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VA hospital that once treated Civil War veterans could close

2015-07-03 08:58:58| Energy - Topix.net

This photo taken April 13, 2015, shows the Battle Mountain Sanitarium campus, top left, a scenic escape perched atop a bluff in the remote Black Hills of South Dakota that's become a haven known for healing the nation's vete... . This photo taken April 13, 2015, shows a bright and open hallway at Battle Mountain Sanitarium, a historic VA facility in Hot Springs, S.D. While Black Hills VA officials has proposed shuttering the hospital, many of the reg... .

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VA hospital that once treated Civil War veterans could close

2015-07-03 08:58:57| Energy - Topix.net

Perched atop a bluff in the remote Black Hills, a veterans hospital built of thick blocks of pink sandstone and topped with red-tiled roofs in a Spanish mission style overlooks the tiny town of Hot Springs, South Dakota, and has provided recovering soldiers a bucolic haven for more than a century. Wounded warriors from Civil War battles at Antietam and Gettysburg came to the Battle Mountain Sanitarium for brief, intensive treatments for musculoskeletal and respiratory conditions.

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