Chimborazo Park
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| Type | Public Park |
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3200 E. Broad Street Richmond Virginia United States |
| Coordinates | 37°25′45″N 77°22′25″W / 37.429167°N 77.373611°W |
| Created | 1874 |
Chimborazo Park is a park and historic land site in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Created in 1874, the park was the site of Chimborazo Hospital, one of the world's largest military hospitals.[1]
Chimborazo Hospital
Chimborazo Hospital was an American Civil War-era facility built in Richmond, Virginia, to service the needs of the Confederate Army. It functioned between 1862 and 1865, treating over 76,000 injured Confederate soldiers. It achieved a 9 percent mortality rate, and today the site is owned by the National Park Service and is used as the visitor center for the Richmond National Battlefield Park.[2]
References
Additional reading
- Green, Carol C. Chimborazo: The Confederacy's Largest Hospital (2007)
- Pember, Phoebe Yates. 1974. A Southern Woman's Story: Life in Confederate Richmond. (editor B.I. Wiley). Mockingbird Books. ISBN 0-345-23865-6 - (Mrs. Yates, a chief matron of one of the hospital divisions at Chimborazo, wrote this memoir between 1865 and 1879. Douglas Southall Freeman regarded this as "one of the most fascinating of Confederate books.")
External links
- Chimborazo Hospital in Encyclopedia Virginia
- History of Chimborazo Hospital
- National Park Service History of Chimborazo
- Richmond City's Page on Chimborazo
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