{"id":13138,"date":"2021-11-19T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T07:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2021-07-07T12:13:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T17:13:27","slug":"and-spend-spend-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/and-spend-spend-indefinitely\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Stuart Woolsey writes to her sisters in D. C. about support for the hospital volunteers at home and sending money to them to “spend, spend indefinitely” for the sick and injured."},"content":{"rendered":"
Jane Stuart Woolsey to Georgeanna and Eliza.<\/em><\/address>\n

New York, November, 1861.<\/p>\n

Dear Girls:<\/em> I went to the provisional Hospital here to see if the volunteers wanted anything. Mrs. Darragh took me all over, and said she wanted woolen shirts and socks very much<\/em>. So I sent the requisition to the society and she will get all she wants there. . . . Mrs. D. also suggests slates for the men to scribble on, cypher on, do puzzles, etc.; thought they would be very nice, in which I agree. Perhaps the idea may be useful to you. . . . Do you remember Peck, the man all twisted with rheumatism? He is getting well, and is a great gourmand. They let him have anything he wants. While we were there he remarked sentimentally, \u201cI say, send we some more of that roast pig<\/em>, won\u2019t you.\u201d I shall adopt the New York volunteers to the mild extent of taking them some papers occasionally. . . . Mrs. Bennett, poor old soul, called yesterday to tell of the death of her son with typhoid dysentery in the camp, and, what with her grief and childish elation at having news to tell and being an object of sympathy, was most pathetically comic,\u2013 \u201cdead and gone! dear, dead and gone! and this is his picter that he sent home to his mar,\u201d was her greeting to everyone that came down stairs; \u201cand I hope you\u2019ll all be ready in time, my dears. It\u2019s bad enough to be left by the cars<\/em>, but worse not to be ready when you come to die.\u201d Her great desire seemed to be to see and thank a drummer boy, who in the last few days of her son\u2019s life walked a mile and a half every day to get him a canteen of spring water. He was consumed with thirst and could not drink the river water. . . . Do the surgeons know that you can have money at your disposal for delicacies, as well as clothes, etc.? Let them know it, if you have not, and spend, spend<\/em> indefinitely. I say to myself often, \u201cfifty or sixty thousand dollars would give quite a lift, why do I cumber the ground?\u201d So if you don\u2019t want to see me dead and the ducats in my coffin directed to the Sanitary Commission, say what I can do or send.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jane Stuart Woolsey to Georgeanna and Eliza. New York, November, 1861. Dear Girls: I went to the provisional Hospital here to see if the volunteers wanted anything. Mrs. Darragh took me all over, and said she wanted woolen shirts and socks very much. So I sent the requisition to the society and she will get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":69113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-letters-of-a-family-during-the-war-for-the-union"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Jane-Stewart-Woolsey.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}