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.  

The researcher has found a statement in Goodspeed's History of Tennessee Counties (1887) that claims that the Exchange Hotel was a Confederate hospital, but he's looking for a more contempory source.  He's also going to examine the Bristol Southern Advocate newspaper (microfilm,March 1862-March 1863) to see if he can find any references.  If anyone knows of additional primary sources that could be consulted please let us know.  Thanks.

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