Confederate Dead and Hospitals-GHM 107-6-Newton Co
Posted by: Sprinterman
N 33° 35.567 W 083° 51.361
17S E 234958 N 3720662
Confederate Cemetery, Conyers and Davis Sts, Covington
Waymark Code: WM6W66
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 07/26/2009
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Here sleep 67 known and 8 unknown Confederate heroes, men who died of disease and wounds in the several Confederate hospitals located here. Many of those who died were reburied elsewhere.
In 1862, 1863, 1864, the Hill, Hood, Lumpkin, and Receiving Hospitals were located in Covington. Thirty new hospital buildings not yet occupied, were destroyed in Garrard´s raid, July 22- 24, 1864, as was other valuable hospital equipment. Hospitals were under the immediate supervision of Samuel H. Stout, Medical Director Army of Tennessee. More than 20,000 Confederates were treated in them
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 107-6
Date: 1956
Sponsor: GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION
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