Fredericksburg as a Hospital
- Period Medicine
- Fredericksburg Map
- Hospital Conditions
- "Now and Then" Photos
- Profiles on Officers/Doctors
Description
In battle, proper hospitals were hard to come by or often too far away. If a building could be found near the field of battle it was used to house officers or wounded. By 1864 many areas in Virginia had seen battle or had been cut off from goods and supplies that would have normally come to the towns and cities. The wounded that arrived in Fredericksburg found themselves in a town already taxed in resources and lacking medical supplies. Learn more about Civil War medicine and the hospital conditions in Fredericksburg. Also see past and present photos of buildings used as hospitals, and profiles on doctors and officers present in the city in May 1864.