schools (Law, Divinity, and Arts & Sciences). However, the University decided to do nothing with the additional charter. After lingering for some time, the school finally collapsed in 1851. Revival as Washington University of Baltimore At the end of the American Civil War, Dr. Edward Warren, a Confederate veteran, refounded the university, Warren's school gave express preference to students of the former slave states. as a southern medical school. The charter was revived and the school was re-christened Washington University of Baltimore. The new facility was located at the northwest corner of North Calvert and East Saratoga Streets. This site was later occupied by Baltimore City Hospital after the six Sisters of Mercy (a Roman Catholic order of nuns), and later Mercy Hospital, then Mercy Medical Center. The school created the Maryland Free Hospital. Amid a dispute, the College of Physicians and Surgeons was founded as a splinter institution. In 1872, Washington College began having financial issues, requiring an appropriation from the state of Maryland to survive. In 1878, it closed and was merged into the College of Physicians and Surgeons. A collection of student theses submitted to the college is held at the National Library of Medicine. Alumni Simon Hullihen, Class of 1832 See also https://archive.org/details/monkur-vol-1/page/n7/mode/2up - The volume includes handwritten introductory remarks by Dr. John C. Monkur, Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Washington University of Baltimore Medical School (formerly Washington Medical College) https://cpparchives.org/repositories/2/resources/1724# - Two volumes of lecture notes from a medical student at Washington University of Baltimore. Church Home and Hospital Death of Edgar Allan Poe Henry Willis Baxley History of Washington & Jefferson College Sources Educational institutions established in 1827 Defunct private universities and colleges in Maryland 1827 establishments in Maryland 1851 disestablishments in Maryland Universities and colleges in Baltimore