Jun 8, 2013 · Oakwood Cemetery was the final resting place of soldiers who died in treatment at Chimborazo Hospital, a massive facility on Church Hill, along with casualties from several battles fought in the Richmond area. By the end of the war, the Confederate section of the cemetery covered about 7.5 acres and contained around 17,000 burials.

Feb 4, 2020 · Oakwood is the lesser known of Confederate cemetaries in Richmond, but it is just as important in several ways. It was the cemetary where soldiers that died at Chimborazo hospital were interred. By the end of the war there were somewhere between …

Jun 7, 2021 · Gillispie uses data from Richmond's Confederate military hospital Chimborazo, to point out that even with medicines and medical care the percentage of Confederate soldiers who died in prison camps or the field from certain diseases was much smaller than that of the Confederate soldiers who died from the same diseases while receiving medical ...

Jun 13, 2012 · According to the service record for John Holdridge, drummer, he was wounded at Salem Church May 3, in Chimborazo Hospital May 6, 1863 for gun shot to hip, and returned to duty June 16, 1863. His service cards do not, however, include a muster roll for July 1863. There is an entry for Jan, Feb, March, April, Sept and Oct 1863.

Mar 26, 2022 · He remained a POW until October 1864 when he was part of the "sick exchange." Was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond and subsequently granted "sick furlough" where he returned to his home in Rockingham County, VA and died there of “ascites” in November 1864 with his widow receiving a pension in later years.

Jan 4, 2023 · Chimborazo was more of a general convalescent hospital, so I think there were actual buildings etc. Sheridan's Winchester hospital was a field hospital, so the patient housing was pretty much all tents. I think it served for Third Winchester, Cedar Creek, and other area engagements, but only existed from about Sept 1864 to January 1865. ARB

Jan 16, 2014 · He fought at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville & Gettysburg. He was shot in the left wrist and got captured at Gettysburg during Pickett's massacre. His arm was amputated in a federal field hospital without anesthesia. He was traded and spent a while in a Chimborazo (excuse spelling) hospital in Richmond. Discharged and sent home in 1864.

May 14, 2020 · "Shocked by the concussion of a shell," Wooten was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #4 in Richmond on July 16 and furloughed for 35 days on August 19. Thereafter, until the end of the war he was frequently "absent, sick" or "absent without leave."

Jun 9, 2021 · From there he was exchanged on March 17, 1864. Initially hospitalized at Richmond for "vascular disease of the heart," by mid-November 1864 he apparently had recovered sufficiently to be appointed as a nurse at the Chimborazo hospital …

Aug 30, 2011 · I don't have an order of battle for the regiments that fought there, but I do know that the 21st South Carolina Infantry, the 31st North Carolina Infantry, the Surrey Light Artillery, and the 59th Alabama Infantry all participated in the Bermuda Hundred Campaign and fought as Proctor's Creek.