Chimborazo Hospital

Chimborazo Hospital was an American Civil War era facility built in Richmond, Virginia, to service the needs of the Confederate Army. It functioned between 1862 and 1865 in what is now Chimborazo Park, treating over 76,000 injured Confederate soldiers. It achieved a 10 percent mortality rate.

Dr. James Brown McCaw was the Chief Surgeon. He had received his medical degree from the university of New York, in 1844, and at the time of the Civil War he was professor at the Medical College of Virginia, now VCU Medical Center.

Today the site is owned by the National Park Service and is used as the visitor center for the Richmond National Battlefield Park. The “Chimborazo Medical Museum” is housed in a 20th-century building atop the site of the historic hospital and features exhibits about the hospital and other hospitals in Civil War Richmond, as well as the practice of medicine in the 1860s.