2020-09 Putnal
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War-date Confederate surgeon Autograph Letter Signed "Randal M. Lytle Surg. in Charge" 3pp. quarto, March 15, 1865, Direction Hospital, Griffin, Georgia, addressed to Surge R.C. Foster "In charge Hospitals." and reads in part: "...As Asst Surg Provisional Army Confederate States, and Medical Officer in charge of Camp Direction at Chattanooga, Tenn., I was ordered on the 14th day of November 1862, by Surg. S.H. Stout, in charge of Hospitals at that post, to establish in tents a hospital for the accommodation of the sick of the Camp. On the 11th of July 1863, I received the appointment of Surg, and was reassigned to duty in Direction Hospital...Commanding now a capacity for two hundred and fifty patients, with a full supply of hospital property, and an accommodation of hospital fund, this hospital emerged from its former obscurity and became one of the General Hospitals of the Department....On the 20th September 1864, by order of Medical Director of Hospitals, I removed this Hospital from this post to Albany, Ga....The Hospital was removed from Meridian, Miss February 13, 1865...Having had no epidemic to contend with since the organization of the Hospital, I have nothing more of historic interest to report..." Surgeon Lytle also includes dozens of names of surgeons who served at the various posts of Camp Direction. Very good condition.
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