Would you mind elaborating on your question, please? Do you mean you have information that wounded from that particular place were channeled to Vicksburg or are looking for an overview of which wounded from which places were sent where? Is it just Corinth you're interested in?
Vicksburg had quite a few hospitals, some were homes, like most towns during the war visited by violence. Must have been crazy for the citizens, gosh.
I know wounded members of the 22nd Kentucky were funneled back to Vicksburg after the fall of the city. They came from various places like Louisiana until they got closers to New Orleans when they were funneled there. That's about the extent of my knowledge of Union hospitals there.
My question refers specifically to soldiers who were wounded at Shiloh and ended up being taken to Vicksburg...
Forrest, I realized what you meant, although I had to LOOK at where you had posted the thread in the first place! On the homepage where threads originally appear, it isn't obvious at all, so it would've helped if you titled the thread something like Were Shiloh Wounded Taken to Vicksburg?
Sorry, my bad. I use the New Posts and never look at the forum name (or sub forum). My reference was after the fall of Vicksburg so completely misses what you are seeking.Are you saying they were funneled to Vicksburg after Shiloh?
It's possible to edit the thread title? If you edit it to what James suggests would probably get even more replies- we have so many well read members it's a shame to miss anyone else with information.
And whoa, there's a topic I've never seen discussed, how hospitals in Vicksburg fared during the siege. Had not occurred to me, wounded being in the city. Must have suffered from shortages along with everyone else plus can't imagine some were able to be moved to the shelters dug all over.
I can't figure out how to edit the title
Forrest, look at the top of this page - over at the right side appears Thread Tools^ Unwatch Thread; click on the little arrow and a "pull down" will appear that says Edit Title. Click on that and it will let you redo the title however you want.
Got it - thanks!
Shaara! Thanks very much! It may sound awful but have never read his Vicksburg work- so much for skipping books based on personal preference. Sounds as if I missed a huge amount on a topic where information can be annoyingly scanty. Well, unless one reads nurse's journals and the old, archived books. They're pretty amazing. Our Confederate nurses were able to leave less first hand accounts so anything on Vicksburg is most welcome.
Shaara gets his women's views from Emma Balfour, Mary Ann Loughborough, Lucy McRae, Dora Miller and Mollie Tompkins - some are free online if you dig around. I have the writings of all but Mollie Tompkins. If you are interested in doing more research, some of Betty Eggleston's writings are available at LSU and Univ. North Carolina, but apparently nowhere else (not published) - she volunteered at the City Hospital and is mentioned by soldiers, but I have no idea what she might have written. Apparently, she even had a cannon in one of the river batteries named after her, so she was quite popular with the soldiers.
For a look at Confederate citizens and refugees just outside Vicksburg I heartily recommend: http://civilwartalk.com/threads/kate-stone-of-brokenburn.87144/ Twentysomething Kate Stone lived with her mother and siblings on a plantation called Brokenburn near The Bend (Miliken's Bend) just across the Mississippi near what is now Tallulah, Louisiana. They were forced from their home in fear of being molested by riff-raff from Farragut's fleet in 1862 and were gone before the siege but her memoir gives a good idea of life in the vicinity of the river fortress.