| Satterlee General Hospital | |
|---|---|
| Forty-fourth Street and Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | |
.jpg) 1864 illustration | |
| Site information | |
| Controlled by | Union Army |
| Site history | |
| Built | 1862 |
| In use | 1862–1865 |
| Demolished | 1865 (officially closed on August 3, 1865) |
| Battles/wars | American Civil War |
Satterlee General Hospital was the largest Union Army hospital during the American Civil War. Operating from 1862 to 1865 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, its physicians and nurses rendered care to thousands of Union soldiers and Confederate prisoners. After its patient population spiked following the battles of Bull Run and Gettysburg, this hospital became the second-largest in the country with 34 wards and hundreds of tents containing 4,500 beds.[1]
Initially referred to as the West Philadelphia General Hospital, it was later renamed in honor of Richard Sherwood Satterlee,[2] a physician from Seneca County, New York, who was stationed with the United States Army at Fort Winnebago in Portage, Wisconsin, during the Black Hawk War, and then rose to prominence and was brevetted as a lieutenant colonel, colonel, and brigadier general during America's Civil War "for diligent care and attention in procuring proper army supplies, as Medical Purveyor, and for economy and fidelity in the disbursement of large sums of money."[3]
- ^ Goldstein, Josh. "Gettysburg created crush at Philadelphia hospital". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
- ^ "Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital." Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Catholic Historical Research Center, Archdiocese of Pennsylvania, March 24, 2011.
- ^ "Surgeon R.S. Satterlee Breveted." New York, New York, The New York Times, September 11, 1864.