Administrative files, 1861-1905, and n.d.

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Administrative files, 1861-1905, and n.d.

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The Ala. Hospitals in Richmond, Va., were established by an act of the Ala. legislature in 1861 Nov. to provide medical care for Ala. soldiers serving in the Army of the Potomac, later known as the Army of Northern Va. Juliet Opie Hopkins served as Matron and acting superintendent of the hospitals from 1861 to 1864. From 1864 to 1865 she was in charge of the military hospital at Camp Watts, Macon County, Ala. This series, consisting of administrative files from 1861 to 1865, documents Hopkins' day-to-day activities as a hospital administrator. Included are correspondence, letters, telegrams, broadsides, newspaper clippings, receipts, canceled checks, account books (bookkeeping), lists of hospital supplies and patients received by hospitals, a record of soldiers admitted into the hospitals, a record of soldiers who died in the hospitals, and a scrapbook. The letters contain information about supply requests for the hospital, articles received and donated, financial contributions, and the nurse volunteers. Primary correspondents include Ala. Governors A.B. Moore and John Gill Shorter, Col. William D. Chadwick, M.H. Sanborn, Confederate Secretary of War Leroy Pope Walker, and Gen. W.O. Hardee. The account books contain information on inventories of supplies and furnishings, invoices, and accounts with the State of Alabama. Of specific note is an account book of deceased soldiers that details how the money and personal effects of deceased soldiers were handled. The scrapbook is especially noteworthy. It contains a letter to General Joseph Wheeler from Thomas M. Owen, in 1905. There is also a copy of the 1861 act creating the hospital agency in Va. In the scrapbook there are numerous letters and other documents from prominent Confederate and Alabama leaders. Correspondents include Ala. Governors A.B. Moore, John Gill Shorter, and Thomas Hill Watts, Confederate officals, such as Leroy Pope Walker, William Lowndes Yancey, and C.G. Memminger; and military officers Evander M. Law, Levi W. Lawler, Edward A. O'Neal, Percy Walker, W.O. Hardee, N.H.R. Dawson, and J.J. Seibels. There are also a list of patients received on page 54, invoices, telegrams, clippings, and most notably a broadside from Selma dated 1861 September 4 discussing the establishment of a hospital in Richmond for Alabama soldiers

Originals 0.7 cubic ft. (2 archives boxes).Copies 2 microfilm reels.

Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Moore, A. B. 1807-1873.

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O'Neal, Edward Asbury, 1818-1890

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Seibels, John J.

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Shorter, John Gill, 1818-1872

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Dawson, Nathaniel Henry Rhodes, 1829-1895.

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Law, E. M. b.1836.

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Owen, Thomas McAdory, 1866-1920

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Chadwick, William D. 1817-1878.

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Lawler, Levi W. b.1816.

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Hardee, W. O.

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Memminger, C. G. 1803-1888

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