Civil War Resources at Wilson Special Collections Library: Medicine

In both Health Sciences Library History Collection Vault and Rare Book Collection at Wilson Special Collections Library.

This collection of medical and dental instruments, pharmacy items, and other related materials was acquired by the Health Sciences Library from a variety of donors and sources. Many items in this collection have been on display in the library at various times. Items continue to be added to the collection and the inventory is under constant revision, and should not be considered complete. Museum Item 291-525 is a Civil War era Surgical Kit.
Located in the Health Sciences Library History Collection Archives.

Register, 1860-1862, of Barbee's Hotel, High Point, N.C.; register, 1863-1865, of that hotel as a Confederate wayside hospital, listing soldiers' names, complaints, and treatment; and a volume, 1864, from the 2nd North Carolina Hospital at Petersburg, Va., giving names of patients and medicine and diet prescribed.

Samuel Hollingsworth Stout was born in Tennessee and served as the organizer and medical director of the Hospital Department of the Confederate Army in Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana. After the war, Stout worked as a physician in Georgia and Tennessee and, in the 1890s, as Texas Commissioner of Education.

Official and personal correspondence, reports, receipts, certificates, and other materials relating to Samuel Hollingsworth Stout's work with the Hospital Department of the Confederate Army of Tennessee during the Civil War. There are also scattered items that pertain to Stout's postwar work as a doctor in Georgia and Tennessee and as Commissioner of Education in Texas in the 1890s.