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{"value"=>"337736", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1862-1866", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1862/1866"}
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{"value"=>"I. Washington Hospital Directory"}
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{"format"=>"simple", "value"=>"74 boxes, 65 volumes"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The first and Central Office of the USSC's Hospital Directory was located at 244 F Street, Washington, DC. It was distinct from the USSC's Central Office, although both were housed in the same building. John Bowne was appointed General Superintendent of the Hospital Directory and was charged with establishing its recordkeeping system and opening several regional offices. He also headed the Washington office, which opened to the public in November, 1862. Bowne then established offices in Louisville, Kentucky; New York City and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Louisville opened to the public in January, 1863; New York and Philadelphia followed in March. All reported to the Washington office. During that period, the Washington office was supervised by Edward Abbott. H.H. Beebe, Frank Dunphe, and numerous others served as clerks. John Bowne resigned from the USSC in late April, 1865. He was succeeded as Superintendent by Darius Forbes, agent for the USSC's Army & Navy Claim Agency (April-May 1865), Francis Fowler, an Assistant Secretary of the Eastern Department (May-September 1865) and by E.S. Brooke as Clerk (September-November 1865). In February, 1864, the New York Hospital Directory office closed, and its records were sent to Washington. The Washington Hospital Directory generally collected hospital reports for the District of Columbia, eastern Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana, adding New York, New Jersey and the New England states when the New York office closed.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Washington Hospital Directory records, 1862-1866, consist of letters and reports, application records, hospital and death records, and general office records.</p> <p>Letters and reports contain the combined general correspondence of the Washington and New York Hospital Directory offices, largely interoffice communications concerning administrative procedures, efforts to document the sick and wounded after major battles, and the status of inquiries. Outgoing correspondence consists of copies of letters sent by Washington office staff, mostly to soldiers' relatives and friends concerning their inquiries. Reports on Hospital Directory activities, submitted to or written by John Bowne, are also present.</p> <p>Application records comprise the combined letter of inquiry files of the Washington and New York offices, and the Washington Office's related journals, registers and indexes used to record and track inquiry work.</p> <p>Hospital directories for the Washington office, nearly 60 oversize volumes in number, and index volumes form the bulk of the Hospital and death records. Also present are materials relating to deaths at Andersonville prison, casualty statistics for Chancellorsville, plots of burials in two soldiers' cemeteries in Virginia, as well as daily hospital reports, reports of deaths in hospitals, and reports of sick and wounded.</p> <p>General office records are listings of Army hospitals and military personnel compiled by staff for reference purposes.</p> <p>New York correspondence and inquiry files are not inclusive; see also New York Hospital Directory records, Series II.</p>"}
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1862
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1862
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1866
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1862
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1866