Consisting of partially printed forms as specified in War Department Regulations for the Medical Department of the C.S. Army, each page with 14 columns and titled "Morning Report of the Surgeon of a Regiment, Post or Garrison," approximately 100 pp., folio (16.5 x 8 in.), three-quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt title plate on spine reading "MOR'NG / REPT. / OF S'K / & / W'NDE," spans the period May 15, 1862 - April 30, 1865. The anonymous keeper(s) of this book daily recorded the size, location and, starting in 1864, the allegiance of the hospital population when federal prisoners are listed as well. Danville Va is inscribed on the first page for 1865-- a location that is consistent with the recorded dates of operation. Included with the hospital ledger is a collection of 19th century ephemera associated with the Sutherland family of Union Hall, Franklin County, Virginia.

Considerable wear and moderate warping to the boards; internally good with only light, scattered damp stains; most ledger pages are clean, however some are used after the war for handwriting practice by Samuel Sutherland; once-blank pages in the back of the book were also used by young Sutherland for romantic musings, poetry and prose.

$400 - 800