To house the patients, fourteen pavilions were erected behind the existing building.
The first patients were admitted in October, 1864 and the formal dedication took place on Washington's Birthday in the following year.
Soon after the close of the Civil War, the government terminated the lease and auctioned the barracks and their contents.
The Dale General Hospital had a life span of fourteen months.
Later on Isaac Davis bought the building and land to make it into Worcester Academy.