Source information
2011-12-08 09:55 PM

Bibliographic Citation:

Anderson, George M., S. J., "Bernadine Wiget, S.J. and the St. Aloysius Civil War Hospital in Washington, D.C." The Catholic Historical Review 76 (1990), 734-764.

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St. Aloysius General Hospital

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Relationship updated: 2011-12-08 09:56 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.