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Stop #4: Healing the Wounded: (Tour of Duty: Barracks Row Heritage Trail sign)
Pennsylvania Avenue, Ninth and E Streets, SE
During the Civil War, the Navy drew up plans for a hospital, but the sturdy building now known as the Old Naval Hospital did not open until 1866, a year after the war ended. It opened with beds for 50 injured and ailing seamen as well as the carriage house/stable and gazebo that remain today. The hospital's front door originally was on E Street facing the nearby Navy Yard and Marine Barracks; later it opened from Pennsylvania Avenue.
The hospital's first patient was 24-year-old African American seaman Benjamin Drummond. Drummond was admitted in June 1866 with a gunshot wound to the leg received in a Civil War battle three years before. After escaping from a Confederate prison in Texas, Drummond returned to duty, but the old wound hadn't healed, so he was hospitalized here. In 1868 Drummond was discharged with a government pension.
By 1906 the hospital was deemed "antiquated," and it closed briefly, then reopened as the Hospital Corps Training School, where sailors learned nursing, hygiene, and anatomy. From 1922 until 1963 it was the Temporary Home for Old Soldiers and Sailors. Since 1963 the building has been leased to District of Columbia government agencies. In 2000 concerned neighbors formed the Friends of the Old Naval Hospital to promote, restore, and preserve the building and grounds.
As you walk along Ninth Street to the next Barracks Row Heritage Trail sign, be sure to note the variety of architectural styles. These homes were occupied by residents of all tastes and economic levels who lived side by side in this neighborhood.
With thanks for research by Dan Daly and Friends of the Old Naval Hospital.
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