GEORGIA   CONFEDERATE HOSPITALS   GATE-CITY - Atlanta

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Oakland Cemetery was the cemetery for some of those who died in Gate City Hospital.

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Other Atlanta Hospitals include:
 Fairgrounds Hospital, No. 1, Atlanta, Ga.--Registers. 

Fairgrounds Hospital, No. 2, Atlanta, Ga.--Registers. 
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Dr. Paul F. Eve (1806-1877), born in Augusta, Georgia and was trained in the Medical School of Pennsylvania in 1828, and then trained to be a surgeon in London and Paris.


In 1832, he was elected Professor of Surgery in the Medical College of Georgia,(newly organized in Augusta) and taught there for 17 years. In 1851, Eve became Professor of Surgery  University of Nashville. 

"Eve was appointed Surgeon General of a provisional Army of Tennessee. He worked in Nashville hospitals, treating casualties, until Forts Henry and Donelson fell in February of 1862. He fled Nashville on February 16th taking his surgical instruments with him. Six days later he was Commander and Surgeon of the Gate-City Hospital in Atlanta. This hospital was located in a second-rate hotel of 32 rooms and was constantly overcrowded with patients. In spite of difficult conditions, Eve was able to treat and return to duty a high percentage of casualties."

http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/biolib/hc/biopages/peve.html

Shelley, Harry S. "The Military Career and Some Urological Works of Paul F. Eve, M.D.," Journal of the Tennessee Medical Association, volume 70, no.4, April, 1977.

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Some of the men who died in Gate-City Hospital in Atlanta and are probably buried in Oakland Cemetery there.

Baker, J.C.
 died 6/8/1863 at Gate City Hospital, Atlanta, GA 
25th Alabama Infantry - Company F 

Freeze, B.F., 
died 4/21/1863 at Gate City Hospital, Atlanta, GA
25th Alabama Infantry - Company F 


White, Columbus C.- private March 10, 1862. 
Died in Gate City Hospital at Atlanta, Ga. May 4 or 12, 1862.
Co F 43rd. Georgia Infantry Regiment
JACKSON COUNTY, GEORGIA  


Clark, Sterling - private March 4, 1862. 
Died of disease in Gate City Hospital at Atlanta, Ga. June 1, 1862. 
CO C 42nd Georgia Infantry Regiment
MILTON COUNTY, GEORGIA 
MILTON TIGERS 

RUGG Francis D. (enlisted, 11 March 62, Elba, AL, aged 33;
in hospital, Medical College, Atlanta, 28 Feb- 1 Nov 62, and
requested disability discharge; died in service 12 Oct 63,
Gate City Hospital, Atlanta; deceased claim filed, Coffee
Co., AL, 27 May 64, by Monday J. Rugg, widow) 
Co "A", 33rd AL Infantry

Private William L. Thornley 
 injured  at the Battle of Stones River. He was taken to Gate City Hospital In Atlanta where he died prior to June 0f 1863(possible burial)


"Felix Headstream" of Company K, 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles buried in Section D, Row 6, Space 12. No date of death is presented here, but see entries in Appendices 1 & 2. A second name is listed on page 77 for this same space - "J. K. P. Searce" of the 37th Alabama Infantry who died on May 23, 1864. 


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Dr. Robert E. Zaworski's "Headstones of Heroes: The Restoration and History of Confederate Graves in Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery" (Turner Publishing, Paducah, Kentucky, 1998). Toll free: [(800) 788-3350]