Confederate Hospital

The hospital at Newton depended on its neighbors. Roger Williams Doolittle's daughters nursed the sick and wounded, and a field hospital stood on the family's plantation. When soldiers died, Doolittle offered the family burying ground for them. His daughter Julia met Dr. Albert Puckett of Nashville, a Confederate army surgeon there, and they married on 8 July 1863. Earlier that spring, on 24 April, Union raiders burned a commissary house on the hospital grounds, though Colonel Blackburn first had the captured trains moved away from the hospital buildings.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Dunn's Falls Water Park — 21 mi
  A 65-foot waterfall on the Chunky River built in the 1850s by an Irish immigrant, with a working water wheel and an 1857 grist mill, south of Meridian.
• Highland Park Dentzel Carousel — 26 mi
  The last two-row stationary Dentzel menagerie in the world, in its original carousel house in Meridian's Highland Park, a National Historic Landmark since 1987.

More markers nearby

• Grierson's Raid — steps away
• Sherman at Decatur — 8.8 mi
• Medgar Evers — 8.8 mi
• James Oliver Eastland — 17 mi