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. state of North Carolina that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S.
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