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James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 14: (search)
cal officers alone can be accorded commendation for their removal. Hospitals with capacity for the care of the large number of sick had been provided at Nashville, with all needed appliances. Intelligent medical officers, aided by the noble women of that city, had made them not only inviting, but a positive luxury to the sick. But they were hastily broken up and the sick transferred to other points. When Gen. A. S. Johnston assumed command of the department, his medical director, Dr. D. W. Yandell of Kentucky, a Tennesseean by birth and education, a very able and accomplished man, assumed direction of the hospital service of the State and controlled it with great success. On the fall of General Johnston and the assignment of General Bragg to the command of the army, Dr. A. J. Foard, medical director on his staff, became the supreme authority. When General Johnston retired from Nashville he gave orders to Dr. Samuel H. Stout, already detailed to hospital duty at Nashville, to