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Civil War Letter from Queens Street Hospital

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Civil War Letter from Queens Street Hospital
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Although mostly personal, we do learn from the letter that the author (Manley Y Welker?) has been put in charge of a ward at the hospital. The Queen Street Hospital was located at the Bellhaven Female Institute, a popular school built by Robert Brockett. Brockett constructed an addition at 603 Queen Street, “fully supplied with gas and water, and thoroughly heated with flues,” as described in the Alexandria Gazette in 1858. The Hospital opened on April 22, 1862 and became part of the Third Division of Alexandria’s US General Hospitals on Sept. 20, 1862. It closed April 25, 1865 and is now the Anchorage House Condominiums. An historic plaque marks the building. [City of Alexandria 'Union Hospitals in Alexandria' website] Date: 1864 Location: Alexandria, District of Columbia HWAC# 60924