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James Booker was admitted to Richmond General Hospital #18 on March 2, 1862 with chronic diarrhea (Gregory, 82.) He was released from Greaner's Hospital on March 23, 1862 (Confederate Military Records of John and James Booker).

For information on Civil War medicine in general see Robert E. Denney, Civil War Medicine: Care and Comfort of the Wounded (New York: Sterling Pub., 1994) and for Confederate medical care in particular, see Confederate Medicine, 1861-1865 (Richmond: Medical Society of Virginia, 1961).

Colonel Edward C. Edmonds was given charge of the 38th Regiment on June 12 1861. He was killed in "Pickett's Charge" at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863 (Gregory, 1.)

At the time this letter was written, the 38th Regiment was in Warrenton, VA, staying in the Fauquier County Courthouse and the Warren-Green Hotel (Gregory, 11.)