Attached is a cropped newspaper page from the Galveston Weekly News with the underneath headline banner shown as "Houston, January 13, 1864" also attached.
It was emailed to me yesterday by Roger Wade who had bought two of Dr. Wm R. Robinson's letters online in 2009. He apparently got this at the Dolph Briscoe Collection in Austin, TX.
What's amazing about this is that it names 44 men who died, their regiment, company, disease and death date. As you will see, your Wm C. Hurst is shown as in Hardeman's Company D (Baylor's Brigade), died of typhoid, March 1, 1863. Now I can add all these new men on my Columbus Confederate Cemetery site at findagrave.com.
Also this collection, broken into three groups, shows men who died under, first. Dr. Robinson, then an acting surgeon, J. M. Anderson, then finally Dr. Rowan Green, who is in my book as taking Robinson's place last.
However, in checking all the dozen or so men whom I know died at Columbus, some are not on this list. Therefore I consider the list to not be complete, as the nurse soldier who kept a diary said by April 1863 he saw what was about 50 new graves. I also know soldiers probably continued to be at Columbus not only into 1864 but some were paroled there in April (or later) 1865.
Duane Helweg
July 12, 2017
It was emailed to me yesterday by Roger Wade who had bought two of Dr. Wm R. Robinson's letters online in 2009. He apparently got this at the Dolph Briscoe Collection in Austin, TX.
What's amazing about this is that it names 44 men who died, their regiment, company, disease and death date. As you will see, your Wm C. Hurst is shown as in Hardeman's Company D (Baylor's Brigade), died of typhoid, March 1, 1863. Now I can add all these new men on my Columbus Confederate Cemetery site at findagrave.com.
Also this collection, broken into three groups, shows men who died under, first. Dr. Robinson, then an acting surgeon, J. M. Anderson, then finally Dr. Rowan Green, who is in my book as taking Robinson's place last.
However, in checking all the dozen or so men whom I know died at Columbus, some are not on this list. Therefore I consider the list to not be complete, as the nurse soldier who kept a diary said by April 1863 he saw what was about 50 new graves. I also know soldiers probably continued to be at Columbus not only into 1864 but some were paroled there in April (or later) 1865.
Duane Helweg
July 12, 2017
Attached is a cropped newspaper page from the Galveston Weekly News with the underneath headline banner shown as "Houston, January 13, 1864" also attached.
It was emailed to me yesterday by Roger Wade who had bought two of Dr. Wm R. Robinson's letters online in 2009. He apparently got this at the Dolph Briscoe Collection in Austin, TX.
What's amazing about this is that it names 44 men who died, their regiment, company, disease and death date. As you will see, your Wm C. Hurst is shown as in Hardeman's Company D (Baylor's Brigade), died of typhoid, March 1, 1863. Now I can add all these new men on my Columbus Confederate Cemetery site at findagrave.com.
Also this collection, broken into three groups, shows men who died under, first. Dr. Robinson, then an acting surgeon, J. M. Anderson, then finally Dr. Rowan Green, who is in my book as taking Robinson's place last.
However, in checking all the dozen or so men whom I know died at Columbus, some are not on this list. Therefore I consider the list to not be complete, as the nurse soldier who kept a diary said by April 1863 he saw what was about 50 new graves. I also know soldiers probably continued to be at Columbus not only into 1864 but some were paroled there in April (or later) 1865.
Duane Helweg
July 12, 2017
It was emailed to me yesterday by Roger Wade who had bought two of Dr. Wm R. Robinson's letters online in 2009. He apparently got this at the Dolph Briscoe Collection in Austin, TX.
What's amazing about this is that it names 44 men who died, their regiment, company, disease and death date. As you will see, your Wm C. Hurst is shown as in Hardeman's Company D (Baylor's Brigade), died of typhoid, March 1, 1863. Now I can add all these new men on my Columbus Confederate Cemetery site at findagrave.com.
Also this collection, broken into three groups, shows men who died under, first. Dr. Robinson, then an acting surgeon, J. M. Anderson, then finally Dr. Rowan Green, who is in my book as taking Robinson's place last.
However, in checking all the dozen or so men whom I know died at Columbus, some are not on this list. Therefore I consider the list to not be complete, as the nurse soldier who kept a diary said by April 1863 he saw what was about 50 new graves. I also know soldiers probably continued to be at Columbus not only into 1864 but some were paroled there in April (or later) 1865.
Duane Helweg
July 12, 2017
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