WAR OF 1812 HOSPITAL

In 1814, the hospital at Williamsville, New York, did not occupy the same quarters it had used the previous year, and patients were sheltered in tents while awaiting the completion of buildings designed specifically for use as a hospital. Progress on the construction was extremely slow, however, and General Izard wrote that "the jealousy and quarrels between surgeons and the Quartermaster's department of General Brown's division" were to blame. In early November 1814, the new building was still "far from ready for the reception of the sick and wounded."... Notice the two circles just below the Batavia Road where it crosses Ellicott Creek (present day Williamsville, NY) I believe that these two circles designate the locations of the War of 1812 U.S. Army Headquarters and the Hospital Cantonment which was just south of the Headquarters. Notice the mileage scale, the two circles are approximately one mile apart as the hospital was said to be a mile up the creek... During the last weeks..

Also known as: War

Primary location: Williamsville United States