Savannah Republican
Georgia
May 20, 1861
The Service of Miss Dorothea L. Dix
Accepted by the U.S. War Department.
The following order shows that the services of Miss Dix have been accepted by the War Department for the purpose of supplying nurses and comforts for the sick and wounded soldiers:
War Department, Military Hospital.
Be it known to all whom it may concern, that the free services of Miss D. L. Dix are accepted by the War Department, and that she will give at all times all necessary aid in organizing military hospitals for the care of all sick or wounded soldiers, aiding the chief surgeons, by supplying nurses and substantial means for the comfort and relief of the suffering. Also, that she is fully authorized to receive, control and disburse special supplies, bestowed by individuals or associations, for the comfort of their friends or the citizen-soldiers from all parts of the United States.
Given under the seal of the War Department this twenty-third day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty one, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-fifth.
[Seal.]
Simon Cameron, Sec’ry of War.