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On this forty-acre plateau, Confederates built Chimborazo Hospital, one of the largest and best known Civil War military hospitals. Its neat rows of pavilion buildings enhanced ventilation and served as a model for many postwar hospitals. None of Chimborazo’s one hundred fifty wooden structures exist today. From 1861-1865, seventy-eight thousand sick and wounded Confederate soldiers passed through the hospital, which was one of Richmond’s many wartime hospitals.
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Richmond, Virginia · United States
