| Abstract: |
Samuel Hollingworth Stout (1822-1903) was a physician who served as Medical Director of the General Hospitals of the Army
and Department of Tennessee during the American Civil War. The collection consists of papers concerning Stout's activities
in the hospitals of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. The bulk of the papers cover the period 1863-1864 and give a detailed
report on the conditions and daily life of Confederate Army hospitals, mostly in Georgia. Includes special orders, lists of
medical officers, hospital stewards or managers, train surgeons, field nurses, and other employees, and reports of supplies
of medicines and foods, hospital equipment and furnishings, and patients admitted.
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