Mansion House Hospital
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The Mansion House Hotel served as a hospital during the occupation of Alexandria, Virginia by Union forces, during the Civil War.[1]
During the American Civil War, after Union occupation of Alexandria, Virginia, the Union seized the Mansion House Hotel and turned it into a hospital known as the Mansion House Hospital.[1]
The owners of the hotel built it in front of their luxurious home, the Carlyle House -- the "mansion" in the hotel's name.
The hospital was the largest Union hospital in the region, with 500 beds.[2] Most of the former hospital complex was torn down in the 1970s, when the State of Virginia wanted to build a park to surround and better highlight the Carlyle House mansion.
In 2016 PBS broadcast a miniseries, Mercy Street, set in the hospital.[1]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Sarah Coster (March 2011). Nurses, Spies and Soldiers: The Civil War at Carlyle House. Retrieved on 2016-01-19. “A skinny 21 year-old at the start of the war, Stringfellow used his cunning and bravery to gather intelligence for the Confederacy. He daringly crossed enemy lines multiple times, sneaking into both Alexandria and Washington.”
- ↑ Mansion House Hospital, City of Alexandria, Virginia.