General Hospital J. B. Gibbs an army hospital established adjacent to Camp Hamilton, named after Dr. John Blair Gibbs during the Spanish American War . Gibbs was an assistant naval surgeon with the 1st Marine Battalion. He was killed on June 12, 1898 at Guantánamo, Cuba. The hospital was the second largest hospital in the training camps.[i]
[i] Lexington Herald, October 19, 1898, page 5, columns 2-4.
References:
William M. Ambrose, Bluegrass Military Camps, Limestone Press, Lexington, 2012.
