In 1862, the spa at Huguenot Springs Hotel became a convalescent hospital for Confederate soldiers. Trains brought patients from Richmond hospitals to Robious Station on the Richmond and Danville Railroad, where they were transferred to wagons for transportation here. Local women served as nurses and treated the men to roast chicken and homemade jellies, and ministers tended to the men’s spiritual needs. After the war, Harvey Hatcher, a Baptist army evangelist, wrote that in May 1863 he went to the Huguenot Springs convalescent hospital and aided the chaplain, Geo. W Hyde, for three weeks in a series of meetings during which about thirty men professed faith in Christ, he baptized some seven or eight, and Rev. D.B. Winfree of Chesterfield preached five times. Hatcher also wrote that in June 1864, at Hyde’s request, he returned for two weeks, but the meeting was suddenly closed when a large number of men came to the hospital and occupied the chapel; about twenty professed to have a hope in the Gospel, and Hyde baptized six or eight while Hatcher was there and some after he left. Buried in this mass-grave cemetery are the remains of more than 250 soldiers, most of whom died of disease rather than battle wounds. About 92 have been identified as being from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Huguenot Springs had long been popular with Richmonders as a resort, was incorporated in 1846, and included a grand hotel, a spring house, bathing facilities, and cottages, accommodating about 150 guests at a time during its antebellum heyday. The hotel burned in 1890, and the surviving cottages were made into private homes. In 1915, the Powhatan United Daughters of the Confederacy erected a monument over the cemetery.