Each ward was warmed by a wood stove and lit at night by a single candle.
CIVIL WAR HOSPITAL MUSEUM WINDOWS
Each side of each building had three doors and ten windows each window had a white curtain. There were ninety hospital wards, which all had shingled roofs, wood-plank floors, and whitewashed walls (interior and exterior). Record keeping at Chimborazo Hospital was meticulous. The name Chimborazo is said to have been inspired by the volcanic mountain Chimborazo, in Ecuador. McCaw, a professor at the Medical College of Virginia, as surgeon-in-chief. Since most Confederate soldiers would be wintering further north, Moore decided to convert the barracks into a hospital, appointing Dr. Simultaneously and coincidentally, on an undeveloped plateau on the east end of Richmond called Chimborazo Hill, slaves began building a permanent winter quarters, including soldiers’ barracks, officers’ quarters, three hospitals, and a bake house. Moore, the new surgeon general of the Confederacy, needed to quickly identify new potential hospital sites. These facilities quickly became overcrowded, and Samuel P. Most Richmond-area military hospitals were not purpose-built buildings, but rather repurposed existing structures, including warehouses, hotels, homes, and stores.
Many soldiers were sent to civilian houses to receive medical care, resulting in both unsatisfactory care and the illness of many caretakers. In the early days of the Civil War, most people did not expect the conflict to last more than a few months, so the Confederate government failed to immediately establish many kinds of necessary military infrastructure, including medical infrastructure. Īfter the war, the Hospital became a refuge for freed slaves. This mortality rate of between 8.3 and 10.3 percent is among the lowest such rates of period military hospitals. During its existence, the hospital admitted nearly 78,000 patients and between 6,500 and 8,000 of these patients died. It functioned between 18 in what is now Chimborazo Park, treating over 76,000 injured Confederate soldiers. US National Park Service model of the Chimborazo Hospital grounds during the Civil WarĬhimborazo Hospital was a Civil War-era facility built in Richmond, Virginia to service the medical needs of the Confederate Army.
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