From the Richmond Enquirer, 6/16/1864
THE WINDER HOSPITAL is the largest in the Confederacy, containing six
separate divisions, each accommodating four hundred and fifty patients, under
the control of a Division Surgeon. Tents, for seven hundred patients, have been
recently raised for convalescents. Surgeon A. G. Lane, by whom the hospital was
organized in the Spring of 1862, is in charge. The number of beds in each ward
of the hospital has been lately increased one-third; this will make the capacity
of the hospital, including the tents, 4300. The hospital has been recently
re-modeled and repaired. The improvements add greatly to its convenience. It is
healthily located, and supplied by wells with clear, cold, pleasant water. –
Has a register, bath house, library, and a bakery at which the whole of the
bread for the hospital is baked. The first division of the hospital is assigned
to the accommodation of soldiers from Georgia, and the remaining five to those
from North Carolina. There are now 2129 patients in the hospital under
treatment.
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