Was a surgeon in the United States Navy and Confederate States Army,15th Virginia Cavalry.In June of 1863, through Major Oscar F. Baxter, Jr. MD., he was authorized by the Secretary of War to organize a company of partisan rangers in Princess Anne County, to harass the Union forces around the county and in the Norfolk area, Known as the Burroughs' battalion Partisan Rangers, they were very successful throughout Princess Anne, Currituck County of North Carolina and along the Atlantic seaboard of both states.
Oscar F. Baxter, a surgeon in the Confederate Army tells of his posting to Chaffin's Farm in a letter from Richmond dated June 6, 1864 to his twelve-year-old daughter. (Dr. Baxter, a native of Camden County, North Carolina, was a widower; his daughter was being cared for by relatives.)
I am about to get off for Chaffin's Farm, about 10 miles from Richmond. I received orders the 1st of June, but have been too unwell to obey them till this morning...I have been worked down and there is no end of it--I have never seen so many badly wounded men together as I have seen in the Yankee Hospital--800 or more all desperately wounded. My hands have been in dreadful condition from wounds received in operating on them. The fighting is still going on near Rich--
Two months later, in an August 18th letter to his daughter from "Post hospital, Chaffin's Bluff," Dr. Baxter describes the locale.
I have just learnt the probable cause of the miscarriage of your letters. I am at Chaffin's Bluff and not Chaffin's Farm, where I was first ordered. The Headquarters of both Bluff and farm are all in sight - half or threequarters of a mile apart...
In a letter to her dated the previous day (August 17th), he hopes to get a few days furlough after this demonstration of the Yanks is over.
Later in that letter, he describes the fighting going on around him.
The Yanks are very near here, have been fighting for two days--shot and shell flying all in sight of my hospital. It is possible I shall have to move out of the building tomorrow.
(The actual letters from which the above excerpts are taken are in the possession of Dr. Baxter's great-grandson, who lives in Baltimore County, Maryland. Earlier, Dr. Baxter had been an assistant surgeon in the United States Navy; excerpts from a letter to his fiancée dated October 1, 1846, posted from the Pensacola, Florida navy yard, where his ship, the frigate Potomac had called en route to the U.S.-Mexican War are included in that article under the section "Letter from a Naval surgeon on board the frigate 'Potomac' en route to Mexico." When North Carolina seceded from the Union at the time of the Civil War, he joined the Confederate army.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaffin's_Bluff
Oscar F. Baxter, a surgeon in the Confederate Army tells of his posting to Chaffin's Farm in a letter from Richmond dated June 6, 1864 to his twelve-year-old daughter. (Dr. Baxter, a native of Camden County, North Carolina, was a widower; his daughter was being cared for by relatives.)
I am about to get off for Chaffin's Farm, about 10 miles from Richmond. I received orders the 1st of June, but have been too unwell to obey them till this morning...I have been worked down and there is no end of it--I have never seen so many badly wounded men together as I have seen in the Yankee Hospital--800 or more all desperately wounded. My hands have been in dreadful condition from wounds received in operating on them. The fighting is still going on near Rich--
Two months later, in an August 18th letter to his daughter from "Post hospital, Chaffin's Bluff," Dr. Baxter describes the locale.
I have just learnt the probable cause of the miscarriage of your letters. I am at Chaffin's Bluff and not Chaffin's Farm, where I was first ordered. The Headquarters of both Bluff and farm are all in sight - half or threequarters of a mile apart...
In a letter to her dated the previous day (August 17th), he hopes to get a few days furlough after this demonstration of the Yanks is over.
Later in that letter, he describes the fighting going on around him.
The Yanks are very near here, have been fighting for two days--shot and shell flying all in sight of my hospital. It is possible I shall have to move out of the building tomorrow.
(The actual letters from which the above excerpts are taken are in the possession of Dr. Baxter's great-grandson, who lives in Baltimore County, Maryland. Earlier, Dr. Baxter had been an assistant surgeon in the United States Navy; excerpts from a letter to his fiancée dated October 1, 1846, posted from the Pensacola, Florida navy yard, where his ship, the frigate Potomac had called en route to the U.S.-Mexican War are included in that article under the section "Letter from a Naval surgeon on board the frigate 'Potomac' en route to Mexico." When North Carolina seceded from the Union at the time of the Civil War, he joined the Confederate army.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaffin's_Bluff
Was a surgeon in the United States Navy and Confederate States Army,15th Virginia Cavalry.In June of 1863, through Major Oscar F. Baxter, Jr. MD., he was authorized by the Secretary of War to organize a company of partisan rangers in Princess Anne County, to harass the Union forces around the county and in the Norfolk area, Known as the Burroughs' battalion Partisan Rangers, they were very successful throughout Princess Anne, Currituck County of North Carolina and along the Atlantic seaboard of both states.
Oscar F. Baxter, a surgeon in the Confederate Army tells of his posting to Chaffin's Farm in a letter from Richmond dated June 6, 1864 to his twelve-year-old daughter. (Dr. Baxter, a native of Camden County, North Carolina, was a widower; his daughter was being cared for by relatives.)
I am about to get off for Chaffin's Farm, about 10 miles from Richmond. I received orders the 1st of June, but have been too unwell to obey them till this morning...I have been worked down and there is no end of it--I have never seen so many badly wounded men together as I have seen in the Yankee Hospital--800 or more all desperately wounded. My hands have been in dreadful condition from wounds received in operating on them. The fighting is still going on near Rich--
Two months later, in an August 18th letter to his daughter from "Post hospital, Chaffin's Bluff," Dr. Baxter describes the locale.
I have just learnt the probable cause of the miscarriage of your letters. I am at Chaffin's Bluff and not Chaffin's Farm, where I was first ordered. The Headquarters of both Bluff and farm are all in sight - half or threequarters of a mile apart...
In a letter to her dated the previous day (August 17th), he hopes to get a few days furlough after this demonstration of the Yanks is over.
Later in that letter, he describes the fighting going on around him.
The Yanks are very near here, have been fighting for two days--shot and shell flying all in sight of my hospital. It is possible I shall have to move out of the building tomorrow.
(The actual letters from which the above excerpts are taken are in the possession of Dr. Baxter's great-grandson, who lives in Baltimore County, Maryland. Earlier, Dr. Baxter had been an assistant surgeon in the United States Navy; excerpts from a letter to his fiancée dated October 1, 1846, posted from the Pensacola, Florida navy yard, where his ship, the frigate Potomac had called en route to the U.S.-Mexican War are included in that article under the section "Letter from a Naval surgeon on board the frigate 'Potomac' en route to Mexico." When North Carolina seceded from the Union at the time of the Civil War, he joined the Confederate army.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaffin's_Bluff
Oscar F. Baxter, a surgeon in the Confederate Army tells of his posting to Chaffin's Farm in a letter from Richmond dated June 6, 1864 to his twelve-year-old daughter. (Dr. Baxter, a native of Camden County, North Carolina, was a widower; his daughter was being cared for by relatives.)
I am about to get off for Chaffin's Farm, about 10 miles from Richmond. I received orders the 1st of June, but have been too unwell to obey them till this morning...I have been worked down and there is no end of it--I have never seen so many badly wounded men together as I have seen in the Yankee Hospital--800 or more all desperately wounded. My hands have been in dreadful condition from wounds received in operating on them. The fighting is still going on near Rich--
Two months later, in an August 18th letter to his daughter from "Post hospital, Chaffin's Bluff," Dr. Baxter describes the locale.
I have just learnt the probable cause of the miscarriage of your letters. I am at Chaffin's Bluff and not Chaffin's Farm, where I was first ordered. The Headquarters of both Bluff and farm are all in sight - half or threequarters of a mile apart...
In a letter to her dated the previous day (August 17th), he hopes to get a few days furlough after this demonstration of the Yanks is over.
Later in that letter, he describes the fighting going on around him.
The Yanks are very near here, have been fighting for two days--shot and shell flying all in sight of my hospital. It is possible I shall have to move out of the building tomorrow.
(The actual letters from which the above excerpts are taken are in the possession of Dr. Baxter's great-grandson, who lives in Baltimore County, Maryland. Earlier, Dr. Baxter had been an assistant surgeon in the United States Navy; excerpts from a letter to his fiancée dated October 1, 1846, posted from the Pensacola, Florida navy yard, where his ship, the frigate Potomac had called en route to the U.S.-Mexican War are included in that article under the section "Letter from a Naval surgeon on board the frigate 'Potomac' en route to Mexico." When North Carolina seceded from the Union at the time of the Civil War, he joined the Confederate army.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaffin's_Bluff
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