Also called: Royster’s Hospital, First Alabama Hospital. Formerly tobacco
factory of J. B. and A. L. Royster for Royster Brothers and Company). The First
Alabama Hospital was first located in Manchester, VA. After 1862 it was at 25th
and Franklin Streets becoming General Hospital #20.Opened before June 1862.
Report of 4 June 1862 lists 44 patients, but building had a very large capacity.
Location: just south of Franklin Street on eastside of 25th Street.
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Richmond
Dispatch |
6/25/1861; slave of J. B. Royster
is arrested and punished for masquerading as a soldier |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
8/3/1861; article about the organization of the
Alabama hospital - includes detailed letter from Mrs. Hopkins (notes the
date of organization, etc.) |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
9/25/1861; list of hospitals in Richmond with
current capacities. Notes that POWs are at the General Hospital |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
10/2/1861; very detailed account of
the ladies' & state hospitals in Richmond - gives statistics and
descriptions |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
11/11/1861;
slave of James
Royster whipped for stealing coffee from Ga. Hospital |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
12/10/1861; new hospitals at factories of
Grant (GH#12) and Roysters (GH#20) |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
2/1/1862;
D. Crenshaw adv for 12 male nurses for
Royster Hosp, 25th St. 6 white & 6 black |
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Summary of William Liggan file, M346, National Archives |
2/8/1862; carpentry done to Royster's Factory. |
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Richmond Dispatch |
3/3/1862; Dr. O. A. Crenshaw examining recruits & substitutes at Royster
Hospital (future GH#20) |
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Richmond Dispatch |
3/6/1862; Royster’s Hospital, 25th St. (future GH#20) needs 6
white nurses, 4 black nurses, 1 cook |
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Summary of William Liggan file, M346, National Archives |
3/18/1862; extensive carpentry done to
Royster's Factory. |
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William
S. Campbell letter |
3/18/1862; description of 1st Alabama Hospital
and surgeons; mentions Mrs. Hopkins and 2nd Alabama Hospital |
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Summary of William Liggan file, M346, National Archives |
5/1/1862; extensive carpentry done to Royster's
Factory. |
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Richmond Dispatch |
5/23/1862; O. A. Crenshaw is Surgeon in Charge, Royster Hosp |
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Richmond Dispatch |
5/26/1862; J. D. Morgan at First Alabama Hospital, warns out-patients to
report or be AWOL |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
6/6/1862; casualty list from Seven Pines,
listing the hospitals where wounded were taken. Royster's has 44 patients. |
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Richmond Dispatch |
6/17/1862; V. W.
Harrison signs as Asst. Surgeon in charge of Royster Hospital (future GH#20) |
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Richmond Dispatch |
6/21/1862; V. W.
Harrison, Asst. Surg. In charge, Royster Hosp., orders absentees to report |
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Richmond Dispatch |
6/25/1862; C. J.
Clark, Surgeon in charge "Ala hospitals" |
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Richmond Dispatch |
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 |
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Richmond Dispatch |
6/28/1862; V. W.
Harrison, Surg in charge Royster Hosp adv for nurses |
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Richmond Dispatch |
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 |
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Richmond Dispatch |
7/15/1862;
Alabama Hospitals wish to purchase milk & buttermilk. Apply at First Alabama
Hospital (Broad, bw 23 & 24) of Third Alabama Hospital (cor 21 and Franklin) |
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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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Report of Hospital Committee |
1862; Congressional report
describing the Richmond hospital system. Notes that State hospitals are
superior to the Government ones. Describes the "Bird's Island Hospital" as
"obnoxious," but describes the General Hospital, Banner Hospital, and
Royster's factory favorably. Says that Royster's is a "model of neatness."
Also comments negatively on the system of furloughs and discharges |
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Ledger
of Confederate Hospital Practice |
no date; Rules and Regulations for General
Hospital #20 |
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Ledger of
Confederate Hospital Practice |
no date; list of Surgeons at General Hospital
#20 |
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Richmond Dispatch |
8/6/1862; W. C.
Ashe, surgeon in charge 1st Alabama Hospital orders outpatients
to report |
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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; death
notice, R. N. Holstead, ex-Parker’s Battery, died 10/5, typhoid, age 22 yrs,
1 month, 2 days. Druggist at Royster Hospital at the time of his death.
Funeral at Union Station Methodist Church |
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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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Richmond Dispatch |
12/13/1862; very
long list of Castle Thunder accessions, giving name, unit, offense. Includes
man sent from GH#20 for bad conduct. 3 females there sent North yesterday |
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V. W.
Harrison CSR, M331 |
2/28/1863; list of surgeons at GH#20 |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
5/8/1863; ten negro nurses are
needed at General Hospital #20 |
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RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 151, p. 26 |
9/1862 - 6/1863; Statistics of General Hospital
#20 - hospital closed after June, 1863 |
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Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VI, p. 1050 |
11/20/1863; Mentioned. |
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Official Records, Series II, Vol VI, page 1086. |
11/23/1863; Carrington reiterates Texas
Hospital not fit for prison use, and requests that GHs #20 & #23 be used as
prison hospitals. |
| B. P. Harrison CSR, M331 |
various dates; supplies and other details,
GH#20 |
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V. W.
Harrison CSR, M331 |
2/28/1863; list of surgeons at GH#20 |
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National Tribune |
9/13/1883; description of prison life at Castle
Thunder and "Royster House" (GH#20) |
| Red Dirt and Isinglass, pp. 383-90 |
p. 389 describes hospital as "a large three
story building and was originally a tobacco factory. The first floor is used
for a dining room, the second and third for the sick." |
