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This category is for medical facilities and hospitals used during the American Civil War by the Confederate or Union armies. Pages in category "American Civil War hospitals" The following 78 pages are in this category, out of 78 total.
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.
Shryock, Richard H. "A Medical Perspective on the Civil War," American Quarterly (1962) 14: 161–73. in JSTOR; Waitt, Robert W. (1964) Confederate Military Hospitals in Richmond. VCU Libraries Digital Collections; Weicksel, Sarah Jones. "The Dress of the Enemy: Clothing and Disease in the Civil War Era" Civil War History (2017) 63#2 133-150 online
These were not the first hospital ships employed by the Civil War governments; previous ships used as hospitals, like the hospital ship CSS St. Philip (formerly the Star of the West) in September 1861 and April 1862, retained patients for long periods of time (30–90 days easily) and stayed on station rarely travelling. The Sanitary Commission ...
Satterlee General Hospital was the largest Union Army hospital during the American Civil War. Operating from 1862 to 1865 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , its physicians and nurses rendered care to thousands of Union soldiers and Confederate prisoners.
American Civil War hospitals (78 P) V. Veterans Affairs medical facilities (49 P) W. Walter Reed Army Medical Center (1 C, 13 P)
Harewood General Hospital was one of several purpose-built pavilion style hospitals operating in the Washington, D.C., area during the Civil War which rendered care to Union military personnel. A purpose-built pavilion style hospital, it was in use from September 4, 1862, to May 5, 1866.
Mower General Hospital was one of the largest Federal military hospitals during the American Civil War.Located across from the Reading Railroad depot in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, [1] it operated from January 1863 through May 1865, and was closed with the cessation of the war.