Robert Sims
District hospital records
Thu Feb 22 13:58:54 2001


As I said in the other posting, I will have to dig through some files and it may take me as much as a week to ten days. The details were too numerous and the likelihood of my ancestor being in there seemed so low that I just recorded it or filed a note and forgot it.

Saying that, I only remember it was a private paper collection of a doctor in the medical district (?) of the region, something like the southern region of the CSA medical corps. In his letters in boxes, and his papers are numerous, were some records that surprised me. They were some he obviously preserved from burning or for some other reason that were never put in government archives. I recall a pile of daily reports for some hospitals, and there were several, but it was not all of them and they were not continuous. There were some medical examining board records scattered and also some actual documents like I abstracted on this board for Pvt. Sims, stating the ailments and the furlough with an occasional detail. Most of the sheets only had numbers of patients and deaths with a hospital name on it. I sometimes rifle through volumes of this stuff hoping to get lucky but really enjoying the history.

Actually, I saw them years ago and just coming back into Civil War history and writing this reminds me of it. No name comes to mind, but I usually used reserach logs. I am in the prime of my business and travelling constantly, but I will not forget to look.

E-mail me if you want to talk more about technical details but memory is all I have on this right now. Also, they might be published by now-it seems so much is popping up. What district was it in and I will check that first when I find it and let you know if that fits?






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