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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), History of Chimborazo hospital, C. S. A. From the News leader, January 7, 1909. (search)
charge of several wards or buildings, and subject to surgeons of divisions, and all subject to Surgeon James B. McCaw, in charge of executive head. With natural drainage, the best conceivable on the east, south and west; good water supply; five large ice houses; Russian bath house; cleanliness and excellent system of removal of wastes, the best treatment, comforts and result in a military hospital in times of war were secured. In 1861 there was on what is now known as Chimborazo Park or Hill one house, owned by a Richard Laughton, and a small office building. For the purpose of making the hospital an independent institution, the secretary of war made Chimborazo hospital an army post, and Dr. McCaw was made commandant; an officer and thirty men were stationed there, and everything conducted selon de regles. As the commandant, Surgeon McCaw was not in the regular army of the Confederacy, the surgeon-general said: I do not know what name to give the hospital or its chief. Not
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.22 (search)
as practically a trackless forest, but now there are farms scattered through it, and it is only in occasional localities that primeval nature is seen. The demand for railroad ties have been the principal cause of the cutting down of the enormous trees that were once the pride of the Wilderness. A simple monument to Lee. Across the fields on each side of the turnpike Longstreet's men came, after an all-night march to relieve A. P. Hill. There is Tapp's field, said Major Biscoe. I was in Hill's Division, and we had fought through the 5th of May. I was lying down in that field on the morning of the 6th, when Longstreet's men came rushing over us on their way to meet the Union Army. As I came along with Longstreet, said Mr. Hume, the woods were all on fire. It was an awful sight. Both the dead and wounded were being burned. The woods were full of bodies. Yes, said Captain Quinn, we were charged with setting the woods on fire, but we did not do it. We tried hard to extingui