Smith, F. L. (private residence), Alexandria, Va. On corner of Wolfe and Pitt streets, Branch of first division United States General Hospital.

1 Soldiers' Rest General Hospital (branch of first division General Hospital), located near depot of Orange and Alexandria Railway, Alexandria.

St. Aloysius, Washington, D. C. This building was erected by and at the expense of St. Aloysius (Catholic) congregation, on a square between K and L streets north and First street west and North Capitol, to be used, instead of their church, which the exigencies of the war demanded, for the accommodation of the sick and wounded. Opened October, 1862; is still continued as a post hospital.

St. Elizabeth, Washington County, D. C. This hospital consisted of the new east wing of the Government Insane Hospital, situated on a commanding elevation, about 2 miles south of the city. Opened December, 1862; closed May 28, 1864. Stanton, Washington, D. C. Frame buildings erected on square bounded by H and I streets north and Second and Third west. Opened December, 1862; closed October 19, 1865.

Stone, Washington County, D. C. Country residence of the late W. J. Stone, just outside the corporate limits, at the northern terminus of Fourteenth street, and opposite Columbian College. Opened April, 1862; closed July 1, 1865.

Union Hotel, Georgetown, D. C. Northeast corner of Bridge and Washington streets Opened May, 1861; closed March, 1863.

1 Washington Hall General Hospital (branch of the second division General Hospital), located in Washington Hall, corner of Washington and King streets, Alexandria. Washington Infirmary, Washington, D. C. On Judiciary square. Taken possession of by the army for a hospital in April, 1861, and occupied until destroyed by fire. November 3, 1861.

Waters, Joseph (warehouse), Georgetown, D. C. On High street, between Bridge and Water streets. Opened September, 1862; closed October, 1862.

II.

As an outgrowth of the extensive hospital work done during the rebellion the Army Medical Museum was established. The act of April 7, 1866, authorized the purchase of the property in Washington City known as Ford's Theater, for the deposit and safekeeping of documentary papers relating to soldiers of the Army of the United States and of the Museum of the Medical and Surgical Department of the Army, and during the following year the property was bought for $88,000. This building was occupied by the Museum until the completion of the present Museum building, on the corner of Seventh and B streets southwest. In this Museum are collected and preserved pathological specimens representing nearly every disease and accident that occurred in the Army and Navy during the war. The Medical and Surgical History of the War and the Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office are monumental works.2

Several of the hospitals established during the war were continued for some time thereafter. The Kalorama Hospital was open to citizens of the District on payment of $1.50 a day, and St. Aloysius Hospital

Hospitals not given in Dr. Toner's list, but in records of the War Department, December 10, 1897.

2 The Ford's Theater building, now occupied by the medical records of the soldiers of the rebellion, was erected about 1833 as a Baptist church, for which purpose it was used until 1860, when John T. Ford bought it to use as a theater. He rebuilt it after the fire of 1863. As a theater, it was the most popular place of amusement in Washington up to April 14, 1865, when President Lincoln was assassinated there.

became on May 1, 1866, the Washington City Post Hospital for the treatment of enlisted men stationed at the barracks and camps around Washington and for the quartermaster's employees. The Freedmen's Hospital will receive attention later.

III.

In order to complete the record of strictly Governmental hospital work, it is necessary to mention briefly the Military Asylum, popularly known as the Soldiers' Home, and the Naval Hospital. The former of these institutions was created by the act approved March 3, 1851, which appropriated any unexpended balance of the appropriation made March 2, 1847, then remaining in the Treasury for the benefit of discharged soldiers disabled by wounds; the sum of $118,791.19 levied by the commanding general of the Army of the United States in Mexico during the war with that Republic, for the benefit of the soldiers of the United States Army, regulars and volunteers, engaged in that war, but taken possession of as funds of the United States and placed in the Treasury; all stoppages or fines adjudged against soldiers by sentence of courts-martial, over and above any amount that may be due for the reimbursement of the Government or of individuals; all forfeitures on account of desertion; all moneys, not exceeding two-thirds of the balance on hand, of the hospital fund and post fund of each military station, after deducting the necessary expenses of the year, and all moneys belonging to the estates of deceased soldiers which are now or may hereafter be unclaimed for the period of three years subsequent to the death of such soldier or soldiers, to be repaid by the commissioners of the institution upon demand of the heirs or legal representatives of the deceased.

The location of the asylum was determined by Gen. Winfield Scott, who had confiscated the property that was sold to create the fund on which the establishment was based. The original site was purchased in 1853, additions being made in 1875 and 1876; the total cost was $436,080.94, of which sum $100,000 represents the cost of the original purchase.1

The officers of the Home for 1896 were Brig. Gen. David S. Stanley, governor; Capt. D. A. Irwin, deputy governor; Maj. Richard C. Parker, secretary and treasurer; Lieut. Col. W. H. Forwood, surgeon. There are 502 acres in the tract owned by the Home, of which about 28 are used for farming purposes, 12 for the garden, 42 for lawns, and 200 for pasturage; and there are about 200 acres in woodland, and 20 acres occupied by the buildings. The average number of officers and members present during the year ending September 30, 1896, was 688, which is a slight increase over the number reported for the year before, and a gain of only 63 over the average of ten years ago. The highest number

1Ex. Doc. No. 84, Forty-fifth Congress, second session, p. 70.

present during the year was 722, on February 28, 1896, and the lowest 657, on July 6, 1896; and the total cared for was 1,535, against 1,755 the preceding year.

Facilities for amusement consist of billiards, pool, and bagatelle tables, cards, chess, checkers, and dominoes, occasional variety entertainments, a band, and a library. Each barrack building has a sort of assembly room set aside, which is located on the ground floor in the Anderson Building and in the basement in the other four. The billiard hall is located in the basement of the Sherman Building, and contains three billiard, one pool, and two bagatelle tables. There is no charge for these games and the tables are reported in constant use. Facilities for cards and other sedentary games are reported ample, each of the five amusement rooms containing tables. The rooms are inspected daily by a commissioned officer. The band is maintained during the entire year with an average membership of 14, all of whom are members of the Home. Its cost for the past year has been $1,925.04 for pay of the musicians, and $95.97 for instruments, and 155 concerts were given. The library contains 6,074 volumes; and 32 papers and 17 periodicals are subscribed for.

There are three societies among the members, viz: Henry Wilson Post, G. A. R; Gen. William F. Barry Garrison, R. A. N. U.; and Soldiers' Home Temperance Union, with a membership of 120, 46, and 130, respectively. Divine services are held every Sunday by each chaplain in the Home chapel, which has a capacity of 250. There are three chaplains, a Catholic, an Episcopalian, and a Lutheran, who are paid $50 per month each, except the first named, who receives $15 additional for organist and choir. They do not live at the Home. In addition to their Sunday services they officiate at funerals and minister to the sick. There are five barracks at the Home, known as the Scott, Sherman, Sheridan, Anderson, and King buildings. The two first named are of stone, and the last three of brick. The Anderson, which is stuccoed and is the smallest of the five, was not originally constructed for barrack purposes, and is used principally for the band. There is room in these buildings for 710 beds; they contain 652. There are basements in all, which are used as amusement and smoking rooms, barber, tailor, uphol sterer, and shoemaker shops, museum, reading and bath rooms, and storerooms, and a few have bunks in them.

The annual expenses, exclusive of permanent improvements, have been reduced to $146,415.82, of which nearly $81,000 was met from the interest paid by the United States on the amount of the permanent fund on deposit with the United States Treasurer, and the remainder from the principal of that fund and some small incidental receipts.

The average daily number of members on outdoor relief during the year 1896 was 318.58. These beneficiaries received $26,471.06, or an

On June 30, 1896, the permanent fund amounted to $2,711,124.52. The per capita expense was $171.71.