George, I'm finding Private James A. Pittman of Company I of the 3rd Mississippi Infantry in the hospital on three or four different occasions. The first two were in Confederate hospitals His first visit was due to chronic diarrhea on July 3, 1864 at the St. Mary's Hospital located in La Grange, Georgia and was returned to duty on July 7, 1864. Records also stated he was vaccinated for what I do not know and can only assume it may have been a small-pox vaccination. However remember I'm only assuming this was the reason for the vaccination.

His next visit to a Confederate hospital was due to vul. sclopet which is the Latin name for a gun-shot wound. vul sclopet was the abbreviation for Vulnus Scolpeticum. Confederate records stated he had been wounded severely at the Battle of Peachtree Creek and was on a list of patients at the Ocmulgee Hospital and admitted on July 22, 1864. The Ocmulgee Hospital was in the Macon, Georgia area about sixty miles south of Atlanta. It did say on his hospital records at Ocmulgee he was a resident of Marion County. The Confederate hospitals in the Atlanta area had been moved by Doctor Stout by late July of 1864 due to Sherman's Army.

From my prior experience there were many Confederates who had been sick or wounded and held behind at Pulaski, Tennessee during Hood's retreat after the Battle of Nashville. General Forrest would ambush the leading soldiers in Wilson's Cavalry just south of Pulaski at Anthony's Hill and chase them back to Pulaski. However upon Union occupation a day or two earlier the patients had been taken back to Union lines. Because of his transfer to the Nashville Hospital I am also assuming he had be wounded yet again during the Franklin/Franklin Campaigns.

His last hospital visit was at the United States Army Hospital number 1 at Nashville, Tennessee. Union hospital records noted he had been shot in the right thigh by a con. ball short for conical ball or a medical term for a minie ball. He would be released to the Union Provost Marshall and taken to the Military Prison at Louisville, Kentucky and then forwarded to Camp Chase.

It might be plausible he had been at a Union hospital at Camp Chase however there is no documentation to support this.