Raynors HCA 2017-12
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A great war-date Confederate medical related letter, 1p. 4to., written by Surgeon Alexander Hunter, Cassville, Ga., Aug. 29, 1863 to Army of Tennessee Medical Director Samuel H. Stout, reading, in part: "Enclosed you will find Morning Report. I have reported 120 empty beds, but am not ready to receive patients. The kitchens have to be built and the lumber has to be hauled 7 or 8 miles. We have no nails. Qr. Ms. at Kingston has worries. Where is Gribble? How can we obtain nails? Please send me a Commissary and Quarter Master. I have had to hire wagons to draw the hospital materials from Depot. I have established a hospital in the Male College in charge of Dr. [Miles H.] Nash which we propose to call the "Flewellan Hospital."…the Med. Dir. [Edward A. Flewellen placed in charge of Andersonville's Military Prison's hospital] will not be ashamed of his namesake. The building is large and well suited for the purpose. Nash wants two Asst. Surg'ns-please send energetic men-also 15 nurses. I have put Asst. Surg'n. China at Cass. surge. in charge of the ward of Newsom Hospital whi[ch] I have placed there as a reception hospital, the Female college not giving me space nor the compliment of beds…A. Hunter, Surg. in chg." Found among the military letters of famed Confederate Medical Inspector Major Samuel Hollingsworth Stout (1822-1903) whose military papers were published in Confederate Hospitals on the Move: Samuel H. Stout and the Army of Tennessee, University of South Carolina Press,1994. Irregular right margin with negligible loss to few words of text, else VG.
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