Among the facts of Winder Hospital Records brought to light, according to James H. Brewer, "perhaps none was more surprising than the evidence that a company of Negro soldiers from Winder and Jackson Hospitals was actually engaged in combat during the defense of Richmond in March 1865." Winder and Jackson Hospitals were two of dozens of hospitals and hospital facilities in Richmond. Robert W. Waitt, Jr., found Winder and Jackson troops under the command of an individual named Scott, who in March 1865:

Ordered my battalion from the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th divisions of Jackson Hospital to the front on Saturday night...My men acted with the utmost promptness and good will. I had the pleasure in turning over to Dr. Major Chambliss a portion of my Negro company to be attached to his command. Allow me to state, Sir, that they behaved in an extraordinary suitable manner.

The Confederate Negro, by James H. Brewer, 1969