John L. Southard, resident of Rockingham County, North Carolina, enlisted as a Private in Company D, 45th North Carolina Infantry (State Troops) on May 8, 1862 at Goldsboro, in April he was noted as sick in Danville Hospital, Richmond, Virginia, where he died on April 29, 1863, illness - Diarrhoea,

Iformation about General Hospital #28 in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

Also called: Danville Railroad hospital, Railroad Shops Hospital. Formerly shops building in railroad repair yards of Richmond and Danville Rail Road. Single-storied, brick, building. Had several natural springs nearby. Opened 10 July 1862. Surgical hospital with 416 beds. Dr. Abraham Schultz Miller, surgeon-in-charge. Location: Manchester, Virginia, on James River, just east of Richmond and Petersburg Rail Road bridge. Present site just east of south end of Manchester Bridge. (from Confederate Military Hospitals in Richmond by Robert W. Wait, Jr., Official Publication #22 Richmond Civil War Centennial committee, Richmond, Virginia 1964.)
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