Harewood General Hospital (Corcoran Farm)
2012-02-02

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1862-09-04
1862-09-04
1866-05-20
1866-05-20

Located on the rolling hills of the Corcoran Farm, the hospital was built in a "V" pavilion style. A few wooden barracks and a brick farm house were incorporated into the hospital arrangements. The hospital consisted of nine wards, with 63 beds each, for a total of 945 beds. To these were added hospital tents, each of which held six beds. At one point, 312 hospital tents were in use on the site, with a capacity of 1,872 beds. In the bed census of Dec. 17, 1864, the hospital had 2,080 beds, with 1207 occupied, under the direction of Surgeon R. A. Bontecon, U.S.V.

Sources:

  • "Washington and Georgetown, D.C.," Indexes to Field Records of Hospitals, 1821-1912, Manuscript Record Group 94, National Archives. View source information 
  • The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1861-1865), part 3, vol 1, (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888).
    939, 941, 960 View source information