Thanksgiving Day Celebration at Central Park Hospital

From a letter to the editor.  “To the Editor of the New-York Times.  You will expect some account of the festivities that took place at the Central Park Hospital on our glorious Thanksgiving Day.  At the Hospital there are about 400 soldiers convalescing from fevers and wounds, who were bountifully entertained by the Rose Hill Ladies’ Soldiers’ Relief Association. . . . The Thanksgiving dinner over, the dessert was garnished with music by the Quartette Club attached to the Association, the whole audience joining in the ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ and other National airs.  American flags tastefully decorated the walls and windows of the spacious dining hall, and a large rebel flag hung in ‘distress,’ as if paling before the Stars and Stripes.”