Site of Foard Hospital - US Civil War - Americus, Georgia
Posted by: Sprinterman
N 32° 04.375 W 084° 14.038
16S E 761104 N 3551866
118 Jackson Street, Americus, Georgia
Waymark Code: WMACAZ
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 12/24/2010
Views: 5
Now a commercial building in Americus Georgia this site was used as a Conferate Hospital in August thru December 1864. The Georgia Historical Marker at that site reads as follows:
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).
Address: 118 Jackson Street, Americus, Georgia
Name of War: US Civil War
Type of Documentation: Historic Marker/Interpretive
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