Oct., Nov. and Dec., '65 — (Sundays.)
— Every Sunday of these months visited
Harewood Hospital out in the woods, pleasant and recluse, some two and a half or three miles
north of the Capitol. The situation is healthy, with broken ground, grassy slopes and patches of
oak woods, the trees large and fine. It was one of the most extensive of the Hospitals — but now
reduced to four or five partially occupied Wards, the numerous others being entirely vacant. The
patients are the leavings of the other Hospitals; many of them very sad cases indeed. In
November, this became the last Military Hospital kept up by the Government, all the others
being
closed. Cases of the worst and most incurable wounds, and obstinate illness, and of poor fellows
who have no homes to go to, are found here.
