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.)
|
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 |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/17/1862; GH#6
is “opposite Dispatch office.” |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/27/1862; R. B.
Richardson, Keen Hospital, corner Main & 13th adv for negro escaped from
Castle Thunder |
| E. N. Wood CSR, M331 |
March 1863 report for GH#11 & Nov. 1862 for
GH#6 |
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RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 151, p. 9 |
9/1862 - 1/1863; Statistics of General Hospital
#6 - hospital closed after January, 1863 |
