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@Robtweb1 my gg grandfather (avatar) was a Surgeon for the CSA.
William C. Cross, appointed Surgeon, 16th Alabama Infantry October 30, 1861, date of confirmation, April 4, 1863, stationed at Beech Grove, Kentucky December, 1861; absent sick June 28, 1862. June 6, 1864, "Appointed a member of Examination Board of Gamble Hospital to examine all patients in the hospital and report such as all able for duty, especial attention as to the fitness of officers for duty is directed," relieved from duty at Newman, Ga.. August 16/18, 1864, and report to Bragg Hospital at Americus, Ga. for duty, posted to an Army of Tennessee hospital at Meridian, Mississippi February 1865, gave his Parole of Honor to the United States May 12, 1865 at Meridian, MississippiM331 Compiled Service Records of Confederate General and Staff Officers, and Nonregimental Enlisted Men
Wm C Cross, of Cherokee, Colbert county was appointed surgeon of the Sixteenth in October, 1861 and was promoted to senior surgeon of the brigade in the spring of 1862 while at Corinth. He remained with the wounded at Perryville; was transferred to hospital duty in the spring of 1863, and remained on duty at Newnan, Ga., until near the close of the war. A brother surgeon who knew him in service, intimately says, "he is a fine physician, a devoted friend, a true patriot, and an elegant gentleman." ~ from Early Settlers of Alabama Part 1, James Edmund Saunders, 1899. Pages 174-175.
Dr Cross was serving as Senior Surgeon of Woods Brigade at Shiloh, choosing the Mickey House as the location for the Brigade Hospital. see more info here
http://civilwartalk.com/threads/photo-and-location-of-mickey-house.106189/#post-986626
One thing that may be interesting to you about Confederate Hospitals .....they moved around as the need indicated and as the Union advance continued into previously 'safe' areas. They werent really hospitals in the traditional sense. Just a collection of staff and supplies that moved (usually by rail) to where they were needed, threw down some clean straw on the floor of whatever building they could find, and set up as best they could to care for the sick and wounded. Nothing like the actual hospital facility where your ancestor served.
After Shiloh, Dr Cross was assigned to the Bragg Hospital which was located in Corinth MS, Canton MS, Chattanooga TN, Ringgold GA, Newnan GA, Americus GA, Marion AL, Livingston AL, and Meridian MS (not necessarily in that order) They got very good at packing up and moving from place to place.
My husbands gg grandfather served in the 16th Georgia Infantry. He was killed in action at the Bloody Angle. I have done work in the records of his Regiment and have run across carded records for Confederates treated at Union Hospitals, but none from the USA General Hospital in Baton Rouge. If I happen across any, I will be sure to let you know.