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Tag Archives: civil war hospitals

Baptists and the American Civil War: September 29, 1863

Some casualties of the war take place far away from the battlefields. Today a Union barracks in Nashville, Tennessee collapses, killing a number of Confederate prisoners and injuring hundreds. The collapse of the Maxwell House prison–formerly the unfinished Maxwell Hotel–is blamed on poor construction. Located near the Central Baptist Church, some of the injured are…

September 29, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
Clarrisa Jones, Nurse, Alexandria Baptist Hospital

Baptists and the American Civil War: September 12, 1862

Across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., is Alexandria, Virginia. Occupied by United States forces since May 24, 1861, the town is the former home of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee–currently engaged in a daring invasion of Maryland–whose estate is used by the Union as a military command post. Many other buildings in town have…

September 12, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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