I think that, when we are endeavoring to raise soldiers and to instruct them, it is bad policy to keep them at hospitals as attendants and nurses.
I send you Dr.Derby's acknowledgment that he gave the leave of absence of which he was charged.

I have placed him in arrest, in obedience to General Halleck's orders, but he remains in charge of the Overton Hospital, which is not full of patients.
The State Hospital also is not full, and I cannot imagine what Dr.
Derby wants with the Female Academy on Vance Street.

I will see him again, and now that he is the chief at Overton Hospital, I think he will not want the academy.

Still, if he does, under your orders I will cause it to be vacated by the children and Sisters of Mercy.

They have just advertised for more scholars, and will be sadly disappointed.