![]() ![]() Wilson Female Seminary reopened in the former hospital and received a charter as Wilson Collegiate Institute in 1872.” When Wilson created a town cemetery, they were re-interred there with a Confederate monument erected over the site. The hospital closed at the end of the war. All of those who died at the hospital were buried in a mass grave. Reportedly, a group of invalids from the hospital and local militia defended Wilson by destroying the bridge over the Toisnot Swamp to halt the invaders. “Fighting never broke out in Wilson, but, on July 20, 1863, ‘an immense armament of negroes and Yankees’ advanced on Wilson. The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad that ran through Wilson provided the military hospital with supplies, including ice and turpentine, used to treat fevers. Their duties included food preparation and cleaning. ![]() ![]() Most nurses and orderlies were unskilled soldiers however, at least seven local women were known to have worked at the hospital as matrons. Employing thirty-five to forty people, it also boosted the local economy. “The hospital made Wilson known outside of the state of North Carolina. It served those wounded in fighting along the coast. In the 1864 Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal the Wilson hospital was listed as one of twenty-one principal hospitals in North Carolina. Solomon Sampson Satchwell, who had graduated from Wake Forest College and studied medicine at New York University before serving as a military surgeon with the Twenty-fifth North Carolina Infantry, was appointed Surgeon-in-Charge. 2 was established in Wilson in what had once been the Wilson Female Seminary. “The Confederacy organized its Medical Department late in 1861 and within months, in April of 1862, the North Carolina General Military Hospital No. ![]() In 1954, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources’ North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program installed a marker near the original site of the hospital, and the agency’s website features the startling essay below. Its remnants stand at the corner of Lee and Goldsboro Streets. Did you know Wilson was the site of a Confederate hospital? ![]()
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