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Dr. Anthony Heger served as Medical Director of the hospital at Point Lookout, Maryland. Discusses the tying of Moses Thompson, an African American cook who was accused of stealing stores from the hospital, to a tree and her subsequent actions. Defends herself from Colonel Robert Smith Rodgers's charge that she overstepped her "proper sphere," by saying that "I have always held it to be wherever there is sickness and suffering in any form" and "I did not voluntarily step out of my 'proper sphere,' but by solicitation, and in answer to the calls of humanity which it is the business of my life to regard." Replaced the hospital's lost stores from her own personal property.
