Federal Military Hospitals in Nashville, May and June, 1863
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Posted Hospital
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Private Milton Hare, 8th Indiana Cavalry
Pvt Hare writes his mother on October 2, 1864 of being wounded in the leg.
Source: transcript and images Heritage Auction. LOT #47065
“I am in they hospitle at Nashville no. 19 but I don’t expect to stay thare very much longer if I can help it. I will tell you what made mey come here was one of they rebs bullets skelped my thie just deep enough to make it feele good. Thay shot my horse in they foot furst and he rard up and then thay shot mey through they [illegible] and it went a had through him and that put a stop to his going and I got out of thare in a purty big hurey…it was last Tuesday morning is when it camensed and lasted all day until late in they evening and in they morning they rebs had got back about five miles and I cold not tell you where thay are now…I cant tell you how meney was killed and wonded but it don’t know.”
He continues to assuage his mother’s fears on October 12, 1864, writing: “I don’t whant you to bey oneasy about mey for I will bey all wright in about a month I think…I have all they care taken on my leg that is needed…”
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12 Thursday Mar 2020
Posted Cover envelope, Hospital
in26 Wednesday Feb 2020
Posted Hospital #5 - State Armory
in#5 – State Armory & Gun Factory, upper end of Front St [1st Ave N]
21 Friday Feb 2020
Posted Medical, Period building, Post Hospital
inCherry Street Baptist Church, on the corner of then Elm and Cherry Streets, was used as the post hospital. It was 58×92 feet, housing 125 beds. Like most other period churches in Nashville during the Civil War, this facility was used as military hospital to treat hundreds of soldiers during the war. A National Archives image.
21 Friday Feb 2020
#2 – University Building, South Market St [2nd Ave S] on College Hill. 300 beds. Formerly the Western Military Institute.
Nurse Margaret Mackey served in Hospital #2 from 10 June 1863 until July 1865. She says Major Lyon was in charge during her first year until he was sent to a field hospital at the front. Lyon was replaced by Major Herbert. (Our Army Nurses, 1895. Holland).
Original letters and images related to the hospital:
Dr. Josiah Reed, 94th Ohio Inf., Letters & docs, surgeon and druggist [read].
Dr. Josiah Reed enlisted as a private on September 24, 1862 and served in the 94th OH Inf. Co. I. After being wounded at the Battle of Stones River, his superiors put him on light duty in the dispensary at Hospital No. 2 near Nashville where he began his career in medicine. He worked in the hospital as needed including as a druggist,
Our principal druggist having been taken away by his Colonel, wrote Reed, the principal duties of this department has devolved upon me, and to one not regularly brought up a druggist, it involves no trifling responsibilities My duties here are more constant then they would be in the field, but they are not attended with so many hardships and so much exposure.
Reed remained at the hospital for two and a half years and committed himself to studying during the odd hours of the day and attending medical lectures at the University of Nashville. He wrote to Lizzie,
I am going to be an M.D. because I am attending a few lectures. There is too much to be learned for me to think of such a thing while in the service. I only expect to improve my opportunities to the best advantage
(Gen Hospt. No. 2 Nashville, May 14, 1863)
Image source: Cities Under the Gun.
19 Wednesday Feb 2020
Hospital No. 16 on South College Street served African-American soldiers and contrabands 375 beds. It measured 82×105 feet. Led by J.S. Giltner.
14 Friday Feb 2020
#19 – Morris and Stratton’s Building, No 14 North Market Street [2nd Ave N], near the corner of Clark Street. 629 beds. Led by W.H. Thorne.
Morris and Stratton were wholesale grocers in Nashville. This building sat at 14 Market Street, near Clark Street, measuring 45×210 feet. One source says it contained 300 beds while another states 629 beds.
#19 The French Building, corner of Clark and Market streets, the brick building was 46×108 feet. It was used in conjunction with Hospital #19.
11 Tuesday Feb 2020