RI Hospital has surprising link to Civil War

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Though Rhode Island was not a theater for any Civil War battles, a war hospital existed in Portsmouth to aid both Union and Confederate soldiers.

PORTSMOUTH — Though Rhode Island was not a theater for any Civil War battles, a war hospital existed in Portsmouth to aid both Union and Confederate soldiers.

“I don’t know of any other ones in Rhode Island,” said Jim Garman, president of the Portsmouth Historical Society. “Nothing else here on the island, for sure.”

The Civil War involved numerous battles between Union and Confederate soldiers; it began in 1861 and ended in 1865. The reasons given for the cause of the war vary among historians, but slavery and a fundamental disagreement over how much power the national government did and should possess are prominent in the Civil War discourse.

One wartime hospital was located in the present-day Melville district, formerly known as Portsmouth Grove. It was known by several names, earlier as Portsmouth Grove Hospital and later as the Lovell General Hospital, named in honor of Joseph Lovell, surgeon general of the Army from 1818 to 1836, according to local resident Frank Grzyb’s 2012 book, “Rhode Island’s Civil War Hospital.”

REST OF ARTICLE WITH PICS:https://www.newportri.com/news/20190110/portsmouth-hospital-has-surprising-link-to-civil-war
 
Though Rhode Island was not a theater for any Civil War battles, a war hospital existed in Portsmouth to aid both Union and Confederate soldiers.

PORTSMOUTH — Though Rhode Island was not a theater for any Civil War battles, a war hospital existed in Portsmouth to aid both Union and Confederate soldiers.

“I don’t know of any other ones in Rhode Island,” said Jim Garman, president of the Portsmouth Historical Society. “Nothing else here on the island, for sure.”

The Civil War involved numerous battles between Union and Confederate soldiers; it began in 1861 and ended in 1865. The reasons given for the cause of the war vary among historians, but slavery and a fundamental disagreement over how much power the national government did and should possess are prominent in the Civil War discourse.

One wartime hospital was located in the present-day Melville district, formerly known as Portsmouth Grove. It was known by several names, earlier as Portsmouth Grove Hospital and later as the Lovell General Hospital, named in honor of Joseph Lovell, surgeon general of the Army from 1818 to 1836, according to local resident Frank Grzyb’s 2012 book, “Rhode Island’s Civil War Hospital.”

REST OF ARTICLE WITH PICS:https://www.newportri.com/news/20190110/portsmouth-hospital-has-surprising-link-to-civil-war
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