Existing comment:
St. Elizabeths Hospital has two cemeteries where soldiers from the Civil War are interred. The Civil War cemetery on the west campus has approximately 300 graves. White and African American soldiers from the Union army and soldiers of the Confederacy are interspersed throughout the cemetery. Many of the stone markers are worn, cracked or broken. Some have been destroyed. The cemetery is in poor condition. On the east side of the hospital grounds is another cemetery that includes Civil War veterans as well as veterans from World Wars I and II and the Spanish American War. Records listing names, ranks and the branch of service of the soldiers are maintained at the National Archives and Records Association (NARA).
* Buildings were named after Henry L. Dawes, Republican Massachusetts, Chairman of House Committee on Appropriations from 1869 to 1971; James A. Garfield, Republican Ohio, Chairman of House Committee on Appropriations from 1871 to 1875; and John DC Atkins, Democrat Tennessee, Chairman of House Committee on Appropriations from 1877 to 1881.
** Buildings were named after William B. Allison, Republican Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee from 1881 to 1893 and 1895 to 1908.
Major source of this information: The Museum of Civil War Medicine |