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Quarter Master Department Employees, Hospital for
Last Modified:
2011-10-21 09:42 PM
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Hospital
Beginning date (not before):
1863-11-01
Beginning date (not after):
1863-11-01
Ending date (not before):
1865-01-01
Ending date (not after):
1865-12-31
Additional Information:
The hospital for employees of the Quarter Master's Department opened in the barracks near St. Aloysius Church which had been occupied by St. Aloysius General Hospital.
Sources
"Washington and Georgetown, D.C.,"
Indexes to Field Records of Hospitals, 1821-1912
, Manuscript Record Group 94, National Archives.
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St. Aloysius General Hospital
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Relationship updated: 2011-12-08 09:52 PM
Dates: Oct 07, 1862 - Oct 29, 1863
Place information: The hospital was located in wooden barracks in the St. Aloysius Church. When St. Aloysius General Hospital closed, its patients were sent to Stanton and Harewood hospitals. The barracks then became the hospital for Quarter Master Department employees. George M. Anderson's article describes how the parishioners of St. Aloysius rallied to rapidly build barracks near St. Aloysius church so that it would not be used as a hospital after the military requisitioned it. The Catholic clergy felt that allowing the military to use the church itself would violate its sanctity.