From: med.navy.mil
NAVY MEDICAL CARE
Whether victims of disease or hostile action, Sailors required treatment and much Navy medicine took place at hospitals in Chelsea, Brooklyn, Mound City, New Orleans, and Philadelphia. By the fall of 1862, Navy hospitals were filled to their utmost capacity. As a result, medical facilities at navy yards and naval stations were expanded and both civilian and Army hospitals were also treating naval patients. To remedy the situation, a major hospital expansion campaign began. Unfortunately, many of these improvements weren’t realized until the very end of the war.
EXPANSION OF NAVY MEDICINE
Following their recapture by Union forces, the two naval hospitals in the South—Portsmouth (Va.) and Pensacola were put back into operation. In addition to the naval hospitals that had been established before the war, at least four others came on line between 1862 and 1865. These hospitals at Mound City, Ill. (1862); Memphis, Tn. (1863); New Orleans, La. (1863); and Port Royal, S.C. (1864), were located within the theater of operations of the blockading river squadrons and acted as receiving hospitals, taking patients on a short-term basis.
Image: Navy Hospital, Chelsea, Mass
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