624 Norta Caroiina Troops, 1861-’65.

Second North Carolina Hospital in Petersburg with Surgeon
W. C. Warren in charge, and Drs. W. H. Hall and W. A.
Norcom Assistant Surgeons. These hospitals were furnished
with the best of everything that could be obtained and were
for the North Carolina troops. Each hospital could ae-
commodate about two hundred and fifty patients.

When the first hospital was opened, three ladies who, with
others, had volunteered their services, were selected as head
nurses. These ladies were Mrs. Kennedy, of Wilmington;
Miss M. L. Pettigrew, of Raleigh, and Mrs. Beasley, of Ply-
mouth.

Dr. Johnson also established a hospital in Richmond with
Surgeon O. F. Manson in charge, in the Spring of 1862. This
was a hospital, home and supply store, for the troops.

Wayside Hospitals for the reception and care of the sick
and wounded soldiers, on their way home and return to the
army were established in the summer of 1862 at Weldon,
Goldsboro, Tarboro, Raleigh, Salisbury and Charlotte. These
were continued until replaced by General Hospitals in Sep-
tember, 1862, when all of the North Carolina Hospitals in
Virginia and North Carolina, by an agreement between Gov-
ernor Olark and the Secretary of War, were turned over to
the Confederate States, with all the furniture and equipment
of every kind.

Having turned over all the Hospitals and hospital supplies
to the Confederate States, Surgeon-General Johnson resigned
13 September, 1862. While Surgeon-General, Dr. Johnson
with a corps of assistants, visited every battle field in Virginia,
taking with him medicines and supplies of every kind for the
sick and wounded soldiers. He was devoted to the care, the
relief and welfare of the soldiers during his term of office.
He had made the best arrangements in hospitals and out of
them for the care and treatment of the soldiers, better than
had been done by any other State. He resigned because in
his judgment there was nothing more for him to do.

Soon after the inauguration of Governor Vance, Septem-
ber, 1862, he appointed Surgeon Edward Warren Surgeon-
General, and he served until the end of the war, in April,
1865, at the suggestion of Adjutant-General J. G. Martin.

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Governor Vance in behalf of the State, to obtain medical
and surgical supplies, and clothes, shoes and food for the sol-
diers and such tools and articles as were absolutely needed by
the people, inaugurated a system of running the blockade be-
tween Wilmington and Bermuda. By this arrangement he
was enabled to get the supplies needed for the soldiers and
keep them better clothed and supplied than the soldiers of any
other State; also articles necessary for the cotton and woolen
manufactories to keep them running and hand ecards for the
good women, to enable them to continue their good work of
spinning and weaving cloth for their own families and some
for the soldiers. This was a very great blessing to the sol-
diers, as well as to the citizens of the State.

The Confederate Government had established General Hos-
pitals, one at Wilson, one at Goldsboro and two at Wilming-
ton during the Spring and Summer of 1862. During the Win-
ter of 1862 and 1863 the Confederate Congress passed a law
authorizing the establishment of General Hospital Districts
in each State; each State being a district, and the appoint-
ment of a Medical Director of General Hospitals in each
State.

Surgeon Covey was appointed Medical Director of the hos-
pitals in North Carolina in the Spring of 1863, and had
charge of them until September of the same year, when he
was relieved by Surgeon P. E. Hines, by order of the Sec-
retary of War. When Dr. Covey was relieved, he did not
leave even a memorandum of anything concerning the hospi-
tals, not even the names or where located, or their number.

Surgeon Hines soon ascertained that there were two Gen-
eral Hospitals in Raleigh, Surgeons E. Burke Haywood and
Thomas H. Hill being the Surgeons in charge; one at Wil-
son, Surgeon 8. S. Satchwell in charge; and one at Goldsboro,
Surgeon John F. Hill in charge; two at Wilmington, Sur
geons T. R. Micks and J. C. Walker in charge; a Wayside
Hospital at Weldon, one at Goldsboro, one at Tarboro, Sur-
geon J. W. Jones in charge; one at Salisbury, with Dr. M.
Whitehead in charge, and a hospital in the prison there with
Surgeon J. W. Hall in charge. It was thought that a Gen-
eral Hospital was also being built there, which proved to be

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