Carver Hospital

Records, 1864 February 2-1865 May 2
218 pp.

Background note:

Born in Richmond, Vt., in 1838, Dr. Orland P. Sweet appears to have served as a surgeon at Carver Hospital, Washington, D.C., during the Civil War. Carver was one of numerous hospitals established in the capitol to deal with the flood tide of war casualties from the front. Sweet died in Lowell, Vt., on June 8, 1872.

Scope and Contents:

The Carver Hospital Records include terse entries for admissions and surgery performed during the last year of the war. There is no information in the volume identifying the hospital, however M[ichael] H. Barclay, Co. K, 7th New York Artillery, appears in an entry on page 109. In Pfisterer's compendium of Civil War regiments from New York, Barclay is recorded as having died at Carver.

Provenance:

The Carver Hospital Records were preserved in the family of Dr. Orlando Sweet until their donation to the Clements Library.

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