Original South Carolina Hospital Record - 130 Flag Truce Soldiers Feb & Mar 1865

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From the personal wartime 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.  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."
As Dr. LaFar fed Richmond on April 2nd during the evacuation fire, he took his personal records with him.  Among his records were the two listings of South Carolina soldiers who had been returned under Flag of Truce in the last days of the Confederacy.  This listing is one of those lists.  This one is "Returned So. Ca. Prisoners by Flag of Truce from [but not including) 17th Feby 1865 to 5th March 1865."  Another (not part of this listing was for those returned on just the 17th of February) was listed separately.
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Returned So. Ca. Prisoners by Flag of Truce from [but not including] the 17th Feby 1865 to 5th March 1865" listing that Dr. LaFar saved from destruction when the South Carolina Hospital Headquarters burned in the Richmond's Evacuation Fire on the night of April 2, 1865.  It is one about 8 1/2" x 11" sheet plus a second 4.25" x 5.5" sheet that have been folded (and cut in the instance of the second sheet) vertically to make six pages.  They may have been tipped into the Hospital's ledger.
There is one Staff Officer listed first (Captain W. M. Dwight, Kershaw's Staff) and then Soldiers are listed under their unit number--Infantry is first by number (members from 1st, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25 (a whopping 21 members), 27, 18th (noted as out of order), 1st Battalion Infantry, 1st Regiment Rifles, Holcomb Legion), Calvary second by number (members from 1st, 2, 3, 4 7th).  There are two columns under each unit number.  There are exactly 130 Confederate soldiers listed by Unit, then by last name, first name, then Company designation.
This is a rare, unpublished Official Record.
I found a nice reference to Captain W. M. Dwight - "
General Kershaw, on his promotion to Brigadier, surrounded himself with a staff of young men of unequalled ability, tireless, watchful, and brave to a fault. Captain C.R. Holmes, as Assistant Adjutant General, was promoted to that position from one of the Charleston companies. I fear no contradiction when I say he was one of the very best staff officers in the army, and had he been in line of promotion his merits would have demanded recognition and a much higher position given him.
Captain W.M. Dwight, as Adjutant and Inspector General, was also an officer of rare attainments. Cool and collected in battle, his presence always gave encouragement and confidence to the men under fire. He was captured at the Wilderness the 6th of May, 1864."
At a paid genealogy site, I found that Captain Dwight was commissioned as an officer in Company K of the 2nd Regiment of South Carolina Infantry (2nd Palmetto Regiment).  I also found the following:
Dwight, W. M., 1st lieut, Company K, 2d North Carolina Regiment; A. A. I. G. to Brig. Gen. Kershaw June, 1862, to June, 1863; capt., A. A. G. to Gen. Longstreet November 2, 1863 ; capt, A. A. G. to Gen. Conner, November, 1863.
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