Hospitals near the fiercest fighting.
Wherever great battles were fought, hospitals of more or less permanency, as well as temporary fieldhos-pitals, were bound to spring up. At
Corinth, which
Rosecrans held stoutly against
Van Dorn's impetuous attacks in October, 1862; at
Nashville, where
Hood was broken by
Thomas in December, 1864; at
Vicksburg, where
Pemberton faced
Grant until its fall, July 4, 1863; in
Virginia, where the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia ranged over the ground again and again; even as far to the
Union rear as
Evansville, Indiana, hospitals were opened for the sick and wounded.
Public buildings, schools, colleges, churches, hotels, and large mansions were all utilized for this purpose.
Chesapeake Hospital in
Hampton, Virginia, and Corona Hospital in
Corinth, Mississippi, were female colleges before they were used as hospitals.
At the
Chesapeake about 700 wounded prisoners taken in the Seven Days were treated.