Mr. Robinson,
I thought you might find this interesting if you've not seen it already. From a fellow prisoner at Camp Morton, E.A. Jackson had this to say about your gt. grandfather.
...Dr. S.W. Robinson of Miss., a physician and prisoner said that he would show them. He placed one of the dead bodies on a disecting table and the examination showed the intestines were eaten as full of holes as a sieve. This Dr. S. W. Robinson who was a member of the 28th Mississippi Calvary and from Rankin Co. was really one of the most important men in Camp Morton and a genuine hero. He acted as Secretary for Dr. Todd of Indianapolis who was one of the contract surgeons for the prison. .....He was in fact Assistant surgeon without rank or pay. During his long imprisonment (22 months) he devoted his entire time and energies, night and day to the relief of the sick and suffering Confederates, in and out of the hospital. No labor was too great if performed in this discharge of his self appointed task. There can be no estimate of the good that he did. Hundreds who survived the attacks of illness that put them in the hospital owe their good fortune to his vigilance and skillful treatment. No, preist, no Sister of Charity, was ever more self sacrifcing in devotion to only____. He was indeed a veritable masculine Florence Nightingate. Yet it is hardly to be supposed that his name was ever mentioned in the dispatches for his modesty was always equal to his humanity and that was always equal to any demands that could be made upon it. Thus it is there that the greatest depths of human misery and sorrow are often unredeemed by the exhibition of the noblest attributes of humanity.
I found your post while looking for information about Dr. Robinison. I also saw that you have a copy of an article I would be interested in getting a copy of. Could you please contact me off list at
vcasteel@yahoo.com and I will gladly explain my interest in your ancestor.
Thank you, Vicki
P. 34,35,36 The Daily Clarion, Jackson, MS Tribute to Dr. S. W. ROBINSON
, (Sylvanus Wheeler ROBINSON b1837 SC - d 1908 Fannin, MS) - submitted
by James L. ROBINSON of Redmond, WA.
"ROBINSON FAMILY JOURNAL"
Index Vol. 4, No. 2
ISSN #1077-5358
Apr/May 1995
Issue #8