Lately, I've been digging in a different direction. I've been trying to create a list of general hospitals and wayside hospitals established by the Confederate government in North Carolina. General hospitals were usually large structures, sometimes occupying existing buildings, like Peace College in Raleigh, or at times, new structures were built, like the 500-bed facility at the fairgrounds in Charlotte. I am fairly certain that I've identified all of the general hospitals in North Carolina in 1861-1865. They are:
General Hospital No. 1 - Kittrell Springs
General Hospital No. 2 - Wilson
General Hospital No. 3 - Goldsboro
General Hospital No. 4 - Wilmington
General Hospital No. 5 - Wilmington
General Hospital No. 6 - Fayetteville
General Hospital No. 7 - Raleigh
General Hospital No. 8 - Raleigh
General Hospital No. 9 - Salisbury
General Hospital No. 10 - Salisbury
General Hospital No. 11 - Charlotte
General Hospital No. 12 - Greensboro
General Hospital No. 13 - Raleigh
Wayside hospitals were established next to the railroads, and offered food, along with clean bandages or medicine to soldiers traveling home on furlough or back to the army. As of today, my "official" wayside hospital list is:
Wayside Hospital No. 1 - Weldon
Wayside Hospital No. 2 - Greensboro
Wayside Hospital No 3 - Salisbury
Wayside Hospital No. 4 - ?
Wayside Hospital No. 5 - Wilmington
Wayside Hospital No. 6 - Charlotte
Wayside Hospital No. 7 - Tarboro
And then there comes a list of others - places that so far have not appeared on any list as being official general or wayside hospitals. This list included:
Goldsboro
Thomasville
High Point
Wake Forest
Raleigh
Maybe Raleigh was Wayside Hospital No. 4 in the above list. However, I've yet to find anything that says that in an official capacity.
By the way, the list above is the most complete list that I know of. It is built from period newspapers, and from a list that appeared in an article that was in the Confederate Medical and Surgical Journal in 1864.
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