Confederate medical laboratory, Columbia
Laboratory, Columbia, South Carolina.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Laboratory
- Where
- Columbia, South Carolina
- Years
- 1863-1865
CONFEDERATE MEDICAL LABORATORY
Under Joseph LeConte, from 1863, this laboratory was one of the only domestic sources of medical supplies for the Confederacy. LeConte was ordered to pack the works for Richmond on February 10, 1865. Union troops destroyed the laboratory on February 18 and 19.
Then
From 1863 Columbia was one of the only domestic sources of medical supplies for the Confederacy, under Joseph LeConte. It was one of at least five Confederate laboratories making drugs.
LeConte was ordered on February 10, 1865, to pack the works for Richmond. Union troops destroyed the medical laboratory on February 18 and 19, 1865.
Now
Lines owned by CSX and Norfolk Southern run through Columbia today.
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