Confederate Hospitals-GHM 129-6-Sumter Co
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N 32° 04.375 W 084° 14.038
16S E 761104 N 3551866
118 Jackson Street in Americus
Waymark Code: WMACAY
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 12/24/2010
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Thousands of Confederate soldiers were patients at Foard Hospital on this site between August and December 1864. Following a disastrous fire and explosion on August 31, the patients were evacuated to the homes of townspeople and to the country; later tents and temporary structures were erected on the entire eastern half of this block.
Another hospital, the Bragg, was located three blocks to the south, in the building of Furlow Masonic Female College (a portion of which is incorporated in the present Furlow Grammar School).
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 129-6
Date: 1961
Sponsor: Georgia Historical Commission
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