Muscogee County GaArchives Photo Place.....Historic Marker:  Confederate Hospitals April 2006
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                 Confederate Hospitals

In February 1864, to relieve the serious overcrowding of Confed-
erate hospitals in the Atlanta and Dalton areas, Columbus was
chosen as the site of a 1,500 bed army hospital. Eight building
on Broad Street, including two saloons and the Court House, were
rented and equipped. By May there were 1,350 patients. The
location seemed remote from enemy raids.
One of the largest convalescent hospitals in the Confederacy was
constructed "on the edge of town" on the site of Camp Montgomery, 
with Dr. FRANCIS O. TICKNOR, Georgia doctor and poet, as its
chief surgeon.
The greatest hospital activity here followed the capture of
Atlanta in September, 1864. On October 1, Dr. SAMURL HOLLINS-
WORTH STOUT, Medical Director of Hospitials. Army and Department
of Tennesse, ordered hospitals under his command moved to 
Columbus from Macon and Barnesville. Hundreds of patients were
placed in tents on the town common and under the open sheds of 
the Muscogee Railroad. Subsidiary units were established in
Opelika and Tuscumbia, Ala. Advance reports of the approach of
WILSON'S Raiders in 1865 caused the rapid removal of the 
hospital staffs and patients to Atlanta before the raiders 
reached Columbus
   

      
   Georgia Historical Commission    1957.  


Marker on the  10th Ave. side of the Couthouse.

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