Confederate Hospitals

Here in 1862-1863 were located several Confederate hospitals - The Foard, The General, The Bragg, and The Buckner. The Courthouse, Napier's Hotel, two

Churches, several warehouses, and temporary buildings were also used as hospitals. More than 20,000 sick and wounded Confederates ...

Confederate (Second) Alabama Hospital

Also known as Yarbrough's factory,

Turpin's factory. Original building

Richmond Civil War Centennial Committee

1965

Historic Building

Built 1853

Yarbrough Turpin Tobacco Factory

1853 - 1909

Pohlig Bros. Paper Box Company

1909 -

Used as hospital during Civil War

Marker is at the intersection of North 25th Street and East Franklin ...

Weston State Hospital

The oldest State institution in West Virginia was authorized by an act of General Assembly of Virginia, March 22, 1858. The War Between the States delayed construction. It was not opened for patients until October 22, 1864.

Marker is at the ...

Weston State Hospital

The oldest State institution in West Virginia was authorized by an act of General Assembly of Virginia, March 22, 1858. The War Between the States delayed construction. It was not opened for patients until October 22, 1864.

Marker is at the ...

Pennhurst State School and Hospital

Between 1908 and 1987, more than 10,500 Pennsylvanians with developmental disabilities lived here. Public controversy over the inhumane treatment of residents and two decades of complex litigation, including three arguments before the US Supreme Court, led to the institution’s closure. ...

Hospitals in Frederick

Caring for the Wounded

In this building, soldiers who died in one of the many area hospitals following the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, Gettysburg, and Moncacy were embalmed and prepared for interment at nearby Mount Olivet Cemetery or for shipment ...

A Vast Hospital

Wounded Union Soldiers in a Fredericksburg yard, May 1864. All but one of these men have been wounded in the leg. Most of the wounded soldiers brought to Fredericksburg survived…

…But some did not. Hundreds of men died in the hospitals ...

Charity Hospital and Training School for Nurses

This was the site of the first hospital in Savannah to train African-American doctors and nurses. Named for Doctors Cornelius and Alice McKane, it began on June 1, 1896, when a small group of African Americans received a charter to ...

Bon Secours Hospital

Congregation of the Sisters of Bon Secours, a nursing order founded in France in 1824, sent three members to Baltimore in May, 1881, at the request of Cardinal Gibbons. Their first U. S. convent opened at West Baltimore and Payson ...

The Confederate Hospital

The Confederate Hospital was established at Mount Jackson under the direction of Dr. Andres Russell Meem by order of the Confederate Medical Department in Richmond, Virginia about September 15, 1861. Dr. Meem, a native of the area, was a graduate ...