:: General Hospital #6 ::

Information about General Hospital #6 in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

Also called: Keen Hospital. Formerly the building of Keen, Baldwin and Company, dry goods. Opened before June 1862 with 86 patients. Destroyed in evacuation fire. Location: northside of Main Street near intersection of Governor Street. Approximately present 1306 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.)

RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 151, p. 9 9/1862 - 1/1863; Statistics of General Hospital #6 - hospital closed after January, 1863

Written Accounts

Richmond Dispatch	5/31/1862; paragraph on new Hosps: Keen, Baldwin & Wms. (descr.)/ Ginter, Alvery & Arents/Kents
Richmond Dispatch	6/3/1862; Baldwin & Williams announce they’ve been evicted by govt - bldg to be a hospital
Richmond Enquirer	6/6/1862; casualty list from Seven Pines, listing the hospitals where wounded were taken. Keen, Baldwin and Company has 87 patients.
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
Richmond Dispatch	7/12/1862; Keen Hospital adv for 5 washerwomen
Richmond Dispatch	7/14/1862; 5 washerwomen needed at Keen Hospital (GH#6)
Richmond Dispatch	7/31/1862; Baldwin & Williams explain new temporary address (14th and Main) – old building now a hospital
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. IV	8/1/1862; order from F. Sorrel, re-designating existing hospitals into Gen. Hosps. with numbers.
Ledger of Confederate Hospital Practice	no date; list of Surgeons at General Hospital #6
Ledger of Confederate Hospital Practice	no date; Rules and Regulations for General Hospital #6
Richmond Dispatch	8/15/1862; Keen Hospital acknowledges donations. Surg. B. C. Fishburn in charge
Richmond Dispatch	8/28/1862; B. C. Fishburne, Surg. in Charge at Keen Hospital wants all “out-door” patients to report
Richmond Dispatch	9/16/1862; J. W. Wilson, steward at Keen Hospital, adv for 4 negro men to do light work
Richmond Enquirer	9/30/1862; tabular report of sick & wounded soldiers in the Hospitals in Richmond
Library of Congress	10/6/1862; reports on the capacities of Richmond Hospitals and empty beds
Library of Congress	10/16/1862; reports on the capacities of Richmond Hospitals, empty beds, and Patients in them
Richmond Dispatch	10/20/1862; W. Wilson, steward at Keen Hospital, adv for 2 negro men & 4 negro women
Richmond Dispatch	10/22/1862; A. Brogden, Asst. Surg. Keen Hospital adv for lost horse
Library of Congress	11/1/1862; reports on the capacities of Richmond Hospitals, empty beds, and Patients in them
E. N. Wood CSR, M331	March 1863 report for GH#11 & Nov. 1862 for GH#6
RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 151, p. 9	9/1862 - 1/1863; Statistics of General Hospital #6 - hospital closed after January, 1863

Written Accounts

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