Hammond Hospital

Hammond Hospital
Location: 
Beaufort, NC
Date Est.: 
1862
Date Cls.: 
1863

Hammond Hospital was a Civil War hospital set up in the ransacked Atlantic Hotel in Beaufort, North Carolina. Union General John Gray Foster brought in nine Catholic nuns to provide nursing for "200 wounded and sick soldiers."

Source: Wagoner, M. (2020). Column: Beaufort's Civil War hospital nursed soldiers back to healthCarolina Coast Online. 

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Compiled by: 
Phoebe Pollitt