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Re: help me find Logan Hospital? (Va.?)

Could that have been Liggon/Ligon Hospital? That is an alternate name for General Hospital #23 in Richmond, Virginia.

General Hospital #23
Also called: Ligon’s Factory Hospital, Liggon Factory Hospital, Ligion Factory Hospital. Formerly tobacco factory of John L. Ligon. Opened 31 May 1862. Used sometimes as Union Prison hospital. Was still open in fall-1864. Employees 45. Location: southeast corner of 25th and Main Streets.

NPS CWS&SS shows:

G.G. Lumsden
Regiment Name Capt. Ellett's Co. Virginia Light Artillery. (Crenshaw Battery.)
Side Confederate
Company
Soldier's Rank_In Private
Soldier's Rank_Out Private
Film Number M382 roll 35

C.L. Lumsden
Regiment Name Capt. Ellett's Co. Virginia Light Artillery. (Crenshaw Battery.)
Side Confederate
Company
Soldier's Rank_In Private
Soldier's Rank_Out Private
Film Number M382 roll 35

H.C. Lumsden
Regiment Name Capt. Ellett's Co. Virginia Light Artillery. (Crenshaw Battery.)
Side Confederate
Company
Soldier's Rank_In Private
Soldier's Rank_Out Private
Film Number M382 roll 35

Capt Thomas Ellet's Co Va Light Artillery
Crenshaw's Battery; formerly Capt William Crenshaw's Co Va Light Artillery; enlisted March 14, 1862 for three (3) years or the war; disbanded April 9, 1865.
It was known as Crenshaw's Battery after Capt Crenshaw's resignation; served in Walker's and Pegrams' Battalions, Reserve Arty.
Captains: William Graves Crenshaw (resigned April 15, 1863), Thomas Ellet (to Capt November 2, 1863, to rank from April 15, 1863).
A Guide toVirginia Military Organizations, 1861-1865 by Lee A. Wallace, Jr.

Virginia Richmond "Crenshaw" Artillery Battery
Organized in Richmond for three (3) years or the war on March 14, 1862. Armed at that date with two 10-lb Parrotts, two 12-lb Howitzers and two 6-lb smoothbores
From July 1, 1863 to December 28, 1864, armed with four 12-lb Napoleons
Disbanded on April 9, 1865
Arty Battn, A.P.Hill's Div, ANV (June 1862)
Arty Battn, A.P.Hill's Div, 1st Corps, ANV (June-July 1862)
J.R.Anderson's Brigade, A.P. Hill's Div, 1st Corps, ANV, (July 1862)
Arty Battn, A.P.Hill's Div, 2nd Corps, ANV (Aug 1862-May 1863)
Pegram's Batt'n, Reserve Arty, 3rd Corps, ANV (May-July 1863)
Pegram's Batt'n, Arty, 3rd Corps, ANV (July 1863-April 1865)

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