County: Pulaski
Location: The marker is located in Mound
City, on the north side of IL Route 37 (Main Street) near
Central Streets.
N 37o 05.103
W 089o 09.781
Erected: 04/21/1961 Erected by: The Illinois State Historical Society
The southern portion of the brick building at the Ohio levee, 150 yards east of here, was part of a large warehouse which was converted into a Military Hospital in 1861 and staffed during the Civil War by the Sisters of the Holy Cross. Following the Battle of Shiloh 2200 Union and Confederate wounded were patients here.
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