Tonya, I was lucky enough in 1944 to marry a beautiful Oxford girl. She was the daughter of Charles R. Nelson, who was Principal of UHS, and I lived in Oxford for 15 yrs. The Civil War still has a lot of mysteries. Chimborazo Hospital was located on Chimborazo Hill, which is part of Church Hill in Richmond, VA, and it started operating in 1861. The doctors and the women of Richmond worked around the clock in an effort to meet the overwhelming needs of the wounded Confederate Soldiers. During the War, Chimborazo passed 76,000 patients. The mortality rate, despite the difficulties, was slightly over 9 percent, a figure not equal in military hospitals until WW II. It was oftenly 150 well-ventilated single story buildings, each about 100 by 30 ft. There were also 100 "sibley tents" in which 8-10 convalescents could be cared for. Most of the dead was buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, and, of course, there are no marked or engraved tombstones. Thousands of Confederate dead were buried free. Later in the war, the dead were buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond. My source of information is taken from a book written Virginius Dabney titled THE STORY OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND. If you know the company and regiment and the State, the National Archives in Washington, DC may have the information you want. The Mississippi State Library, Jackson, MS, should also have information on each of the Confederate Units from Mississippi. There are many sites on the internet that you can go into. Just enter CIVIL WAR, or you can test other entries. If you have never been to Richmond, it would be a wonderful trip, and if you are interested in the Civil War, you could spend a week doing the battlefields and the White House of the Confederaby, and, of course, there is Monument Avenue where there are many monuments of the Civil War heroes. If you come this far, you need to visit Williamsburg. There is a lot of history in Williamsburg, Yorktown and Jamestown, as well as our famous Busch Gardens. I hope this information can be of value to you. Roger and Esta Anderson Williamsburg, VA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kristian & Tonya Mercer" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 4:26 PM Subject: Re: [MSLAFAYE] RE: MSLAFAYE-D Digest V01 #118 > Roger > > Was there a specific cemetery that the hospital used in that area. I'm > curious as to what all the company that he was in did. Do you know how to > go about finding that. This is what I know on him. Also do you know where > to get any information on the hospital. > > "Pvt. Thomas W. Nunn, Company E, 19th Mississippi Regiment, McClung > Rifles, Lafayette County > Enlisted by Capt. Vaughn on Feb. 25, 1861 at Oxford. Age: 17 yrs. > Admitted to Chimborazo Hospital No. 5, on May 12, 1862 with "cont. fever". > Died there on June 4th, 1862. No further information. (The Source is " > Confederate Soldiers of Lafayette County" by Walter Coffey.)" > > Thanks > Tonya > > > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > >