A couple of thoughts come to mind:
Museum of the Confederacy
Look for a chapter of either the Sons or Daughters of the Confederacy in
the area. They are usually well informed on the local confederate history.

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Robert Vejnar <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I am assisting a researcher who is trying to locate sources that could
> help him in his search to confirm that the Exchange Hotel in Bristol was
> used as a Confederate hospital during the war.  He has located the
> Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal (1864) which includes
> Bristol in the list of hospital sites, but it doesn't say anything about
> what building was used as the actual hospital.  I have found an obituary in
> the 4 March 1864 Abingdon Virginian which states a Wilson P. McReynolds of
> the 21st Va. Cavalry died "in the Hospital at Bristol, Va., on the 15th day
> of Dec., 1863", but it doesn't say the hotel was being used as a hospital.





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