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Re: Please help with unclear service record

My error, sorry. I mistook the location of Howard's Grove Hospital, originally thinking it was in Western Richmond adjacent to Hollywood. Rather it is in North Central closer to Oakwood.

Pleased to see you were able to find him listed there.

Information about Howard's Grove Hospital in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

The Grove was originally a popular Richmond picnic-recreation area. It was taken over by the Confederacy at the outbreak of the War as a drill and bivouac point for the first incoming troops to arrive in Richmond. Converted into a hospital area by the construction of buildings for ward and utility purposes and opened in June 1862. Occupied area now confined by the City streets of Mechanicsville Turnpike in the east, Coalter street in the west, Redd Street on the north, and Q Street (extended) on the south; and having an extension east of Mechanicsville Turnpike to 19th Street with T Street on the north and Fairmount Avenue on the south. An annex was located between 21st and 23rd Streets, T Street, and the ally south of Fairmount Avenue. Having a capacity of 659 in December of 1862. It was quickly expanded to over 1800. Employees averaged 85. A portion was set aside for the isolation of smallpox cases, both military and local civilians. It had its own laundry, bakery, storehouses, water supply, recreational facilities. Total of 62 buildings. Partially subsidized by the City of Richmond. Surgeons-in-chief (in order of their service): Dr. James Bolton, Dr. T. P. Temple, Dr. P. M. Palmer. Continued as Union Small pox Hospital after the City’s occupation. Named for the family (Howard) that originally owned the property. (From Confederate Military Hospitals in Richmond by Robert W. Waitt, Jr., Official Publication #22 Richmond Civil War Centennial committee, Richmond, Virginia 1964.) An undated Richmond City Directory from the Civil War years asserts that Alabama soldiers were assigned to the First Division of Howard's Grove, and Mississippi soldiers to the Second Division.

http://www.mdgorman.com/Hospitals/hospitals_map.htm

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