Information about General Hospital #11 in Richmond, VA
during the Civil War.
Also called: Globe Hospital, Florida Hospital. Formerly tobacco factory of
James H. Grant and Company (not to be confused with his brother William’s
factory, see General Hospital #12). Built 1853. Still standing partially.
Records cover June 1862 through September 1863. Capacity seems to be about 150.
Location: west side of first block of north 19th Street, near
Franklin. Present site of 8-10-12 North 19th
Street. (from Confederate Military Hospitals in Richmond by Robert
W. Waitt, Jr., Official Publication #22 Richmond Civil War Centennial committee,
Richmond, Virginia 1964.)
11/3/1860; adv for the Main Street Hospital for
slaves, "near the corner of Main and 26th streets," gives prices and names
surgeons, F. W. Hancock and Peachy among them
6/28/1862;
Enormous list of wounded by hospital: Central Depot; Third Georgia; Royster;
First Alabama; St. Charles; Keen, Baldwin & Williams; Kent; Christian &
Lea’s; Ligon; Globe; Third Alabama; Institute; Fourth Georgia
6/30/1862;
Another huge hospital list: Seabrook’s; Banner; Christian & Lea’s; Globe;
Moore; Howard; Royster; Central Depot; First Alabama; Third Alabama; First
Georgia; Second Georgia; Third Georgia
4/4/1863; account of the trials of
several of the bread rioters, great details on individual cases, including
Mary Jackson and Dr. Thomas M. Palmer, surgeon at the Florida Hospital
(GH#11)
4/7/1863; account of the
arraignment of Thomas Palmer, Surgeon at the Florida Hospital; J. H. Gilmer
and G. W. Randolph are the accused's legal counsel
1/13/1864; Texas, Alabama Hospitals, GH#10,
GH#11 permanently closed and patients moved to Howard's Grove.
W. W. Hubbard CSR, M331
various dates; list of supplies for the Florida
Hospital
St. George T. Peachy CSR, M331
various dates; rations etc. for GH#11
In the National Archives:
Record Group 109,
(ch. VI, vol. 361). 1 in.
Letters, Orders, and Circulars Received, General Hospital No. 11.
1862-63. 1 vol.Copies of orders and circulars issued by the
Adjutant and Inspector General's Department, the Surgeon General's
Office, and the Medical Director's Office in Richmond, the Department of
Richmond, the Department of Northern Virginia, and the Department of
Virginia and North Carolina (also called Department of North Carolina
and Southern Virginia); of letters received, mainly from the Chief
Surgeon's Office, Department of Richmond, and the Medical Director's
Office in Richmond; and copies of a few letters sent. Arranged
chronologically. This hospital was also known as Florida Hospital.
