Raleigh’s Confederate Hospitals

SUBMITTED BY:  JC Knowles (edited by Cheri Todd Molter, vetted by Hallie Smith) The first state hospital was established at the old State Fairgrounds off of New Bern Avenue and was headed by Raleigh surgeon E. Burke Haywood. It was called the Fairground Hospital until...

Lawrence O’Bryan Branch

SUBMITTED BY:  JC Knowles Lawrence O’Bryan Branch was born at Enfield, North Carolina on November 28, 1820. When he was five years old, his mother died. After her death, he and his father moved to Tennessee where his father then died in 1827. Following his father’s...

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