These records are an untapped resource. Very little if any of this stuff made it into the compiled service records. I looked at photocopies of some of the material that the Troup County Historical Society had obtained on the hospitals in and around LaGrange, Georgia. I allowed me to begin filling in the historical gap during the Atlanta Campaign. I desperately would like to work with these records but since they are not on microfilm it will take someone to go there and spend time with the records and there are a lot of them. Jack D. Welsh went through the records of Fairground Hospitals 1 & 2 when it was at Atlanta and then its subsequent moves to Vineville and then Opelika, Alabama and came up with "Two Confederate Hospitals and their Patients, Atlanta to Opelika." The book has an accompanying CD-Rom with what the hospital registries had, i.e. patient's name, unit, date of admission, diagnosis, date of discharge. Very useful and again, the information was not reflected in large part in the CSR's.

If someone wants to bankroll a historian I may be available after December 2012.

Respectfully,

Gerald D. Hodge, Jr.
M.A. Military History - Civil War Concentration
Research - Preservation
Historian: 39th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment