Founded: June 20, 1862
Closed: August 1865. Patients transferred to Hicks General Hospital
Location: Steuart’s Mansion, W. Baltimore St. two miles west of Camden Station Railroad Depot, Baltimore, MD
Also known as: U.S. General Hospital Stewarts Mansion

Images

Stewart Mansion Hospital, Baltimore, Md.. Courtesy of Scott Sheads.	Jarvis General Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland. Cator Collection, Print No. 44. Enoch Pratt Free Library
MS 1860 – Jarvis Gen. Hospital – Baltimore. – Special Orders – Print. Matter – June 13, 1864 (Z24.1848). Photograph Collections Cross-Section. Maryland Historical Society	Jarvis U.S. Genl. Hospital, Baltimore, Md. / Lith & Print by E. Sachse. Images from the History of Medicine Collection, Order No. A027659. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division

Additional Information

• Dates: 1862-1865
  Notes: Hospital records available at the National Archives, Washington, DC. See RG94 Entry 553 for listing of available hospital registers.
• Dates: n. d.
  Notes: Female nurses were borne on the rolls of many of the hospitals. At one time, in the WEST’S BUILDINGS, Baltimore, Md., 20 of 70 nurses were women; at STEWART’S MANSION 15 of 70, at and BEDLOE’S ISLAND, N.Y. Harbor, 10 of 70. These were frequently Sisters of Charity — 40 served at SATTERLEE, 16 and POINT LOOKOUT and 15 at CLIFFBURNE. According to the testimony of all the medical officers who have referred to this point their best service was rendered in connection with extra diets, the linen-room and laundry. Male help was preferred in the wards, save in special cases of prostration and suffering where particular care was needful in theadministration of dietetic or remedial agents. Sometimes where no female aid was employed, female aid societies volunteered their services in superintending the extra diets and taking charge of the contribution room.
  Source: Medical and Surgical History of the Civil War, Vol. VI [Formerly entitled The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1861-1865)] Wilmington: Broadfoot Publishing Co.: 958