tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248621174174421034.post8494448543484930691..comments2023-06-28T08:23:05.448-04:00Comments on Civil War Letters of John W. Derr: Letter #29 - Broad Street Hospital, Philadelphia Pa. -- December 16, 1862JWDlettershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00265540437950735059noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248621174174421034.post-74769898456434057062023-06-28T08:23:05.448-04:002023-06-28T08:23:05.448-04:00Hi. Thank you for your question. The Broad and C...Hi. Thank you for your question. The Broad and Cherry Street Hospital used by the North to treat sick and wounded soldiers was on the corner of Broad Street and Cherry Street in Philadelphia...about 2 blocks North of City Hall. On the site near the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.JWDlettershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00265540437950735059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248621174174421034.post-69888070395647053822023-06-04T22:14:46.815-04:002023-06-04T22:14:46.815-04:00Thank you for posting. I was wondering where this...Thank you for posting. I was wondering where this hospital was located, as my great-grandfather's uncle died there of a wound received in the Peninsula Campaign. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248621174174421034.post-3548237194345560082017-09-12T10:45:27.435-04:002017-09-12T10:45:27.435-04:00nicenice<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ursula-nwobu/write-my-essay-the-new-bu_1_b_11451790.html">write me an essay online</a>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14269657111903821428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248621174174421034.post-45217510694075125322013-04-27T08:14:56.815-04:002013-04-27T08:14:56.815-04:00You are very welcome! Quite a bit of the informat...You are very welcome! Quite a bit of the information I obtain relative to my ancestors is from other people such as yourself who share their family histories. Thank YOU...for sharing.<br />Jim D.JWDlettershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00265540437950735059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248621174174421034.post-11782301467758059872013-04-23T15:02:29.008-04:002013-04-23T15:02:29.008-04:00Thank you for sharing this. My husband's great...Thank you for sharing this. My husband's great grandfather John F Thompson, Pvt. Co.A 16th ME, Inf, Volunteers was wounded July 1,1863 at Gettysburg and sent to the General Hospital at Broad & Cherry St., later to Mower where he remained until it closed in 1865. The wound never properly healed and though he returned to work in Mass. he spent his last days at Togus Military facility in Augusta, ME. He died there 17 June 1903 at age 59 of the effects of his wounds.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com