Civil War veterans and the battles they fought are frequently commemorated in Virginia. But the women who nursed the wounded in blood-soaked, makeshift hospitals off the battlefield are seldom remembered.
After the Battle of First Manassas on July 21, 1861, Ben Lomond House served as a Confederate field hospital where soldiers from Virginia, Georgia and Mississippi were treated for their battle wounds.
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