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Britain, W. H., Private, Company C (Bienville Blues), 9th Louisiana Infantry, enlisted March 8, 1862 at Mt. Lebanon by Lt. J. C. Theus for the war, died at General Hospital No. 2, Lynchburg, Virginia May 13/14, 1862, Camp Fever, description: 20 year old Farmer, Single, born in Georgia, resident of Ringgold

M320: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Louisiana

Note, it is interesting that city bred soldiers were less susespitable to camp dieseases than farmers reared in the heathly rural areas.

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The National Archives, Washington, D. C., in Record Group 109, holds “Weekly reports of patients and attendants, General Hospitals Nos. 1-2, Camp Nicholls, Ladies Relief, Pratt, and Way Hospital at Lynchburg, 1862-65 (ch. VI, vol. 724)

These records may contain the dates he was a patient at the hospital.

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