Architect of the Capitol

 
Rotunda During Civil War, 1862
 
Allyn Cox
Oil on Canvas
1973-1974
 
For about six weeks in the fall of 1862 the Rotunda (as well as other chambers and hallways) was used as an emergency hospital. Among the nurses who served here were Dorothea Dix and Clara Barton, later the founder of the American Red Cross.
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