April 7, 1863, The Charleston Mercury
HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA AND FLA.,
I. IN CASE OF A BOMBARDMENT OF THE CITY OF Charleston, should any Hospital become untenable, Medical Officers in charge, and those unattached to Regiments, unless otherwise specially ordered, will repair forthwith to the temporary Hospital established four miles from the city, next adjoining the building known as the ‘Four Mile House,’ where they will convey all hospital property that can be removed, and with them attendants and nurses will report to the Surgeon in charge for duty.
II. Wounds will be dressed and operations will be performed, as far as possible, on the field, and patients will be made as comfortable as circumstances will admit for transportation to Hospitals in the interior.
III. Medical Inspectors are charged with the general supervision of the removal of the wounded by railroad to the Hospitals at Summerville and Columbia.
By command of General BEAUREGARD. April 63