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Confederate Hospitals State Historical Marker
- Confederate Hospitals State Historical
Marker
- Located on Jackson Street between Lamar and Forsyth
Streets in Americus, Ga.
(Text)
- TIMOTHY BARNARD
Thousands of Confederate soldiers
were patients at Foard Hospital on this site between August and
December 1864. Following a disastrous fire and explosion on August
31, the patients were evacuated to the homes of townspeople and
to the country; later tents and temporary structures were erected
on the entire eastern half of this block.
Another hospital, the Bragg, was
located three blocks to the south, in the building of Furlow
Masonic Female College (a portion of which is incorporated in
the present Furlow Grammar School).
- 129-6 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1961
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- © Carl Vinson Institute of Government,
University of Georgia
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