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{"value"=>"338000", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1861-1865", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1861/1865"}
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{"value"=>"IV. Louisville Hospital Directory"}
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{"format"=>"simple", "value"=>"5 boxes, 53 volumes, 1 oversize folder"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Located at the headquarters of the USSC's Western Department in Louisville, Kentucky, the Louisville Hospital Directory was responsible for hospital directory activities in that Department. It generally collected hospital reports for West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas. Entries for patients in hospitals in other locations are also found. Henry S. Holbrook was Superintendent of the Louisville office from its opening in January, 1863 to its closing in late 1865, and oversaw the transfer of its records to the USSC Historical Bureau in New York.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Louisville Hospital Directory records consist of hospital records; hospital directory registers and indexes, death and burial records; records concerning prisoners of war, and miscellaneous volumes.</p> <p>Hospital records, 1861-1865, consist chiefly of hospital reports for U.S. Army General Hospitals, 1865, and Hospital Directory registers and index volumes, 1863-1865. Also present are a list of hospitals reporting to the Louisville Hospital Directory; a list of names of patients received in Hospital No. 4, Louisville, Kentucky; a register containing patient lists and other records for hospitals at Munfordville and Woodsonville, Kentucky; and a census of St. Louis hospitals.</p> <p>Hospital Directory registers have a different arrangement of information than other Directory office registers. Louisville recorded patient information in register volumes primarily dedicated to volunteer regiments of a single state and all entries are in numerical order by regiment number. For volumes containing multiple states, all entries for a single state are grouped together. States may span several volumes. The Louisville Hospital Directory apparently did not number their registers; the listing of volumes follows the USSC's 1878 arrangement. This may reflect the Directory's original arrangement, since the sequence of states is similar to the geographical arrangement of records used by the Statistical Bureau.</p> <p>Death and burial records are mainly Directory office registers recording the deaths, and occasionally burials, of individuals, by state. Also present are lists of burials at particular cemeteries in Tennessee. Prisoner of war records are largely bound lists relating to the transfer or death of both union and confederate soldiers held as prisoners of war. Miscellaneous volumes consist of hospital records and hospital directories recording the status of soldiers at an unidentified location or locations, with entries denoting a strong connection to Chattanooga and the Atlanta Campaign.</p> <p>Louisville Hospital Directory records as originally arranged included records of the Western Department's Chattanooga agency, which are now located in that record group. Many of their activities supported the work of the Louisville Hospital Directory and should also be consulted. Hospital and other records emanating from locations which could not be fully confirmed remain in this record group as Miscellaneous Volumes.</p>"}
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1861
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1861
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1865
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1861
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1865