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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), History of Chimborazo hospital, C. S. A. From the News leader, January 7, 1909. (search)
ngs, and subject to surgeons of divisions, and all subject to Surgeon James B. McCaw, in charge of executive head. With natural drainage, the best conceivable on the east, south and west; good water supply; five large ice houses; Russian bath house; cleanliness and excellent system of removal of wastes, the best treatment, comforts and result in a military hospital in times of war were secured. In 1861 there was on what is now known as Chimborazo Park or Hill one house, owned by a Richard Laughton, and a small office building. For the purpose of making the hospital an independent institution, the secretary of war made Chimborazo hospital an army post, and Dr. McCaw was made commandant; an officer and thirty men were stationed there, and everything conducted selon de regles. As the commandant, Surgeon McCaw was not in the regular army of the Confederacy, the surgeon-general said: I do not know what name to give the hospital or its chief. Not wishing to call it a general hos