Sick and Wounded Confederate Soldiers at Hagerstown
and Williamsport
[From the Richmond, Virginia, Dispatch, April 2, 1899]
Old Record Sent to Governor Tyler
Dr. J. M. Gaines, the Surgeon in Charge, Wishes it
Preserved to Posterity, List Contains Nearly Three
Hundred Names.
Governor Tyler has received from Dr. J. M. Gaines, of
Hagerstown, Maryland, late surgeon 18th Virginia
infantry, Garnett's brigade, Pickett's division,
Longstreet's corps, Army of Northern Virginia, a
complete list of the sick and
wounded Confederate soldiers left at Williamsport,
Pennsylvania, and Hagerstown, Maryland, after the
battle of Gettysburg, from July 13 to August 12, 1863.
Dr. Gaines made the report of the number of inmates of
these hospitals. By order of General Lee, he was left at
Williamsport to care for the wounded of the Army of
Northern Virginia. After the hospital was established in
Hagerstown, Dr. Gaines was sent thither by the Federal
authorities to care for his wounded comrades. He
remained with the wounded and sick until most of them
were sent North, chiefly to Chester, Pennsylvania Dr.
Gaines was sent to Chester, and had charge of the ward
of the Confederate sick and wounded until they were sent
to Point Lookout. Dr. Gaines was sent to Fort Delaware,
and finally to Point Lookout, where he was allowed to
attend a ward filled with sick and wounded Confederates.
About December 12, 1863, he was sent to Washington and
Fort Monroe by way of Baltimore, and was exchanged.
The rolls sent the Governor are the original copies, and
were recently found by Dr. Gaines in his library at
Hagerstown. He is a native of Virginia, having been born
at Locust Hill, near Culpeper. He is very anxious that
the Governor make such disposition of the rolls as will
insure their preservation to posterity.
The list has never been published, and the Dispatch
presents it below. It will be read with interest, not
only by the men who took part in the great struggle at
Gettysburg, when what has been termed the "High-water
Mark of the Rebellion" was reached, but by all old
soldiers and by their children. The name, rank,
regiment, date of wound, and date of death, if fatally
ill or wounded, are given:
Name, Rank, Regiment, Date of wound, and Date of death,
if fatally Ill or Wounded
Listed by State
Maryland
AHGP
Source: Southern Historical
Society Papers, Volume XXVII, Edited by R. A. Brock,
Richmond, VA, 1899.
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