"Gerard J. Nolan" wrote: > > My great-granduncle, Captain Michael Donovan Purtell, was wounded on 10 May 1864 somewhere near Spotsylvania Courthouse. I know that he was evacuated to a hospital in Washington, D.C. where he died on 13 May 1864. > Does anyone know where I could obtain information on the Hospital, Death Certificate, etc.? ------------------------ Gerard, I found this in "Guide to Federal Archives Relating to the Civil War" by Kenneth W. Munden and Henry Putney Beers, NARA, Washington, 1962: Under RG 112 - "Practically all records of the Surgeon General's Office relating to Civil War hospitals are in Record Group 94, but in Record Group 112 there are several volumes giving names, locations, dates of opening and closing, and other details of general and other Army hospitals of the period. Also available are monthly reports of sick and wounded, from 1861." Under RG 94 - "Records of Civil War deaths and other casualties consist of the following: registers of deaths, volunteers (63 vols);...regimental casualty lists (17 ft); army corps, army, and department casualty lists (19 ft); casualty lists of commissioned officers...There are indexes to the above casualty lists (10 ft); indexes to casualties reported by surgeons (13 vols); a regimental index to casualties at...'Wilderness to Cold Harbor'; a chronological index to the casualty lists...' "The field records of hospitals, 1821-1912, include...the army corps books (76 ft) (which) are devoted exclusively to the 25 Civil War corps...Various lists facilitate the finding and use of these volumes, which consist in general of registers of sick and wounded, order and letter books, clothing and descriptive books...These are the original records of military hospitals of all classes...Other records of or pertaining to hospitals include a 'Record of General Hospitals,' 1862-1866 (1 vol)...some of the so-called 'B Books' or registers of patients in hospitals (indexed); hospital registers of deaths, 1860-1889 (18 vols)...Useful as finding aids for these records are an index to Civil War hospitals, an 'Index to Army Corps Organization - Hospitals - Civil War Period', and an index to organizations by State with reference to hospital records available." Research this deep probably means a DITY field trip to DC, but something in all this might be what knocks the bricks down. Dennis mailto:fran@ees.eesc.com Sterling Heights Michigan