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Translation of the order from Surgeon General William H. Gardner dismissing Abby from her position as Lady Superintendent of Hammond General Hospital. Also outlines new rules for the female nurses at the hospital.

Handwritten copies of three separate letters regarding the dismissal of the Protestant nurses from Hammond General Hospital. Dr. Anthony Heger served as Medical Director of the hospital at Point Lookout, Maryland.

Sent by A.G.H. Content list of a shipment of supplies sent to Abby Hopper Gibbons for the relief of wounded soldiers. List includes food, clothes, and games for the soldiers. Sent to Point Lookout, Maryland, where Abby worked as an army nurse during the Civil War.

The 6th page of the letter has been pasted over and some of the contents are obscured. Statement of facts in reply to the report of Col. Robert S. Rodgers, in an ongoing correspondence concerning allegations Abby Hopper Gibbons made concerning the mistreatment of African Americans by military personnel. She claims the existence of an operation carried out by members of the military to lure Contraband slaves (a term used for fugitive slaves who had escaped to Union lines) outside the lines of Point Lookout, leading to their recapture. Challenges the stories surrounding the circumstances of the departure of a man named Sandy Dorsey and a 14-year-old girl named Charlotte Bert [sp] or Bennet from Point Lookout. Gibbons refutes the contents of the affidavits presented by Col. Rodgers as contrary evidence. Gibbons also alleges that the Contraband slaves have been receiving half of the rations mandated by the government. Mentions the accusations of theft against an African American man named Moses Thompson and his subsequent punishment. Denies allegations made by Col. Rodgers that she has interfered with military business or abused officers.

Short letter asking her daughter Lucy to look after the sick son of a fellow nurse until his mother can arrive.

Has sent supplies via Sarah Blunt to support Gibbons's work as a nurse at an army hospital.

List of supplies sent to Abby Hopper Gibbons. Sent to Point Lookout, Maryland, where Abby worked as an army nurse during the Civil War.

Henry Hayes Lockwood was a Brigadier General during the Civil War. Thanks her for her kindness and praises her philanthropic work.