L'Ouverture Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia
During the Civil War the U.S. Army hospital for black soldiers in Alexandria, Virginia was called L'Ouverture Hospital, named for Haiti's national hero, Toussaint L'Ouverture. Born a slave, L'Ouverture led a successful rebellion for Haitian independence against Napoleon Bonaparte. The hospital in Alexandria was in the vicinity of the 1300 block of Duke Street, within rifle-musket range of the modern Army personnel Center in the Hoffman Building on Stovall Street. The link below has a description of the hospital at the bottom of the page.
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