Battlefield Dispatches No. 260: Report on post hospital conditions

Friday, April 8, 2011

Some time ago, David Haimerl, who is a very good friend, fellow researcher and historian discovered the following 1862 description of the hospitals in Fort Scott at the end of the second year of the Civil War. One of the joys of studying the Civil War is that most folks who do this are happy to share the new "old" information they have discovered. Such is the case with the following report which would have remained buried in the pages of the Sept. 26, 1862 edition of the Leavenworth Conservative Newspaper if not for David's eagle eye and extraordinary patience in reviewing and reading microfilm.

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