NC935

Stampless PAID cover with a full strike of the Goldsborough NC CDS 18 MAY and handstamp PAID 10 Type C. "Med Purveyor's Office Goldsboro NC" manuscript in the right upper corner. Addressed to Doct H. H. Harris, Fair Grounds Hospital, Raleigh NC Care of Surg E. B. Haywood. Very Fine. The Fair Grounds Hospital was the first NC state military hospital for soldiers established in Raleigh later known as General Hospital #7. Surgeon Edmund Burke Haywood (1825-1894), an 1849 graduate of the University of Pennyslvania Medical School and a prominent surgeon practicing in Raleigh, established the hospital in 1861 and was the Surgeon-in-Charge. He would later serve as the Sugeon-in-Charge of General Hospital #13 and had various other assignments as a Surgeon in the Confederate Army including serving as the chief of the medical examination board. After the war, he returned to his private practice in Raleigh. No information on Doctor H. H. Harris.

$250.00

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