Editing Jeffersonville, Indiana (section)

===== Jefferson General Hospital =====
{{See also|Jefferson General Hospital}}Between 1864 and 1866 Port Fulton (now within Jeffersonville) was home to [[Jefferson General Hospital]], the third largest hospital in the country at that time. The institution was built to replace Joe Holt Hospital and occupied land obtained from U.S. Senator [[Jesse D. Bright]], a Confederate sympathizer. The land stretched down to the Ohio River, facilitating patient transfer from riverboats to the hospital. The facility contained 24 wards each radiating out like spokes on a wheel and all connected by a corridor one-half mile in circumference. Each ward was 150 feet long and 22 feet wide and could accommodate 60 patients. Female nurses and matrons were quartered separately from the men. During its nearly three-year existence the institution cared for more than 16,000 patients and served more than 2,500,000 meals.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jeffersonville Jefferson General Hospital Looking West|url=https://digital.library.in.gov/Record/IHS_dc008-1024|access-date=October 17, 2021|website=Indiana Memory|archive-date=October 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018003547/https://digital.library.in.gov/Record/IHS_dc008-1024|url-status=live}}</ref>