Soldiers, Sailors, Hospital Attendants - Hammond Hospital - Point Lookout MD
N 38° 02.368 W 076° 19.333
18S E 383972 N 4211019
A simple monument at the location of an old Union hospital is dedicated to both the North and South on the southern tip of MD.
Waymark Code: WM8RNM
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 05/07/2010
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A marble monument is installed at Point Lookout at the location of where the Hammond Hospital stood during the Civil War. The inscription reads:
This monument is dedicated to the memory of those
soldiers, sailors and hospital attendants from both
North and South, who were here at Point Lookout
from July 1862 to July 1865
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This monument marks the general location of
HAMMOND HOSPITAL
Hammond Hospital was built by the federal government at the southernmost tip of MD in 1862. It had a central bay and 16 wings that radiated out like a giant wheel with spokes. It was a massive complex that took up most of the land between the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay. Union soldiers and many of the Confederate prisoners from the nearby POW camp were treated there. After the war, it officially closed its doors in August 1865. The structures were sold or demolished.
The marker is where the central hub of the hospital was. Other than the monument and one of the pilings upon which the wings were built, nothing is left to indicate a huge hospital once occupied most of the land.
There is no date or agency on the marble memorial to indicate the details of its installation and research revealed no information. It is assumed it was installed by the state of Maryland. (The date indicated in the variables is purely conjecture.) A nearby U.S. Civil War Trail sign has an illustration of what the hospital looked like.