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Re: Deaths at First Louisiana Hospital Charleston

Joanne:

I don't recall seeing one other than the one I posted. I am sure that the adjutant or some other person at the hospital sent in reports to the papers, but apparently they weren't picked up for publication. By the end of 1864 paper was in such short supply that the Charleston Daily Courier was reduced to a two page sheet. As you know the Anderson Intelligencer and the Keowee Courier (which up until 1867 or so, was still published at Pickens), both ceased publication for the war in 1861. So it makes it real tough, f not impossible, to find obituaries for people who died during that time. I frankly do not know what they did about publication of legal advertisements such as probate notices in areas where the newspapters had ceased to publish.

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