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Civil War Hospital 1864-66

Location: 301 Park Place at Crestview, northeast lawn, Holt Masonic Orphan's Home, Port Fulton neighborhood, Jeffersonville. (Clark County, Indiana)

Erected by the Indiana Civil War Centennial Commission, 1962

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ID# : 10.1962.1

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Site of Jefferson General Hospital, the third largest hospital in the United States during the Civil War. Under Dr. Middleton Goldsmith's command it served over 16, 000 patients.

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Science, Medicine, and Inventions, Military