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 health. Carolina Coast Online.
Resources
Histories
- Hammond Hospital and an Old Beaufort Cemetary on Beaufort North Carolina History blog
Compiled by:
Phoebe Pollitt