----- Original Message ----- From: Dennis J. Francis <fran@ees.eesc.com> To: <CIVIL-WAR-IRISH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 10:28 AM Subject: Re: [CIVIL-WAR-IRISH] Removal of the wounded from Spotsylvania Courthouse > "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 > National Personnel Records Center Military Personnel Records http://www.nara.gov/regional/mpr.html Regional Records Services Facilities http://www.nara.gov/regional/ Desoto Joe/The Record Man