Civil War cemetery at St. Elizabeths Hospital

ID: 4358 ~ Source: Historic Americans Buildings Survey (Library of Congress) ~ Creator: Norman J. Tavan, photographer ~ Date: 1975

This file appears in: Saint Elizabeths Hospital Cemeteries: Cemeteries on Saint Elizabeths' West and East campuses offer an important window into the hospital's history.

This file appears in: Saint Elizabeths Hospital Cemeteries: Cemeteries on Saint Elizabeths' West and East campuses offer an important window into the hospital's history.

Saint Elizabeths Hospital Cemeteries: Cemeteries on Saint Elizabeths' West and East campuses offer an important window into the hospital's history.

By The DC Historic Sites team

The oldest burial ground at Saint Elizabeths was created in 1856 on the wooded western slope of the West Campus. In most cases, funeral arrangements for patients who dies at Saint Elizabeths were…