Richmond’s Civil War Hospitals

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Hospitals such as Chimborazo, erected on this site in 1861, were built to handle the increasing influx of wounded Civil War soldiers to Richmond from nearby battlefields. The construction of Winder Hospital followed to the west in 1862. Eventually, soldiers from throughout the Confederacy were brought to Richmond for treatment here and at more than twenty-five warehouses, private homes, and churches used as hospitals throughout the city. Although officials at first prohibited women from working in these hospitals, they later relented and women such as Juliet Hopkins, Phoebe Pember, and Sally L. Tompkins gained distinction through hard work caring for wounded soldiers.

Department of Historic Resources, 2010

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N. 32nd Street and East Grace Street (location of Chimborazo Hospital, just outside of Chimborazo Park and near the Chimborazo Medical Museum) Sources: Calcutt, Rebecca Barbour. Richmond’s Wartime Hospitals. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing, Inc., 2005. Coles, David J. “ Richmond, The Confederate Hospital City.” In Virginia at War, 1862, edited by William C. Davis, James I. Robertson for the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies, 71-87. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2007. Frank, Lisa Tendrich. Women in the American Civil War. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC- CLIO, Inc., 2008. Freemon, Frank R. Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care during the American Civil War. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998. Green, Carol Cranmer. Chimborazo: The Confederacy’s Largest Hospital. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. McCallum, Edward Jack. “Chimborazo Hospital.” In Military Medicine: From Ancient Times to the 21st Century, 72-73. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, Inc, 2008. McGuire, Judith White Brockenbrough. Diary of a Southern Refugee: during the War. Richmond: J.W. Randolph & English, 1889. Pember, Phoebe. A Southern Woman’s Story. Ed. Bell I. Wiley. UNC, 1959. Rosen, Robert N. The Jewish Confederates. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2000.