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His record also shows that he was at Eufaula, on duty, during March 1865.

Info on various Eufaula Hospitals

P. DeLacy Baker was Surg. in Charge of Hospital for General Hospital, Eufaula, Alabama, as of Aug. 20, '64. Some La. soldiers were sent there after the Atlanta Campaign, such as Pvt Josiah W. Adams,. Co. G. 12th. La. Infantry, who was sent there after a wound in the foot on June 20, 1864. The wounding occurred near Atlanta.

The 1836 Tavern, Eufaula's oldest wooden building, served as an inn for Chattahoochee River travelers and a Confederate hospital before becoming a private residence. A photo of the tavern can be found on http://www.snowhill.com/~clr/pilg/pil.html. There is a historical marker there

Also, Eufaula Wayside Hospital was established in 1863 in the "Old Baily House".

And, Fendal Hall : Located at 917 W. Barbour St, used as a hospital for the Confederate wounded.

One Confederate hospital in Eufaula was a Rheumatic Hospital, with Dr. H.V. Miller being a Confederate Surgeon there.

In fact, practically the whole of the town can lay claim to having been a Confederate hospital, at one time. On April 29th, 1865, the scene in Eufaula was as follows (note the mention of Old Mrs. Bailey being in charge):

“It was like a hospital, for the upper floors of the stores were filled with ill and wounded soldiers. 'As far down as the bluff." The private homes were like hospitals ... the houses on the hill, on Eufaula and Randolph Streets. The old O'Harro house, a large hotel, was a hospital, and the two-story wooden court house was a separate ward for commissioned officers. Old Mrs. Bailey was in charge'.

The large wooden two-story house on the bluff, at the foot of Broad Street, was the ward for 'the blood-poison cases-the gangrenous cases' Extension sheds for the patients were erected on land running south from Broad. The silk and wounded had been sent to Eufaula from the Army of Tennessee and also the Army of Virginia and' those who had lived in the neighborhood before the War.

There was hardly a home where lint bandages were not being made the day that General Grierson marched in for the purposes of destruction and General Lucas was hurrying on to join him. Every day had found 'the women of Eufaula nursing the soldiers, sending their servants on foraging expeditions for eggs and chickens, and seeing to it that the surgeons and physicians were supplied with instrmunents, chloroform, morphine, quinine and such stores as were necessary. Dr. Hamilton M. Weedon, who was in charge of the hospital on the bluff, depended upon the efforts of the heroic women to supply him with a very excellent healing salve, so Mrs. Brown's account tells
us, made of alder pitch and blooms.”

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