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Abstract
Sloan General Hospital was a Union Army hospital, located in Montpelier, Vt. and was in operation between May 1864 and October 1865.
Dates
- Creation: 1857-1866
Extent
1.2 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
Creator
- Sloan U.S. Army General Hospital (Organization)
Physical Location
Materials stored onsite. History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine
Language of Materials
Collection materials primarily in English
Restrictions
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Historical Note
In the fall of 1863, a site in Montpelier was chosen to erect Vermont's third Civil War hospital. Named after U.S. Army Surgeon William J. Sloan, it had a capacity of 500 in its 25 wards. It operated for 16 months (June 1864-Oct. 1865) and treated approximately 1,670 soldiers. Surgeon Henry Janes, U.S.V. became commander on October 12, 1864, relieving Asst. Surgeon George P. Jaquette. Janes joined the 3rd Vermont in 1861 as the regimental surgeon, and later was given a commission as surgeon of US Volunteers. Following the battle of Gettysburg, Janes was given charge of all the military hospitals in the Gettysburg region - being in charge of some 20,000 wounded soldiers. He then returned to Vermont to take charge of Sloan Hospital.
The hospital was of the pavilion style, in favor with the Surgeon General's office. It's buildings radiated from an octagonal central space, around the whole of which was a covered platform or pathway connecting the whole. The buildings were of wood, lathed and plastered, clap-boarded, shingled and double floored. By December, 1864, there would be 421 patients in this hospital.
Collection Summary
Two order books, hospital reports, vouchers, receipts and correspondence document the hospital's activities between May 1864 and October 1865.
Abstract
Sloan General Hospital was a Union Army hospital, located in Montpelier, Vt. and was in operation between May 1864 and October 1865.
Physical Location
Materials stored onsite. History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine
Provenance
The collection was acquired in September 1986 from Printer's Devil.
General
- Processed by
- Karen Pitts and Peter B. Hirtle
- Processing completed in
- 1986
- Encoded by
- Dan Jenkins
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Sloan U.S. Army General Hospital Records, 1857-1866
- Status
- Edited Full Draft
- Author
- Karen Pitts and Peter B. Hirtle
- Date
- 1986; 2000
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latn
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English
- Edition statement
- Version 1.0
Revision Statements
- July 2004: PUBLIC "-//National Library of Medicine::History of Medicne Division//TEXT (US::DNLM::MS C 434::Sloan U.S. Army General Hospital Records)//EN" "sloan" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15).
Collecting Area Details
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