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The Mound City Civil War Naval Hospital was a naval hospital in Mound City, Illinois, used by the United States Navy during the Civil War. The hospital was established in 1861 in an existing brick building claimed by the U.S. government. It became one of the largest Union hospitals in the western states during the war. [2]
USS Cairo was built in 1861 by James Eads and Co. of Mound City, under contract to the War Department. She was commissioned in January 1862 as part of the Mississippi River Squadron, U.S. Navy Lieutenant James M. Prichett in command. She was a City-class ironclad gunboat constructed for the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was the ...
During the American Civil War, Mound City was the site of the Mound City Civil War Naval Hospital. The cemetery was used to inter both Union and Confederate soldiers who died while under care at the hospital. After it was officially declared a National Cemetery in 1864, several nearby battlefield cemeteries arranged to have their remains ...
Mound City Civil War Naval Hospital: Mound City Civil War Naval Hospital: October 9, 1974 : Commercial Avenue and Central Street: Mound City: Destroyed by fire in 1976 3: Mound City National Cemetery: Mound City National Cemetery
Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, reorganized and redesignated as the Alexander T. Augusta Military Medical Center on 19 May 2023 in honor of Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Alexander T. Augusta, the first African-American Medical Corps officer to serve in the United States Army, during the U.S. Civil War.
USS Mound City was a City-class ironclad gunboat built for service on the Mississippi River and its tributaries in the American Civil War. Originally commissioned as part of the Union Army 's Western Gunboat Flotilla , she remained in that service until October 1862.
Memorial Hospital of Chester, Illinois, Chester; Mercyhealth: Javon Bea Hospital - Riverside, Rockford; ... Mound City Civil War Naval Hospital, ...
Pages in category "Defunct hospitals in Illinois" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. ... Mound City Civil War Naval Hospital; O.