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Although records were kept of patients, aliments, dates in and out, deaths, etc. You must be aware that only those
which survived and recorded by War Department clerks ca 1890-1900 are available today.

Much of the Confederate archives were lost during the evacuation and burning of Richmond in April, 1865.

An example is the recovery of company bi-monthly muster rolls. Copies were forwarded to Richmond regularly.

My ggrandfather's 43rd Tennessee Infantry muster records do not exist after March, 1864, though they existed as a unit until
May 1865 and held bi-monthly musters for pay purposes. And then only 7 of the 10 companies reporting March 64'. This is
representative of other regimental records.

In the case of Knoxville hospitals, no records exist at all. For the Chattanooga Foard Hospital, only a register of patients, Nov. 2, 1861
to March 15, 1863 exist in a repository. For the Overton General Hospital, Memphis, only a register of deaths for the period March 3-31, 1862
exist.

Unfortunately, enormous holes exist in available records.

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