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
Civil War cemetery at St. Elizabeths Hospital
This file appears in: Saint Elizabeths Hospital Cemeteries

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 made by family members of the deceased, and the…