Civil War Medical Care in Virginia

temporary hospitals were created near battlefields to provide primary care for the wounded in the Civil War
Source: National Library of Medicine, Wounded at hospital in Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1864

medical care in the Civil War was often provided in tents
Source: National Library of Medicine, Field Hospital, City Point, Virginia, near Petersburg, Va.

surgeons amputated limbs in makeshift facilities on battlefields
Source: Library of Congress, Field hospital (second corps) on the battlefield of Chancellorsville (by Edwin Forbes, May 2, 1863)

Links

• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Medical and surgical care during the American Civil War, 1861–1865
• Natioal Park Service
• Chimborazo Hospital
• Virginia Center for Civil war Studies (Virginia Tech)
• Healing Without Supplies: Confederate Medical Care for Prisoners of War
• Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
• Civil War Medicine - Research Guides
• Virginia Museum of History and Culture
• Civil War Medicine

Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond processed 75,000 patients between 1861-65
Source: National Library of Medicine, Panoramic view of the Chimborazo Hospital, Richmond, Virginia

two rows of barracks bracketed a central compound at Camp Convalescent
Source: National Library of Medicine, Rendezvous of distribution: birds eye view of Camp Convalescent near Alexandria, Va

one of the horrors of war was finding the wounded after a battle
Source: National Library of Medicine, Collecting the wounded

wounded soldiers were sent long distances by train to hospitals far from the battlefields
Source: National Library of Medicine, Transportation of the wounded after the Battle of Seven Pines