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 Petersburg, Va. General military 
 hospital for the N.C. trooos 
 The general military hosoital 
 
The University of 
 North Carolina Library 
 
 From the 
 ERNEST HAYWOOD LIBRARY 
 
 Established in Memory of 
 
 John Haywood, Trustee 1789-1827 
 
 Edmund Burke Haywood, 1843-46 
 
 Ernest Haywood, '80 
 
 by 
 
 Burke Haywood Bridgers, '03 
 
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THE 
 
 GENERAL MILITARY HOSPITAL 
 
 FOR THE 
 
 NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS 
 
 IN 
 
 PETERSBURG VIRGINIA. 
 
 RALEIGH: 
 
 STROTHER & MARCOM BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS. 
 1861. 
 
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THE 
 
 GENERAL MILITARY HOSPITAL 
 
 FOR THE 
 
 NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS 
 
 IN 
 
 PETERSBURG VIRGINIA. 
 
 ■» ■»■ 
 
 RALEIGH: 
 
 STROTHER & MARCOM BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS. 
 1861. 
 
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 in 2013 
 
 http://archive.org/details/generalmilitaryhOOstro 
 
GENERAL MILITARY HOSPITAL. 
 
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 The General Military Hospital for the North Car- 
 olina Troops, in Petersburg, Virginia, is situated on 
 Perry street, within a few yards of the Southern Eail 
 Eoad, and is one of the most convenient and comforta- 
 ble Military Hospitals in the country. The building 
 is three stories in height, each story or floor being 
 divided into wards. It is provided with suitable heating 
 apparalus, and the windows are arranged for lowering 
 or hoisting. Each ward is lighted by gas ; hot and cold 
 water carried over the Hospital, into the kitchen, the 
 bathing rooms and other places, on each floor, and into 
 the laundry in the yard. Suitable arrangements have 
 also been made for conveying patients from one floor to 
 another without being carried up and down the stairs 
 by hand. 
 
 The Hospital can be easily reached by means of an 
 Ambulance Car, which will be run across the city of 
 Richmond connecting the Central and Fredericksburg 
 Railroads, which transport the sick and wounded from 
 the armies on the Potomac and in Western Virginia, 
 with the Richmond and Petersburg Roads, running 
 within thirty-five yards of the Hospital door; while 
 those from the Peninsula! and from the south side of 
 James River, can readily get to Petersburg along the 
 different routs of travel from those places. 
 
 The affairs of this Hospital will be under the gen- 
 eral management and supervision of the Governor of 
 
North Carolina, and the Surgeon General of the State, 
 as an Executivee Committe, who shall have power to 
 select and discharge all the officers and attendants 
 required for the Hospital and Hospital Depots ; to re- 
 caive and apply any contributions of money or other 
 things intended for the use of the North Carolina volun- 
 teers or Hospital ; and to do everything necessary to 
 carry out the objects contemplated by establishing this 
 Hospital. 
 
 First. — They shall apply to the Secretary of War 
 and Surgeon General of the Confederate States for the 
 appointment of such Surgeons and assistant Surgeons 
 and Dressers as they may select. 
 
 Second. — They shall apply for the necessary medical 
 supplies for this Hospital. 
 
 Third. — They shall apply for rations for the soldiers 
 in Hospital, and such of the employees of the Hospital 
 as are allowed rations under the rules and regulations 
 of the Confederate States Army. 
 
 Fourth. — They shall obtain transportation for Hos- 
 pital Stores, forwarded for the use of the Hospital, or 
 any of the North Carolina Volunteers in Virginia, and 
 also for all persons employed in carrying out properly 
 the objects of this institution. 
 
 And in turn it shall be their duty to furnish to the 
 War Department any report or information relative to 
 the patients and expenditures that may be asked for ; 
 and to publish from time to time such statements of 
 the transactions of the Hospital as they may deem ad- 
 visable, or shall be called for by authority, either for 
 the information of the State, the Medical and War 
 Departments of the Confederate States, Contributors,or 
 for the benefit of the Volunteers. 
 
 It shall also be their duty to extend the benefits of 
 
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this Hospital to the Volunteers of any other State when 
 they can do so without excluding those from North 
 Carolina. 
 
 NUMBER OF OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES. 
 
 One Surgeon-in-Chief, (commissioned ;) two or three 
 Assistant Surgeons, (commissioned ;) one Apothecary ; 
 one Secretary and Clerk ; one Steward and Treasurer ; 
 one Matron and two or three assistants; three or four 
 Medical Students as dressers, &c; Nurses, Servants, 
 Cooks, and Washers, as many as may he required. 
 
 DUTIES OF THE HOSPITAL OFFICERS. 
 
 SURGEON-IX-CHIEF. 
 
 1. It shall be the duty ot the chief Surgeon to super- 
 intend and direct the medical and surgical treatment of 
 the patients, and to keep the Executive Committee in- 
 formed of all requisitions necessary for these purposes. 
 He will distribute the patients, according to convenience 
 and the nature of their complaints, into wards or divis- 
 ions, under the particular charge of the assistant Surge- 
 ons,and will visit them himself each day, as frequently as 
 the sick or wounded may require, accompanied by the 
 Assistant Surgeons, Dressers and Nurses. 
 
 2. His prescriptions of medicine and diet are daily 
 to be written down in a register, with the name of the 
 patient and number of the bed ; and the Assistant Sur- 
 geons or Dressers, in his absence, will see that the di- 
 rections are carried out. 
 
 3. He will enforce the proper Hospital regulations 
 to promote health and prevent contagion, by having 
 well ventilated and not over crowded rooms, scrupu- 
 lous cleanliness, changes of bed linen, &c. 
 
 4. All the employees of the Hospital will be under 
 
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 his orders ; and he will carefully see to the keeping of 
 the following records : a register of patients ; a pre- 
 scription and diet book ; a case book ; copies of his 
 requisitions; monthly returns of sick and wounded ; 
 an order and letter book, in which will be transcribed 
 all orders and letters relating to his duties. 
 
 ASSISTANT SURGEONS. 
 
 The Assistant Surgeons shall be under the control 
 and direc f ion of the Chief Surgeon, and in like manner 
 subject to remov.al. They shall see that subordinate 
 officers do their duty, and aid in enforcing the regula- 
 tions of the Hospital. 
 
 They must not leave the Hospital without the con- 
 sent of the chief Surgeon, and one or the other of them 
 must always be there when the chief Surgeon is ab- 
 sent. 
 
 APOTHECARY. 
 
 The Apothecary must be a competent man, approved 
 by the Chief Surgeon, and appointed by the Executive 
 Committee. 
 
 His duty is to dispense the medicines and put up the 
 prescriptions of the surgeons. 
 
 He must remain in the Hospital building day and 
 night, so as to be always at hand to discharge the 
 proper duties of his office. 
 
 RESIDENT STUDENTS OR DRESSERS. 
 
 There may be appointed by the Executive Committee 
 four medical students (commissioned) who >diall have 
 attended at least one full course of lectures in a regular 
 medical college, and who shall perform the duties of 
 dressers or assistants, to the surgeons and apothecary. 
 
They are never to leave the Hospital without the 
 consent of the Chief Surgeon, or Executive Committee. 
 They shall be allowed hoard and washing in the Hospital. 
 
 SECRETARY AND CLERK. 
 
 The Secretary and Clerk shall keep a full record 
 of every patient admitted into and discharged from the 
 Hospital — showing his name, age, nativity and disease 
 or injury ; also the company and regiment to which he 
 belongs. 
 
 He shall make a memorandum of any money, cloth- 
 ing, or other articles delivered to him by the patients, 
 and hand the same to the Treasurer or Steward for 
 safe keeping, and do any thing else that may be re- 
 quired of him by the chief Surgeon or Executive Com_ 
 mittee. For example, he shall receive and forward 
 all letters and packages directed to the care of the 
 Hospital for the North Carolina Volunteers in Virgin- 
 ia; and he shall keep a full and accurate list of all the 
 North Carolina Kegiments and Battalions in the ser- 
 vice, and endeavor to keep informed of their position 
 and such of their wants as can be relieved from this 
 Hospital. 
 
 He shall attend to all letters of inquiry relative to 
 patients in the Hospital and the North Carolina Vol- 
 unteers generally, as far as he can, keeping up a weekly 
 correspondence with the Surgeons of our Regiments. 
 
 It shall also be his duty, under the immediate super- 
 vision of the Surgeon in Chief, to draw up any report 
 and furnish any information that may be required by 
 the Secretary of "War, the Surgeon General of the Con. 
 federate States, or the Executive Committee. 
 
STEWARD. 
 
 The Steward shall have charge of the Commissariat 
 of the Hospital and attend to the marketing; take 
 charge of all Hospital stores, furniture of every de- 
 scription, supplies for the sick, and superintend the 
 domestic affairs of the Hospital generally. He shall 
 keep a roster ot nurses, cooks, and attendants, and re- 
 turns for rations, according to the number in the Hos- 
 pital ; receive and distribute rations, and submit his 
 book to the chief Surgeon, monthly for examination, 
 or oftener if required. He will issue stores to cooks 
 and nurses, and enter the amount in his book. He 
 will be responsible for furniture, bedding, cooking 
 utensils, and for keeping the store room neat and clean. 
 In the discharge of these duties he will derive assis- 
 tance from the matrons and ward master. 
 
 He shall also act as Treasurer of the Hospital, giving 
 bond for the faithful performance of the duties of this 
 office. 
 
 MATRONS. 
 
 The Matrons will assist the Steward in the general 
 domestic management of the Hospital, especially in 
 looking after the washing and cooking and nice con- 
 dition of the wards, and in seeing that the female 
 nurses do their duty. 
 
This BOOK may be kept out TWO WEEKS 
 ONLY, and is subject to a fine of FIVE 
 CENTS a day thereafter. It was taken out on 
 the day indicated below: