Hospitals

March 8, 2012 By crossroads

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Dr. Anson Hurd, of the 14th Indiana Volunteers, attends to convalescing Confederate wounded troops in tents set up as a field hospital near Keedysville, Maryland (September 1862, Alexander Gardner, photographer; Library of Congress)

A barn, house, and other outbuildings on a farm near Keedysville were transformed into a sprawling field-hospital following the Battle of Antietam (Sept. 1862, Alexander Gardner, photographer; Library of Congress)

Another view of the Keedysville field hospital (Sept. 1862, Alexander Gardner, photographer; Library of Congress)

Tents and huts sheltered the wounded at the Keedysville field hospital (Sept. 1862, Alexander Gardner, photographer; Library of Congress)

Ladies of Frederick visiting the wounded in the Presbyterian Church hospital in Frederick (Charles F. Johnson, The Long Roll, 1911)

Wounded soldiers being cared for in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Frederick (Courtesy of Chris Haugh)

The Frederick Barracks, also called the Hessian Barracks, were used to house prisoners-of-war during the Revolutionary War. At the time of this sketch in 1862, the barracks housed soldiers of the Potomac Home Brigade, but they soon became part of U.S. General Hospital No.1. (Cpl. Henry Bacon, artist; courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society)

U.S. General Hospital No.1 in Frederick, Maryland (Courtesy of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine)

Confederate dead and wounded lay sprawled outside a makeshift field-hospital during the Battle of Antietam (Sept. 18, 1862, Edwin Forbes, artist; Library of Congress)

An amputation being performed after the Battle of Gettysburg (U.S. Army Military History Institute)

A field hospital in Gettysburg (National Park Service)

A detail of the previous image (National Park Service)

A Sister of Charity stands by the bedside of a dying soldier and ministers to the man in his final hours (Harpers Weekly, September 6, 1862; NPS History Collection)

This project has been generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Park Service, the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority, Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area, Frederick Community College, and others. See Credits page for full list.

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Maryland and the Border
in the Civil War

Hospitals

Special Collections

Maryland and the Border in the Civil War

Hospitals

Special Collections

Maryland and the Border
in the Civil War