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Confederate Surgeon TA LaFar's unpublished memoir - pgs 7&8: Burning of Richmond
Confederate Surgeon TA LaFar's unpublished memoir - pgs 7&8: Burning of Richmond

Confederate Surgeon TA LaFar's unpublished memoir - pgs 7&8: Burning of Richmond

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    From the personal papers of Dr. Theodore. A. LaFar of Charleston, South Carolina (born 14 October 1831 in Charleston and died 28 December 1912 in Chattachoochee, Florida and buried in the French Protestant Huguenot Cemetery in Charleston).
    A Google search reveals the 1890 proceedings of the South Carolina legislature that accepted four South Carolina Confederate Battle Flags from Dr. LaFar on December 22, 1890 .  According to the minutes of the Legislature, LaFar had fled Richmond on April 2, 1865 and taken the flags with him.  The Legislature recognized and summarized his service as Director of the South Carolina Hospital Bureau ("SCHB").  Duties of the SCHB included "forwarding packages to soldiers in the field, establishing state hospitals, aiding prisoners in the hands of the enemy, receive the wounded after battle and to 'succor' a South Carolina soldier wherever found."
    Written sometime before his death in 1912, this 5 1/2" x 5 3/4" page is front and back and is in excellent condition, save for a small gouge at the top and a corner crease in the lower left.
    Content with no corrections "....mention that when I went to Barnwell to see about my mules they had taken.  I know that the soldiers were negroes commanded by Dutch officers tow of whome could speak but little English, it would be very difficult to describe my feelings when I saw them, but they treated me with resp4ect, and as I succeeded in getting my mules I felt repaid for my trouble.  It was twelve miles to the court house from Milliston.  I staid there one month then went back to Richmond, Va.  there I found the building had been destroyed by fire and nothing had been saved.  I learned that soon after I left Richmond the federal soldiers pillaged the building and next morning the fire consumed balance and nothing was saved, this was the building I occupied as the Bureau for two years, it was known as Duly Hat Factory before the war and I used it as the South Carolina Hospital Bureau this was the end of my work in Virginia from 1861 to 1865.  I can look back upon it as the greatest work of my life and thank my God that I was able to accomplish it and relieve the suffering of my fellow man."
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