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This building is joined by other historic structures in Gordonsville Historic District.

That hotel is now the Exchange Hotel Civil War Museum, fully restored and dedicated to the preservation of the rich history of the building and the town of Gordonsville.

Bromfield of Company I, 9th Louisiana Infantry as having died at the hospital and buried with the hundreds of others in Gordonsville, Virginia. It’s estimated that 70,000 men received care there throughout the course of the Civil War. The Gordonsville Receiving Hospital (Exchange Hotel) lists a Lt. Gordonsville was also home to an essential hospital that cared for wounded soldiers, the Exchange Hotel Civil War Receiving Hospital. Supplies, troops, and wounded soldiers were transported to and through Gordonsville. Virginia’s only Civil War Receiving Hospital standing today. This tavern famously hosted figures of early America, including Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Marquis de Lafayette among others.Īt the time of the Civil War, key supplies ran through Gordonsville by both road and railway. Originally built as a hotel in 1860, it became a receiving hospital for 70,000 soldiers from the Union and the Confederate armies. The collection is chiefly Civil War letters of the Proffits four sons, to their parents and. expressed a similar sentiment at a general hospital in Gordonsville, Virginia. He died in hospital at Gordonsville, Va., in October 1863. The Exchange Hotel Civil War Medical Museum in Gordonsville, Va showcases exhibits directly related to the history of the building and Gordonsville. Gordonsville was founded in 1794 by Nathaniel Gordon with the purchase of a plantation and establishment of a tavern. Schurr, Nancy, Inside the Confederate Hospital: Community and Conflict.