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Ancestry.com - U.S., Carded Service Records of Hospital Attendants, Matrons and Nurses, 1861-1865 $

Original source: Carded Service Records of Hospital Attendants, Matrons and Nurses, 1861 - 1865. NAID: 655658. Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1762 - 1984, Record Group 94. The National Archives at Washington, DC Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

C.S. Army Deaths at Cassville, Georgia Hospitals

List of deaths of CS soldiers in the hospitals around Cassville, Georgia, during the period between October, 1863, and March, 1864. Transcribed from the Atlanta newspaper, Southern Confederacy of March 25, 1864. Additional data from some state rosters also included.
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Camp Letterman General Hospital

From Gettysburg National Military Park.

Civil War and 19th Century Medical Terminology

Civil War Medicine

Civil War Medicine - Research Guides at Virginia Commonwealth University

From the Virginia Commonwealth University Library. Provides links to a variety of resources related to the medical aspects of the American Civil War. Categories include Archives & Records, Articles, Books, Hospitals, Images, Surgeons, Nurses & the U.S. Sanitary Commission.

Civil War Medicine Vocabulary

Civil War Richmond - Index of Hospitals in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

Civil War Rx - The Source Guide to Civil War Medicine

Confederate Medical Personnel

Article by DeAnne Blanton.

Genealogy Quest - 2nd Division Hospital at Meade Station

Civil War burials in the enclosed ground near 2nd Division Hospital, 9 A. C., at Meade Station, Virginia.

Hale's 31st Alabama / 49th Alabama, Port Hudson, LA Hospital Ledger

National Archives Catalog - Carded Medical Records of Officers, 1861 - 1865

This series consists of cards on which information from original records, such as hospital registers, rolls, and reports, relating to the medical treatment of individual officers has been copied. The information on the cards includes name; rank; organization; complaint; date of admittance and hospital to which admitted; date returned to duty, deserted, discharged, sent to General Hospital, furloughed, or died; remarks; and reference to the original hospital record.

National Museum of Civil War Medicine

National Museum of Health and Medicine

Information on the history of American and military medicine. Special emphasis on Civil War medicine.

New York Public Library - United States Sanitary Commission Records

The United States Sanitary Commission (USSC), 1861-1879, was a civilian organization authorized by the United States government to provide medical and sanitary assistance to the Union volunteer forces during the United States Civil War (1861-1865). As the USSC broadened the scope of its work during the war, Regular troops, sailors and others also benefited from its services. The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, military service claim files, registers, diaries, financial records, scrapbooks, posters, illustrations, photographs, printed matter, maps, ephemera and artifacts concerning the Commission's sanitary, medical and relief work during the Civil War, as well as its post-war relief work and publication activities. The collection also includes the records of the American Association for the Relief of the Misery of Battle Fields, founded in 1866 by USSC officers and former associates.

Register of Confederate Naval Patients in the C.S. Hospital Ship St. Philip at New Orleans, Louisiana, 1861-1862

Register of Confederate naval patients, which includes personal details.
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Register of Confederate Naval Patients in the Charity Hospital at New Orleans, Louisiana, 1861

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Resources in Civil War Medicine

At The Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.