- Any help on grave lists for Chimbarazo Hospital
Oakwood Cemetery was the final resting place of soldiers who died in treatment at Chimborazo Hospital, a massive facility on Church Hill, along with casualties from several battles fought in the Richmond area By the end of the war, the Confederate section of the cemetery covered about 7 5 acres and contained around 17,000 burials
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In comparison, Confederate soldiers who were patients at Chimborazo, the Confederacy's military hospital in Richmond, experienced a death rate of 37% when stricken by pneumonia and 22% when infected by smallpox
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However, the Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond has on hand Pvt James S Ferguson, listed under "Co B, 16th Georgia" (the unit from which he was assigned to the 3rd Battalion) that he was admitted to Chimborazo on June 22, 1863 for diarrhea, and he remained there until transferred to Camp Winder on August 18, 1863
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Chimborazo was more of a general convalescent hospital, so I think there were actual buildings etc Sheridan's Winchester hospital was a field hospital, so the patient housing was pretty much all tents
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Wounded by "concussion from shell" on July 3, he was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond on July 11 and returned to duty on July 24 (Compiled service records, Fold3)
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13 Pvt Robert R Horton - hand Evacuated and admitted at Chimborazo July 17, 1863 with middle finger injury 14 Pvt George J Miles - leg Also reported as "C J Miles" but carded records confirm G J Miles was wounded; evacuated; and admitted at Chimborazo July 18, 1863 with contused left leg wound 15 Pvt Joseph H Roberts - shoulder
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:grant::lee: Hi To All Members, l just would like some opinions please on my thread The late Shelby Foote made a comment on Ken Burn's The Civil War Dvd set, while talking about the infantry tactics used in the Civil War He said that there were practically no bayonet wounds in the Civil
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Sent to Chimborazo Hospital, after recovering from his wound he was sent home on wounded furlough, but instead of going back to Pike County, Mississippi, where he was living at the time he enlisted, Martin went to Baton Rouge, where he took the oath of Allegiance to the United States
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