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An Appeal for the wounded.

--The people of this city who took with so much seeming apathy upon the tremendous and heart-sickening events which are daily transpiring a few short miles from Richmond, must know that hundreds and even thousands of our incomparable patriot soldiers are laying wounded upon the battle-field, waiting in extreme agony for some pitying hands to remove them to a place of refuge from the tortures which they endure. Many valuable lives are lost for the want of timely aid, and many frames are racked with fever because no friendly hand will put a cooling cup of water to their parched lips. Knowing this, will not our citizens forego for a little while the seductions of pleasure or the profit of trade to go to the battle-field and render all the aid within their power to our suffering wounded? Let every avocation be for the time forgotten, and every ephemeral pleasure foregone, and let our citizens proceed en masse to the battle field to render all the assistance within their power.

The Daily Dispatch: July 4, 1862. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. July 4, 1862. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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