Civil War Field Hospital

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Built in 1852, this building was adjacent to location of the Battle of Richmond, Aug. 29-30, 1862, and became field hospital for Gen. Wm. Nelson's 1st and 2nd brigades, USA. Mortality was high, and about forty Union soldiers were ...

Mt. Zion Church - Field Hospital

THE SANCTUARY BECAME A SURGERY

On the day of the battle, August 30, 1862, the temperature hovered near 100 degrees. As the battle raged, ambulances drawn by sweating horses raced into the churchyard, bringing more and more casualties to Mt. Zion ...

Hopemont State Hospital

Established in 1911 by an act of the Legislature as the State Tuberculosis Sanitarium. In 1921, name was changed to the Hopemont Sanitarium and to the Hopemont State Hospital for the chronically ill, aged, and infirm in 1965.

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Confederate General Hospital No. 12

Also known as Banner, Grant, Wayside

Later used as barracks by Federal

occupation forces. Original building.

Richmond Civil War Centennial Committee

1965

Marker is at the intersection of East Franklin Street and North 19th Street, on the left when traveling east on East Franklin Street. ...

Portsmouth Naval Hospital

Administering to Both the Union and Confederacy

This is the site of the Portsmouth Naval Hospital which served both the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War. The Portsmouth Naval Hospital, the U.S. Navy’s first hospital, was founded in 1827 ...

American Field Hospital

1781 Siege of Yorktown

I attended at the hospital, amputated a man’s arm, and assisted in dressing a number of wounds.

Dr. James Thacher, October 1781

I hastened with all speed to the hospital … to procure another supply from Dr. Craik; and ...

Site of Contractors General Hospital

In 1933, Dr. Sidney R. Garfield opened Contractors General Hospital six miles west of here. His modest facility successfully delivered health care to Colorado River Aqueduct workers through a prepaid insurance plan. Later, in association with industrialist Henry J. Kaiser, ...

Primary Children’s Hospital

The Primary Association, a children’s organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, operated a children’s hospital near hear for 30 years, from 1922 to 1952.

· Located at 44 West North Temple Street.

· Founded by Sarah Louise “Louie” ...

Hospital and School of the Good Shepherd

Lawrenceville, Virginia

Though many freed African Americans continued after the Civil War to work the same farms on which they had been slaves, many also left their homes in search of better opportunities elsewhere. Often the sick, elderly and very young ...

Working Benevolent Society Hospital

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The Working Benevolent Society Hospital, first known as St. Luke Colored Hospital, was a two-story frame building standing here at the corner of Green Avenue and Jenkins Street. Founded in 1920, it served blacks in Greenville for twenty-eight years. ...