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April 12 Fort Sumter attacked. April 15 President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 vols. April 16 After a patriotic rally in Galena, Ill., Ulysses S. Grant decided to leave his father's leather goods store and to offer his services for the war. A Community History By E. SUTHERLAND FOREWORD Dickenson County is the 'baby county' in Virginia. It was formed in 1880 from parts of Buchanan, Russell and Wise Counties. It is located on the Kentucky border line, high up. Supply Hut, Civil War Hospital, Brattleboro, Vermont In 1864 Private Elbridge J. Knowlton, 4th Vermont Infantry, Co. E, Veterans Reserve Corps. Our illustrations showing the hospital buildings and the barracks are from photographs taken by C. Andrew MOORE died in 1852. His obit was contributed to the Fayette County USGenWeb Project. Died, at his residence in Union township, on the 5th of August, 1852, Col. Andrew Moore, in the 77th year of his age. The deceased was a native of this county-a.
In. Brattleboro. Officer Of The Guards Quarters, Chapel, Assistant Surgeons' Quarters. Corner Atwood And Sunny Acres. Hospital Dispensary With Flanking Patient Wards. Looking West From Parade Ground Center.
Tabb, Langhorne DIED-Langhorne Tabb, one of the most prominent citizens of Mason county, died at his home in Dover Thursday at the venerable age of 93 years and 10 months.The Winchester Democrat, Tuesday, October 16, 1894. The Winchester Sun Tues., 12-23-1913 Abbey, William The Winchester Sun Tues., 2-21-1928 Abbit, Sarah F. DIED-At West Appomattox, Va., Saturday, of paralysis, Mrs. Abbitt, aged 64 years. She was the mother of Rev.
Chaplain's House At Far Right. Signal Tower House On Hill To Northwest. Camp Holbrook In 1. Before Hospital Built. First Vermont Regiment In Camp At Brattleboro 1. Photograph By George Harper Houghton.
Supply Hut, Civil War Hospital, Brattleboro, Vermont In 1. Private Elbridge J. Knowlton, 4th Vermont Infantry, Co. E, Veterans Reserve Corps. Fifth Soldier From The Left. Quartermaster Ansel Lin Snow Is Officer Seated At Center.
Howe. United States Military Hospital 1. Officer's Tents And Barracks. Our illustrations showing the hospital buildings and the barracks are from photographs taken by C.
The entrance to the camp ground was where the present entrance to the Valley Fair grounds is. The building at the extreme right was the chaplain's house, and it stood nearly where the agricultural products building now is. The next building was the surgeon's headquarters, with cook houses to the rear, and a ward adjoining on the south. This building was nearly where the floral hall now is. From this point the buildings ran in a straight line nearly due south. In the centre was the dispensary building with wards adjoining. The arrangement of the hospital buildings proper, it will be seen, was on three sides of a hollow square.
In front of the dispensary building was a grass plat, and a fence extended along the front of all the buildings with a wide belt of green turf between the buildings and the fence. The neatly kept walks were of gravel. Water was supplied from the Bardwell brook, pumping by a water wheel from the brook into a tank at the south end of the buildings. The chapel stood in the rear of the house at the officer of the guard. When the room in the hospital buildings became insufficient, 4.
Cases of contagious disease were isolated in tents erected in the edge of the pines opposite the present grand stand, beyond the race track. The lower illustration shows the barracks erected for the use of the troops before they were sent to the front. These buildings stood in the extreme east of the camp ground, on the brow of the hill overlooking South Main street.
There were 6. 0 rods or more in the rear and east of the present line of horse paddocks. As originally built they accommodated 2,0.
The tents in front were the guard tents, with the officers' tent at the right. The wide space between these two lines of building, including the present race track enclosure, was all open, and was used for drill and parade purposes. Dr. Phelps, before the war a professor in the Dartmouth College medical school, was the surgeon in charge of the hospital. William Austine was the mustering in officer. We are indebted for these details of descriptions to Comrade George E. Greene of Brattleboro, who was the chief hospital steward during nearly the whole period of the war.
Greene enlisted in the 1. Vermont, expecting to go to the front, but having some knowledge of medicine and of the care of the sick, he attracted the favorable attention of Dr. Phelps, who, acting on his own initiative, secured Mr. Greene's discharge as a volunteer and caused his appointment as a steward in the regular army. Vermont Phoenix, September 1. Howe photograph was given in February 1.
G. Sedgwick Post by Caleb's son, John C. Greene compares former hospital sites to the Valley Fair buildings shown here. Williams' house stood near Farm Products.
Phelps' surgeon's headquarters stood near the Floral Hall, with its cook house to the west and its ward to the south. Miller 1. 89. 5 Map. The central Dispensary with its fifty- foot high flagpole and flanking ranks of wards, all forming three sides of a hollow square with its grass plat, fences, lawns, and gravel walks, stood along Atwood Street half way between Fairground Road and Sunny Acres. The Assistant Surgeons' quarters, the Officer of the Guard house and guards' tents, and the Hospital Chapel to their west, stood in the crook in the road that now forms the roads Atwood and Sunny Acres. These buildings stood at a slight angle to the straight line of hospital buildings which adjoined to the north. Moses, Sarah, Luther, and Mary Bardwell had owned this land.
The Bardwell Brook was also then called the Cascade Brook, for its scenic waterfall attraction some distance eastward. This stream has been called Venter's Brook since Fort Dummer times, quite possibly for the Fort Orange (Albany) merchant family Van der Venter. The pest house stood at the eastern extremity of the camp grounds, in an isolated rectangular area within the pine woods, a short distance west from South Main Street and south from present Fairground Road. The barracks cemetery was likely here as well. William Austine told a Brattleboro Reformer reporter for his June 2.
These grounds are now the Brattleboro Department of Public Works. The Camp Holbrook ground was carefully chosen to be close to Brattleboro with its community and its railroad depot, and with the shortest possible supply lines to vital food and water sources in the surrounding farms- -- especially to the George Clark pastures and the William F.
Greene, the Hospital Steward and later a long- time Brattleboro pharmacist, recalled that the pest house stood at the eastern extremity of the camp grounds, sixty rods or more behind the barracks line. Sixty rods is nine hundred and ninety feet- -- into an isolated area, rectangular in shape, within the pine woods- -- Beers Atlas 1. Map. The . William Austine told a Brattleboro Reformer reporter for his June 2. It seems likely that the pest house stood a distance east from the barracks cemetery. Soldiers could still visit deceased friends at the cemetery adjoining the camp, without having to venture too near to the pest house. Military Hospital was situated, has been moved down near the Woolen Factory, there to be used as a bleachery. The concern of Frost & Goodhue- -- contracted to supply the U.
General Hospital- -- operated this woolen factory for years in the interests of the Jordan & Marsh Company, with John W. Frost & Goodhue purchased this woolen mill after the war in order to enlarge, repair, and set in steam power for use during low water. In the photograph from about 1. He awaits the Governor's requisition.
One of the early volunteers in this region, declared he'd been put under bonds twice within a year, for fighting; and he wanted just one chance to . A good stout son of Vulcan from hence, was rejected at the Navy Yard, because he lacked one front tooth wherewith to bite off cartridges. A patriotic pupil of Mrs. Partington, from this village, declares her readiness to go South to make . But, alas for their hopes! Cooper. Abraham Hines Cooper enlisted in Brattleboro on September 1.
United States Sharp Shooters, 1st Regiment, Company F. He was the son of Arad Cooper and Miranda Stebbins of Hinsdale, New Hampshire. Cooper was promoted to Corporal on May 1, 1. Sargent on December 1, 1. At Gettysburg on July 2, 1.
Sgt. Cooper followed his final orders to . In all my past service, it beat all I had ever seen for the number engaged and for so short a time. They were piled in heaps and across each other. I got to where the surgeons were dressing the wounded, I saw hundreds of men there. The doctor would hardly believe there were so few of us fighting them, thought we had a corps, as he never saw lead so thick in his life as it was in those woods. But when I told him who we were, said that accounted for it, as he claimed the Sharpshooters were the worst men we have to contend with. The four company 1st U.
S sent about one hundred soldiers into Pitzer's Woods with breech loading Sharps rifles. Gillett. Heman Henry Gillett was born on May 2. Henry Gillett and Hannah Wallace, in Thetford, Vermont. Gillett graduated from Dartmouth Medical School and moved to Corinth, Vermont, where he practiced medicine and represented Corinth in the State Legislature until the outbreak of the Civil War. Heman Gillett was commissioned Assistant Surgeon in the 8th Vermont Volunteers on December 1. Montpelier. He left immediately to attend to the sick soldiers in Camp Holbrook in Brattleboro. Benedict describes- -- Going into camp in the heart of a winter of unusual severity, many fell sick and Surgeon Gale and Assistant Surgeon Gillette, who had been commissioned on the 1.
December, found plenty of business on their hands. Within the first week in camp fifty men were placed in hospital. Measles and mumps ran through the regiment, and chills and fever and diptheria prostrated a few; but the men had good medical care and no deaths occurred. Assistant Surgeon Heman H. Gillett departed Brattleboro with the Eighth Regiment on March 4, 1. A, 8th Vermont Regiment. Orwell Blake was born on February 2.
Phillips, Maine and enlisted from Eden, Vermont in Co. A, Eighth Vermont Regiment. He mustered in on February 1. Brattleboro, remaining here until his regiment departed on March 4, 1. Orwell Blake's sketch, made some time during his two weeks in Brattleboro, shows the remnants of the twelve- foot high snow drifts at Camp Holbrook, and barracks standing near the present Fairground Road before they were shifted farther west in the camp ground.
George N. He enlisted in Grafton On September 1. Private in the 4th Vermont Infantry, Company F. He transferred to the Veterans Reserve Corps on September 3. January 1. 9, 1. 86. Charles Ross kept a diary during his residence in Brattleboro.
He describes Camp Holbrook, and the slight inconveniences there, which were soon exacerbated and then turned chaotic during the severe winter. These conditions virtually forced the United States Army to establish the United States General Hospital here. The Ross diary begins in 1. Sat. 1. 6Arrived at Brattleboro about 3 o'clock. I find the camp on a pleasant plane about a mile from town.