United States Military Hospital
Posted by: YoSam.
N 37° 05.105 W 089° 09.782
16S E 307743 N 4106499
Nuns made a warehouse into a hospital during the Civil War.
Waymark Code: WM3C97
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 03/14/2008
Views: 25
Marker Erected by: The Illinois State Historical Society.
Marker Text:
United States Military Hospital
The southern portion of the brick building at the Ohio Levee 150 yards east of here, was part of a large warehouse which was converted into a military hospital in 1861 and staffed during the Civil War by the Sisters of the Holy Cross. Following the Battle of Shiloh 2200 Union and Confederate wounded were patients here.
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