Wounded Rebels from Gettysburg arrive in Baltimore

[John Hartwell]

 

[lelliott19]

Thanks for posting @John Hartwell

I don't believe I had ever seen the name of the rebel hospital in Baltimore (listed as "National Hotel Hospital on Camden Street" ) before. Thanks for that information.

Does anyone have any further info about the hospital? What surgeons were assigned? how long it operated? Was it actually in a building that had been a hotel? Was it called the "National Hotel" prior to use as a hospital? Had it been in use as a hospital previously?

 

[John Hartwell]

U. S. General Hospital Camden Station

Founded: ca. September 1, 1861, for Volunteers.
Closed: June 1, 1865. Patients transferred to Jarvis General Hospital
Location: National Hotel and Camden Hall on Camden Street opposite the Camden Street Depot of the B&O Railroad with two buildings opposite, one a piano factory, Baltimore, MD

It stood across the street from Camden Station, but the building is long gone. The site was an open parking lot for some years recently, but the new Hilton Hotel opened on the site a few years ago. Check out the link below. It includes references to National Archives records of patients, deaths and effects and other records they have from the hospital.
http://mdhistoryonline.net/mdmedicine/index.cfm?action=search&type=hospitals&id=67