http://www.rochestergeneral.org/rgh/rochester-general-hospital/about-us/rochester-medical-museum-and-archives/online-exhibits/civil-war-medicine-and-the-rochester-city-hospital/ RSS en-us http://www.rochestergeneral.org/rgh/rochester-general-hospital/about-us/rochester-medical-museum-and-archives/online-exhibits/civil-war-medicine-and-the-rochester-city-hospital/local-soldiers/ http://www.rochestergeneral.org/rgh/rochester-general-hospital/about-us/rochester-medical-museum-and-archives/online-exhibits/civil-war-medicine-and-the-rochester-city-hospital/local-soldiers/ Many local soldiers from the surrounding commuinties were treated at the City Hospital. The below listed individuals are just four examples of soldiers sent back to their local communities to convalesce from their wounds. Private David A. Carter enlisted at Rochester into the 108th N.Y. Volunteer Infantry on August 6, 1862. He was wounded on June 17, 1864 at the Battle of Petersburg Va. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.rochestergeneral.org/rgh/rochester-general-hospital/about-us/rochester-medical-museum-and-archives/online-exhibits/civil-war-medicine-and-the-rochester-city-hospital/division-and-corps-hospital/ http://www.rochestergeneral.org/rgh/rochester-general-hospital/about-us/rochester-medical-museum-and-archives/online-exhibits/civil-war-medicine-and-the-rochester-city-hospital/division-and-corps-hospital/ The Medical Director of the Army of the Potomac, Dr. Jonathan Letterman, organized the Army into a system of Divisional hospitals in October 1862. This system of organization and management eventually spread throughout the Federal Army. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.rochestergeneral.org/rgh/rochester-general-hospital/about-us/rochester-medical-museum-and-archives/online-exhibits/civil-war-medicine-and-the-rochester-city-hospital/hospital-design/ http://www.rochestergeneral.org/rgh/rochester-general-hospital/about-us/rochester-medical-museum-and-archives/online-exhibits/civil-war-medicine-and-the-rochester-city-hospital/hospital-design/ The devastating British deaths from disease during the Crimean War prompted improvements in sanitation and hospital design during the Civil War. The belief that improved air ventilation minimized the spread of diseases led to the development of new designs in hospitals where patients could be separated by type of injury or illness, thereby minimizing the spread of disease and infection. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.rochestergeneral.org/rgh/rochester-general-hospital/about-us/rochester-medical-museum-and-archives/online-exhibits/civil-war-medicine-and-the-rochester-city-hospital/regimental-dressing-stations/ http://www.rochestergeneral.org/rgh/rochester-general-hospital/about-us/rochester-medical-museum-and-archives/online-exhibits/civil-war-medicine-and-the-rochester-city-hospital/regimental-dressing-stations/ The initial treatment of wounded soldiers was usually administered at regimental dressing stations that were located close to the battle lines and protected by earthworks or other natural defenses. These stations were typically manned by one Regimental Assistant Surgeon and one or two medical attendants. The wounded would either come to the dressing station or be helped there by comrades. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.rochestergeneral.org/rgh/rochester-general-hospital/about-us/rochester-medical-museum-and-archives/online-exhibits/civil-war-medicine-and-the-rochester-city-hospital/depot-evac-hospitals/ http://www.rochestergeneral.org/rgh/rochester-general-hospital/about-us/rochester-medical-museum-and-archives/online-exhibits/civil-war-medicine-and-the-rochester-city-hospital/depot-evac-hospitals/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.rochestergeneral.org/rgh/rochester-general-hospital/about-us/rochester-medical-museum-and-archives/online-exhibits/civil-war-medicine-and-the-rochester-city-hospital/federal-general-hospitals/ http://www.rochestergeneral.org/rgh/rochester-general-hospital/about-us/rochester-medical-museum-and-archives/online-exhibits/civil-war-medicine-and-the-rochester-city-hospital/federal-general-hospitals/ The title of General Hospital was designated because admissions were not confined to any particular military unit or post unlike Division or Corps Hospitals. By the end of the war, General hospitals were established in scores of eastern cities. Washington was the center of military medicine due to its close relation to the war department and its close proximity to the majority of combat in the later years of the war. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.rochestergeneral.org/rgh/rochester-general-hospital/about-us/rochester-medical-museum-and-archives/online-exhibits/civil-war-medicine-and-the-rochester-city-hospital/St-Marys-Hospital/ http://www.rochestergeneral.org/rgh/rochester-general-hospital/about-us/rochester-medical-museum-and-archives/online-exhibits/civil-war-medicine-and-the-rochester-city-hospital/St-Marys-Hospital/ St Mary’s became Rochester’s first functioning hospital when it opened its doors on September 17, 1857. The first union soldiers were received at the hospital in 1862, although it would not be until March of 1863 that St. Mary’s would be officially designated a federal “Army General Hospital.” In spite of its official status, by the end of 1863, the hospital had admitted relatively few wounded soldiers most likely due to the high cost of transporting the wounded from the battlefields to western New York. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST