Caring for the Wounded in Our Nation’s Capital Federal General Hospitals The title of United States Army General Hospital applied to facilities where soldiers from any military unit, unlike Division or Corps Hospitals. Image: Harewood Hospital Washington DC From 1861 through 1865, General Hospitals treated more than one million soldiers with a mortality rate of only eight percent, the lowest ever recorded for military hospitals and better than many civilian facilities. Washington’s sixteen General Hospitals comprised nearly 30,000 beds. Harewood General Hospital In 1852 financier William Wilson Corcoran purchased 191 acres to use as a country estate east of the Seventh Street Turnpike and north of what is now McMillan Reservoir. In 1862 Harewood Hospital was built on Corcoran’s property…
