It is my impression that the Taylor Hospital did not move around, except perhaps as circumstances at Alexandria and Pineville demanded. Again, I don't have good notes on this and my memory is somewhat hazy, but it may have been in operation in 1863; at least some hospital was in Pineville.

There is no single good source for records of the hospital, and there are not what I would consider complete records pertaining to its operation. As for the Jackson Barracks records, when I was lead archivist at Louisiana State Archives, I worked a deal with them to microfilm the majority of their Confederate documents (excluding those copied from the National Archives for the compilation of "Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands"). State Archives had a copy of those reels. I did a finding aid for the reels, and it was also published in "Louisiana History" in 1995. The collection contains a number of records pertaining to the 2nd Louisiana Cavalry during the last year of the war, such as lists of unarmed men and of men without horses. None of these records were used in the compilation of Booth's books.

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Art