Chimborazo Park is a park and historic land site in Richmond

Richmond, Virginia

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, Virginia

Virginia

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, United States

United States

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. Created in 1874, the park was the site of Chimborazo Hospital, one of the world's largest military hospitals.

Chimborazo Hospital

Chimborazo Hospital was an American Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

 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 20 percent mortality rate, and today the site is owned by the National Park Service

National Park Service

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 and is used as the visitor center for the Richmond National Battlefield Park

Richmond National Battlefield Park

Richmond National Battlefield Park commemorates more than 30 American Civil War sites around Richmond, Virginia, which served as the capital of the Confederate States of America for the majority of the war...

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External links

• Chimborazo Hospital in Encyclopedia Virginia
• History of Chimborazo Hospital
• National Park Service History of Chimborazo
• Richmond City's Page on Chimborazo

Additional reading

• Pember, Phoebe Yates. 1974. A Southern Woman's Story: Life in Confederate Richmond. (editor B.I. Wiley). Mockingbird Books. ISBN 0345238656 - (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.")