Treatment of the Wounded - Old Franklin Hotel - Hagerstown, MD
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N 39° 38.563 W 077° 43.190
18S E 266614 N 4391639
Marker recounting the use of the old Franklin Hotel as a Civil War Hospital site.
Waymark Code: WMRV9H
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 08/06/2016
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Marker recounting the use of the old Franklin Hotel and other local properties as field hospitals during the Civil War.
Marker text reads:
TREATMENT OF THE WOUNDED
Local physician, Dr. Norman Bruce Scott, attended to Confederate and Federal wounded in the Franklin Hotel, which stood at this site during the Civil War.
After the Battles of Antietam and Gettysburg, the military treated the wounded in private homes and commercial buildings such as the Franklin Hotel, Washington House on West Washington Street, the Hagerstown Male Academy on South Prospect Street , and at the Key-Mar College on King Street.
The marker is mounted on a brick wall of a parking garage across from the Visitor Welcome Center on Potomac Street.
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