From Eleanor’s Caldwell Private Journal
Everett House, Richmond
March 8, 1862
Late Evening

By nine, the ward has settled into its evening rhythm. Most severe cases receive their sunset doses of iron tonic between seven and eight o’clock, a schedule we have found reduces overnight disturbances. I completed those rounds an hour ago, administering medicine to twelve patients in rapid succession. Henderson sleeps fitfully tonight, his fever diminished somewhat by today’s treatments. Morrison accepts...