St. Elizabeths Hospital & the Civil War
On Saturday April 15, 2011 at Frying Pan Park Visitor Center, Keith Young, active member of Bull Run Civil War Round Table and Civil War historian, shared the history of St. Elizabeths during the Civil War. Opened in 1855, St. Elizabeths was the country’s first federal mental health facility.
During the Civil War, the Union Army [...]
