As Alan has noted, Pineville is not the site of a hospital...in fact, it is not the site of much these days but it was a thriving village in the pre-war years and succumbed to the railroad bypassing the area. The Monroe Guards, later Co. C, 5th Alabama Infantry commanded by Giles Goode and later Thomas Mercer Riley was first formed at Pineville. During the war, three or four Federal troops attempting to reach Pensacola were captured hiding in a barn at Pineville. Legend has it that they escaped from the captors at Selma. In the 1870s, John Wesley Hardin spent time in the area on the lam from authorities or so the legend goes.