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Re: Seminary Hospital, Hagerstown, MD

Dewey, I did happen across a reference to a seminary in Hagerstown in a manuscript by Capt. Fritsch of the 68th New York. He writes of a Female Seminary where the men danced with the girls, to the "very amusing disgust and horror of the old lady principal." Kent Masterson Brown's book, Retreat from Gettysburg does mention that in the weeks after the battle the sick and wounded from the hospitals in Hagerstown were emptied and taken to the Female Seminary, which is located on the present site of the Hagerstown Hospital. Now it so happens that a record of the wounded and sick in Hagerstown was compiled and published in Southern Historical Society Papers, vol. 27, pp. 241-251 (1899 version, which has been reprinted). Well, on p. 243, J. J. Edwards, 55th North Carolina appears as having been wounded on 14 July, and died on 9 August. The date explains it; Edwards was likely wounded in a skirmish at Falling Waters on that date, and not at Gettysburg two weeks earlier. Jordan's roster only reports that he was wounded and captured, and was at the Hagerstown Seminary. Tom

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