Also called: Union Hospital, Union Hotel Hospital, United States Hotel Hospital.
Formerly the Union Hotel. This unique building was rich in local history. Built
in 1817 by Dr. John Adams and designed by Richmond’s first architect Otis
Manson. The Union was the first real hotel to be built in the City. Used by the
medical College of Virginia as its fist Richmond home when it was begun here in
1838. After 1845 reopened as a hotel and named United Sates Hotel. A Confederate
hospital from July 1862 to close of the War. Was for many years the home of
Richmond Theological Seminary from which developed the present Virginia Union
University. In its latter years was the home of Richmond Methodist Mission. Torn
down 1911. Generally used for officers. Dr. William A. Carrington,
surgeon-in-charge. Capacity was over 300 patients. Location: southwest corner of
19th and Main Streets, facing on Main. Present site numbered 1821-3-5
East Main Street. (from Confederate Military Hospitals in Richmond
by Robert W. Waitt, Jr., Official Publication #22 Richmond Civil War Centennial
committee, Richmond, Virginia 1964.)
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Richmond
Dispatch |
4/15/1861; Virginia Rifles are
stationed at the "old U. S. Hotel" (later GH#10) |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
4/24/1861; Co. K, 1st Virginia
Inf., is headquartered in the old U. S. Hotel (later GH#10) |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
5/20/1861; area near the old United
States Hotel (later GH#10) is the scene of bloody fights and drunken revelry |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
1/29/1862; sales notice, 1/6 of the U. S. Hotel |
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Richmond Dispatch |
5/29/1862; U. S. Hotel apparently vacant. Man mugged inside & illegal bar
found on 3rd floor. Muggers taken to Castle Godwin. |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
5/29/1862; man mugged at the United States
Hotel - perpetrators hauled off to Castle Godwin |
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Richmond Dispatch |
6/27/1862; U. S.
Hotel being fumigated - to open as hospital |
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Richmond Dispatch |
6/27/1862; O. A.
Crenshaw, in charge Union Hotel Hosp., wants 20 male nurses & 10 laundresses |
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Richmond
Examiner |
6/27/1862; U. S. Hotel (GH#10) to
be converted to hospital use |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
7/2/1862; 20 male nurses and 10 laundresses
needed at Union Hotel Hospital (GH#10) |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
7/3/1862; Old U. S. Hotel turned into a
hospital (GH#10) |
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Richmond Dispatch |
7/10/1862; Lt. S.
Galloway, 3 NC, lying severely wounded at U. S. Hotel Hospital, looking for
strayed slave |
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Richmond Dispatch |
7/25/1862; Wm. A.
Carrington, Surgeon in charge at Richardson’s, Dooley’s & U. S. Hotel
hospitals thanks donors |
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Richmond
Examiner |
7/25/1862; Wm. Carrington, surgeon at GH#10
thanks contributors; says Carrington is also in charge of "temporary
hospitals" |
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National Archives, RG 109, Ch. IV |
8/1/1862; order from F. Sorrel, re-designating
existing hospitals into Gen. Hosps. with numbers. |
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Ledger of
Confederate Hospital Practice |
no date; list of Surgeons at General Hospital
#10 |
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Ledger
of Confederate Hospital Practice |
no date; Rules and Regulations for General
Hospital #10 |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
9/30/1862; tabular report of sick & wounded
soldiers in the Hospitals in Richmond |
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Library of Congress |
10/6/1862; reports on the capacities of
Richmond Hospitals and empty beds |
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Richmond Dispatch |
10/7/1862; Dr. O.
A. Crenshaw in charge, GH#10, corner Main & 19th, adv for clerk |
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Library of Congress |
10/16/1862; reports on the capacities of
Richmond Hospitals, empty beds, and Patients in them |
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Library of Congress |
11/1/1862; reports on the capacities of
Richmond Hospitals, empty beds, and Patients in them |
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William
A. Carrington CSR (M331) (no. 26) |
1/7/1863; Memo regarding gangrene at Genl.
Hospls. #1, 8, 10, 4, and the Louisiana Hospl. |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
8/10/1863; list of hospitals in Richmond and to
which hospitals soldiers from the various states are sent |
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Richmond Sentinel |
9/21/1863; list of hospitals in Richmond and to
which hospitals soldiers from the various states are sent |
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RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 151, p. 16 |
9/1862 - 11/1863; Statistics of General
Hospital #10 - hospital closed after November, 1863 |
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Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VI, p. 1086-87 |
12/18/1863; Medical Director Carrington directs
GH #10 closed as a hospital |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
1/7/1864; guard at "the old U. S.
Hotel" is arrested for being drunk and disorderly in the streets |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
1/13/1864; Texas, Alabama Hospitals, GH#10,
GH#11 permanently closed and patients moved to Howard's Grove. |
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Richmond
Examiner |
8/4/1864; North Carolina Soldiers'
Home is at the old Union hotel; surgeon from GH#24 is in charge of relief
assn. |
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R. A. Brock notes |
1880; notes on various Richmond
sights and their current condition - mentions Libby Prison, Castle Godwin,
Castle Thunder (recently destroyed by fire), Robertson Hospital (great
physical description), Drewry's Bluff, and the Union Hotel (now used to
train missionaries) |
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New York
Times |
4/19/1891; part eleven of
serialized account of life in Libby. Recounts the author's near-exchange,
and subsequent return to Richmond, only to be put in General Hospital #10 |
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New York
Times |
4/26/1891; part twelve of
serialized account of life in Libby. Good description of GH#10 as a Union
prison hospital - indicates that the hospital was in conjunction with Libby
Prison in 1864. |
