Civil War Field Hospital

Built in 1852, this building stood adjacent to the location of the Battle of Richmond on Aug. 29-30, 1862, and became a field hospital for Gen. Wm. Nelson's 1st and 2nd brigades, USA. Mortality was high, and about forty Union soldiers were buried in a mass grave near the church, then reinterred in Camp Nelson National Cem. in 1868. On Aug. 30, 1862, the building was struck by fire from Captain John T. Humphrey's Arkansas Artillery Battery, with Churchill's (3rd) Division of E. Kirby Smith's Provisional Army of Ky., CSA, and the scar remains visible on the south wall. The Battle of Richmond brought a Confederate victory, and after the Battle of Perryville in October, Confederates retired from the state. After the war, the building again served as Mt. Zion Christian Church.

Kentucky · United States