dispatch: Please permit me to return my thanks to the ladies of Murfreesboro', N. C., for their kindness in sending us, through Prof. Hogg. the sum of thirty-nine dollars and fifty cents, together with clothes &c., for the sick, of which I send you a list, accompanied by the names of subscribers, which you will oblige me by inserting in your paper:


List of money for Yorktown soldiers from ladies of Murfreesboro', N. C.

Mrs. W. N. H. Smith, $5; Mrs. Mary Beaman, $1; Miss Mattle Horn, $1; Mrs. Goodman Parker, 50 cents; Mrs. F. M. Capehart, 50 cents; Mrs. M. Grant, 25 cents; Mrs. W. Warren, 25 cents; Mrs. Sallie Day, 26 cents; Mrs. E. A. Hart, $1; Miss Imogen Hart, $1; Miss E. Hedgpeth, 50 cents; Mrs. H. T. Lassiter, $1; Mrs. B. Moors, $1; Mrs. L. T. Spiers, $3; Mrs. J. J. Yeates, $1; Mrs. J. Garting, 25 cents; Mrs. L. M. Cewper, $1; Mrs. E. M. Bishop, 50 cents; Mrs. W. B. Day, 50 cents; Mrs. B. Jester, $1; Mrs J. G. Wilson, 50 cents; Mrs. J. W. Holl, $1; Mrs. J. V. Lawrence, $1; Miss Nannie Hatchett, $1; Miss Ellen Lawrence, $1; Miss Mattle Lawrence, $1; Mrs. H. M. Smith, $1; Mr. T. P. Wynne, $1; Mrs. G. W. Nicholson, 25c; Mrs. J. W. Harrell, $1; Miss Georgia Montgomery, $1; Miss Maria Pearce, 50c; Miss Zenie Lassiter $1; Mrs. W. S. Shepaid, $1; Mrs. Alex'r Hogg, $1; Mrs. W. L. Hargrave, 25; Mr. J. B. Staughter, $1; Mrs. M. Harrison, 25; Miss Nannie Harrison, 25; Mrs. W. P. Beaman, $2; little Annie Beaman, $1; little Sallie Beaman, $1.


Articles for Yorktown Hospital Contributed by ladies of Murfreesboro', N. C.

Mrs. S. J. Wheeler, 2 sheets, 3 pillow cases, bundle of linen; Mrs. N. Rea, 1 quilt; Mrs. J. M. Trader, 1 counterpane; Mrs. J. V. Lawrence, 4 sheets, 4 pillow cases, 5 bottles cordials and jellies; Mrs. F. Johnson, 1 mattress; Mrs. M. M. Wise, 2 mattresses; Mrs. P. S. Williams, 2 pillows, 4 pillow cases, 2 sheets, 2 towels; Mrs. J. J. Yeats, 1 bottle blaskberry cordial; Mrs. W. P. Beaman, 2 sheets, 3 pillow cases, linen, 1 mattress; Mrs. R. S. Parker, 2 calico spreads; Mrs. J. W. Southeli, 2 sheets, 2 pillow cases, bundle linen; Miss Sally Futrell, 2 sheets, 3 pillow cases; Mr. J. J. Vaughan, 2 bottles port wine.

Very respectfully yours,

P. E. Hines,

Surgeon to the Hospital.

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