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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)
thirty thousand to forty thousand patients. The percentage of deaths at Chimborazo was a fraction over nine per cent. Complete records were kept, and are still in existence in the office of the surgeon-general at Washington, D. C., upon which the name of every patient can be found when wanted, and the cause of his death. The organization of Chimborazo hospital was as follows: Surgeon James B. McCaw, commandant and medical director. First Division, Virginia—Surgeon P. F. Brown, of Accomac, Va. Second Division, Georgia—Surgeon Habersham, of Atlanta, Ga. Third Division, North Carolina—Surgeon E. Harvey Smith. Fourth Division, Alabama—Surgeon S. N. Davis. Fifth Division, South Carolina—Surgeon E. M. Seabrook, Charleston, S. C. The medical staff numbered, or averaged, about forty or forty-five in all. There was also a medical examining board, composed of the surgeons of divisions, to pass on questions of furloughs and discharges. The subjoined roster is not compl
The Daily Dispatch: October 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Burial cases. (search)
ound that city were fired on several times during the past week from both the Ohio and Kentucky side. Mr. Russell to be Relieved. The Montreal Pilot states that a gentleman has reached the United States who is to relieve Dr. Russell, the special correspondent of the London Times. Seizure of a Virginia vessel. The Baltimore Sun of the 17th says the schr. True American, at Light street wharf, having on board 700 bushels of sweet potatoes, alleged to have been brought from Accomac, Va., was seized in that city on Wednesday, by Deputy Marshal Williams. Gen. Shields. The New York Irish American states, positively, that Gen. Shields has not declined the commission of a Brigadier General, recently tendered him by President Lincoln: but that as soon as the intelligence of his appointment reaches him in Mexico where he has gone on private business, he will hasten to the seat of war, to devote himself with all his might to the duties of his new command. Stopping
The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Proceedings of the enemy on the Eastern Shore. (search)
hereby this people put themselves in hostility to the Federal Government; and whereas the responsibilities and duties of said functionaries were sought to be changed by an oath of allegiance to a pretended. Government in rebellion against the Federal Government; therefore, I, H. H. Lockwood, Brigadier-General commanding in said counties, do, by virtue of authority vested in me, authorize Judges, Magistrates, Sheriffs, &c., &c., to continue in office and discharge, &c., in accordance with the Constitution of the United States, the laws of Virginia, previous to the Ordinance of Secession, except so far as modified or changed by any subsequent act of the Legislature sitting in Western Virginia, and the laws passed by said Legislature subsequent to said act.--Provided, always, that all such persons, before exercising said functions, appear before me and take the oath of allegiance to the United States. Henry H. Lockwood, Brigadier-General commanding. Headquarters, Drummondtown.
The Daily Dispatch: December 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Late Northern News. (search)
ad. Some were easily marched around and others quickly removed. The first earthwork they encountered was this side of Oak Hill, prepared for four guns, but none were mounted, and there was no force visible anywhere. Between Oak Hill and Drummondtown another battery was encountered, on which eight guns were mounted, but it was entirely deserted. There was also another earthwork about eight miles beyond Drummondtown, which was likewise deserted. Up to the time our informant left thereDrummondtown, which was likewise deserted. Up to the time our informant left there had been nine smooth-bore iron cannon captured, all elegantly mounted, but no ammunine, with the exception of some bags of iron rings, evidently cut from rod iron, about an inch and a half long- No powder had been discovered, and if they had any it has been concealed. The only muskets thus far secured were about one hundred old that-locked, with rough units in them that would not explode powder placed in the pans more than once in six trials. Colonel Smith, who had command of the militia
The Daily Dispatch: February 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], Affairs on the eastern shore. (search)
the eastern shore. It appears that the Yankees are publishing a small newspaper, called the " Regimental Flag," at Drummondtown, Accomac county Virginia. We are enabled, "by special arrangement," to lay before our readers a few choice extracts fpainted black, so that at night is perfectly invisible." "Headquarters.--General Lockwood has his headquarters at Drummondtown, which is about one mile from camp. He occupies the fine brick mansion left vacant by a certain Dr. Browne. The Docth line between Wilmington, Del, and Old Point Comfort, Va., is rapidly progressing towards compilation. It will reach Drummondtown by Saturday next-- The contractor is under heavy bonds to have the line completed, including the submarine portion acrof February. Success to the enterprise we say." "Coast Surver.--Under Prof. A. Bache, two parties are located in Drummondtown making surveys of the county, and taking soundings of the creeks and inlets, and replacing buoys, &c." "A Rapid S
The Daily Dispatch: February 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Latest Northern News. (search)
against said marshals for gross outrages of private rights. These measures will no doubt be passed by a body so ready to do the bidding of Lincoln. Affairs on the Eastern Shore. The Regimental Flag, published at Camp Wilkes, at Drummondtown, Virginia, and dated February 13th, gives a summary of affairs on the Eastern Shore. We make the following extracts: Gave in their Adhesion. Captain Le Cato, who had charge of their troops at Camp Johnson, near Pungoteague, before the arrled for duty to guard the telegraph line from Salisbury, Maryland, to Cape Charles, Virginia. Headquarters at Drummond town; Lieutenant-Colonel at Newtown, Major at Eastville; one half of the command will be stationed below and one-half above Drummondtown. Rejoicing at the North. Washington was to be illuminated on Saturday, and as a part of the celebration the following order was published: War Department, Washington,D. C., Feb. 18, 1862 Ordered by the President, Commande
The Daily Dispatch: April 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], The War. (search)
To be sold. --It will be seen by the proceedings in admiralty before Judge J. D. Halyburton, of the District Court, that measures are being initiated to sell the brig Sabao, of Providence, Rhode Island; brig Marcus, of Stockton, N. J., and schr. C. T. Dill, of Accomac, Va., recently captured in Hampton Roads by the Confederate States ship-of-war Virginia, and carried into the port of Norfolk.
The Daily Dispatch: August 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
health of the troops has improved ever since they began to receive fresh vegetables, which were ordered to be issued to them by Gen. McClellan. Outrageous proceedings in Accomac — brutal murder of citizens by Yankee soldiers. The citizens of Accomac county, Va., are subjected to the most cruel and barbarous treatment by the Yankee hirelings who now infest and pollute by their presence that portion of our State. At a court held for that county last Monday, says the Enquirer, at Drummondtown, a soldier, in passing through the crowd near the Court-House, came across a young man by the name of Bell, who had been captured at Roanoke Island, and paroled. Seeing that Bell had a small badge hanging inside of his vest, he asked if that was a "secesh" badge? Bell replied that it was only a badge which had been used by the members of the Debating Society while at College; and he still kept it as remembrance of hours happily spent among friends and comrades. The Yankee soldier, said
The Daily Dispatch: December 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], Attack on our pickets — affairs on the Peninsula. (search)
Lemuel J. Bowden, left Williamsburg, went to Washington, and complained that the military commander of the "Old Burg" was too lenient to our citizens, and that he ought to be removed. On his return, he was walking quietly down the street, consoles of having accomplished his ends, when some Yankees fell to and gave him such a handsome drubbing that it is thought he will, as of old, have to keep his house for several weeks. A few weeks since a steamer arrived in Pungoteague creek, in Accomac, Va., from the Eastern shore of Maryland, with troops to be landed there, to keep the Virginians down and guard the two counties on that side the Chesapeake; but, lo and behold! the Marylanders refused to go on shore, stating "that they would not fight against Virginia, and that they had only been enrolled as a home guard." The commander of the steamer could neither persuade nor force them ashore, so he had to telegraph to Fortress Monroe to know what to do. After waiting two days, a steam tu
The Daily Dispatch: November 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
hearts are wrung with the tidings of their sufferings — in the name of the sensibilities of every loyal man in the Republic — in the name of civilization — in the name of humanity — in the name of God--we demand that these victims of Confederate fiendishness shall be rescued, at whatever cost." Miscellaneous. Major General Schenck, in Baltimore, has issued an order prohibiting any one visiting the Confederate prisoners in hospitals there. Brig.-Gen. Lockwood reports from Drummondtown, Va., on the 15th, his coast guard the day before captured a small party of Confederate raiders on the Chesapeake shore, and that on the same day one of his coasting vessels fell in with and captured Capt. John T. Beall himself, three commissioned officers, and six men. He thinks this will put an end to the depredations in that department. The Yankee Government intends to recruit eleven regiments of negro troops in Maryland. Lincoln commenced the preparation of his Message to Con
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