Chimborazo Hospital
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Chimborazo Hospital was an American Civil War era facility built in Richmond, Virginia to service the needs of the Confederate Army. It functioned between 1862 and 1865, treating over 76,000 injured Confederate soldiers. It achieved a 20 percent mortality rate, and today the site is owned by the National Park Service and is used as the visitor center for the Richmond National Battlefield Park.[1]
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- ^ http://www.nps.gov/archive/rich/ri_hosp.htm Paragraph 5.