#CIVIL WAR HOSPITAL RECORDS ARCHIVE#
Some additional material relating to the patients and physicians at Clarysville is available in print form in the Clarysville Hospital Archive and Manuscript (A&M) Collection at the West Virginia & Regional History Center (WVRHC). They may also provide family and personal information of interest to genealogy researchers. They reveal the kinds of injuries and ailments suffered by soldiers and document medical practices during the Civil War. The cards contain the name, age, place of birth, marital status, residence, address of wife or nearest relative, rank, regiment, date admitted into hospital, diagnosis, where or how wounded, nature of missile or weapon, treatment, and result (with date). West served as the attending physician for the Clarysville patients documented in these cards which span from 1864 to 1865. As the name indicates, the cards would have been placed bedside to identify patients. Doctors did not understand infection, and did little to prevent it. General Hospital located at Clarysville, Maryland during the American Civil War. The state of medical knowledge at the time of the Civil War was extremely primitive. The Clarysville Hospital Digital Collection features scanned images of hundreds of hospital bed cards from the U.S. The Clarysville Civil War Hospital Digital Collection
įinally, Civil War Richmond and the American Civil War Museum in the Richmond area may be able to assist you with your research. See their Civil War Medicine research guide.
The Library of Virginia's collections include a variety of different types of records that pertain to those who were involved with the Confederacy’s medical system, including the papers of surgeons and other medical personnel, hospital registers, personal papers of soldiers who were hospitalized or of their family and friends, and unit records that include medical information on individual soldiers. We suggest that you also contact the Library of Virginia. We apologize for this inconvenience and appreciate your understanding and patience. As a result of this re-prioritization of activities, you may experience a delay in receiving an initial acknowledgement as well as a substantive response to your reference request from RDT1. While the traditional focus has often been about the battles, often overlooked is the daily life in hospitals where soldiers spent weeks, and. The vast majority of these men were treated in hospitals scattered throughout both sections of the country.
ĭue to the COVID-19 pandemic and pursuant to guidance received from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), NARA has adjusted its normal operations to balance the need of completing its mission-critical work while also adhering to the recommended social distancing for the safety of NARA staff. Over the course of the Civil War, at least 600,000 soldiers died from wounds or sickness. For access to these non- digitized records, please contact the National Archives at Washington, DC - Textual Reference (RDTI) via email at.
We also located Confederate Medical Records of General Hospital #4, General Hospital #21, and Chimborazo Hospital at Richmond and Confederate Medical Records that includes receipts, invoices, and requisitions for medicines and other hospital stores returns of medical property morning reports reports of sick and wounded returns of medical officers accounts and some correspondence. Some of these records have been digitized and may be viewed online using the Catalog.
#CIVIL WAR HOSPITAL RECORDS SERIES#
We searched the National Archives Catalog and located a series titled Record Books of Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Offices of the Confederate Government in the War Department Collection of Confederate Records (Record Group 109) that includes records of Confederate hospitals in Richmond, Virginia. Thank you for posting your request on History Hub!
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