Knight Army Hospital: 1862-1865

A cataclysmic civil war produced hundreds of thousands of sick and wounded soldiers. The Knight Army Hospital was built in New Haven to provide for returning soldiers of Connecticut suffering from disease or injury. With a 1,000-bed capacity, it became a city within a city successfully providing comprehensive health care and a variety of other services. How this hospital came to be, how it was run, and by whom, is part of this story. The sacrifices made by the soldiers in the field were matched by the sacrifices made by doctors, nurses and other paramedical personnel. The weave of politics, economics, medical science and human frailty allowed that society to provide state-of-the-art health care for its citizens under the most difficult of circumstances.