Major-General Wright to Wright, November 7, 1862

General WRIGHT:

The attention of the War Department has been called to the complaint that the Asylum for the Blind, at Louisville, has been taken for hospital purposes, while the Marine Hospital and homes of secessionists, in the rebel service, can be used for that purpose. This must be imme:

diately corrected. H. W. HALLECK, General-in-Chief. ({Inclosure No. 3.]

SPECIAL ORDERS, ) HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE Ohio, No. 111. } Cincinnati, Ohio, November 12, 1862. * * * * * * * VII. The quartermaster’s department will provide the necessary and suitable hospital accommodations in Cincinnati, and elsewhere in the department, on, the requisition of the medical director of the department. No buildings, however, will be taken possession of, or alterations thereon made, without the consent of the owners, unless they are known to be disloyal citizens. These orders will not be construed to apply to the erection of hospitals, plans for which must be submitted in due season, for the action of the Surgeon-General of the Army.

By order of Major-General Wright: