Huguenot Springs Hospital

Some of the most touching and pitiful stories documented from the Civil War are tales of soldiers recovering from battle wounds and diseases.

The stories at times can be overwhelming, recalling countless sacrifices made by nurses and aides exposing themselves to innumerable encounters with everything imaginable.

Many times local residents supplied what relief they could muster, if nothing more than writing a letter home to a worried family awaiting news of their loved one.

There were not many pleasant memories connected with these hospitals.

If there were any, they centered on the kindness extended by a sympathetic individual.

Many soldiers died, or survived, in the arms of a caring, but total stranger.

The Huguenot Springs Hospital was located at the Huguenot Springs Resort on Huguenot Springs Road, just off Route 711.

Close by is a cemetery thought to hold the bodies of 250 Confederate soldiers in a mass grave.

Except for one individual who has been identified, the remainder rest unknown, their names lost to history.