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This is my ancestor, William F. Moore, 6th Alabama Cavalry. He was hospitalized in February 1864, and didn't return to his unit until that November. I have two questions:
1.) His "complaint" is written as "Feb Ty." What is that? My best guess is Typhoid or Typhus. And the "Feb" could be short for February. Does anyone have any more information?
2.) There are two hospital records for him. One noted him at a hospital in Jackson, Mississippi. And the other specifically says he was at Shelby Springs Alabama in July and August 1864. Was he transferred? Did the whole hospital move? All I have found so far is that the hospital at Shelby Springs was established by Confederates fleeing Vicksburg in 1863 (a year before this solider was hospitalized). Jackson and Vicksburg are super close. I know the Union soldiers burned Jackson during the Vicksburg campaign. I'm suspicious the hospital at Jackson was long gone before this soldier ever fell sick. Does anyone have any other information? Were they just still reusing the same records book from Jackson at Shelby Springs?
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1.) His "complaint" is written as "Feb Ty." What is that? My best guess is Typhoid or Typhus. And the "Feb" could be short for February. Does anyone have any more information?
2.) There are two hospital records for him. One noted him at a hospital in Jackson, Mississippi. And the other specifically says he was at Shelby Springs Alabama in July and August 1864. Was he transferred? Did the whole hospital move? All I have found so far is that the hospital at Shelby Springs was established by Confederates fleeing Vicksburg in 1863 (a year before this solider was hospitalized). Jackson and Vicksburg are super close. I know the Union soldiers burned Jackson during the Vicksburg campaign. I'm suspicious the hospital at Jackson was long gone before this soldier ever fell sick. Does anyone have any other information? Were they just still reusing the same records book from Jackson at Shelby Springs?
Source of images:
https://www.fold3.com/image/6876657
https://www.fold3.com/image/6876655