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The name St. Elizabeth's was derived from the colonial-era name for the tract of land on which the hospital was built. After the Civil War and the closing of the Army's hospital, the St. Elizabeth's name was used unofficially and intermittently until 1916. Congress passed legislation changing the name from the Government Hospital for the Insane ...
Plans of St. Elizabeths Hospital West Cemetery 1890. A plaque on a wall of the West cemetery states: [3] Founded during the Civil War for wounded soldiers that died on the St Elizabeths Campus during and after the Civil War. This small cemetery houses the remains of some 300 Civil War dead, both Confederate and Union, Black and White.
These were not the first hospital ships employed by the Civil War governments; previous ships used as hospitals, like the hospital ship CSS St. Philip (formerly the Star of the West) in September 1861 and April 1862, retained patients for long periods of time (30–90 days easily) and stayed on station rarely travelling. The Sanitary Commission ...
Photo Name [1] Number [1] Opened [4] Notes Dry Barn / Cow Barn 82 1884 Horse Barn / Stable 83 1902 Blackburn Laboratory 88 1931 R Building 89 1902 W. W. Eldridge Building
Pages in category "American Civil War hospitals" The following 78 pages are in this category, out of 78 total. ... Campus of St. Elizabeths Hospital; St. Thomas Chapel;
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. Founded in 1875 by the Hospital Sisters of St. Francis, St. Elizabeth’s will celebrate its 150th anniversary next year. In 2015, ...
At the end of the war, the Freedmen's Bureau purchased the Barry farm north of St. Elizabeths Hospital and divided the land into 1 acre (0.40 ha) lots. The area remained farmland, and the lots were sold to former slaves; within two years, 500 families owned property.
This is a list of U.S. Marine Hospitals and Public Health Service Hospitals that operated during the system's existence from 1798 to 1981. The primary beneficiary of the hospitals were civilian mariners known as the Merchant Marine, although they had other beneficiaries at various times; the system was unrelated to the U.S. Marine Corps.