These sources are either non-specific references to the hospitals in Richmond,
or important sources on the general policies on the treatment of
patients.
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/25/1861; many sick and wounded
are arriving in Richmond and put in private homes for treatment - notes
that they suffer "like heroes"; Committee for their reception is
constantly at work |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/27/1861; brief description of the
hospital at Mason Hall Church; also description of the "Springfield
Temperance" hospital (future GH#26), in the same neighborhood; notes
they are both filling up |
|
National
Archives, M437 |
7/27/1861; Surg. W. A. Carrington
has been taken prisoner at First Manassas |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/1/1861; families who have sick
and wounded soldiers in their homes are requested to call their family
physicians or report to "hospital on 26th, near Main" (probably
Ross' factory) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/12/1861; editorial noting the crowded
conditions in the hospitals |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/19/1861; addenda to the hospital list of the
17th - adds Samaritan and Gamble's Hill Hospital, both under the auspices of
the YMCA |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
9/27/1861; Roger Martin's school will re-open,
after its use as a hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/2/1861; very detailed account of
the ladies' & state hospitals in Richmond - gives statistics and
descriptions |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/3/1861; 230 sick soldiers arrive from
Manassas |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/5/1861; 100 sick soldiers arrive in the city
and conveyed to the hospitals |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/5/1861; corrections to the
statistics of the ladies’ hospitals in Richmond. Warwick House and Company G
Hospital have not been keeping good books. Death rate is between 3.2 - 3.7% |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/7/1861;
More than 100
sick arrive for hospitals via the Central railroad |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/11/1861;
Vice President
Alexander Stephens visits Georgia Hospitals daily |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/28/1861; New hospital is established on Clay
street, between Fifth and Sixth under Mrs. Phillip Mayo |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/30/1861;
Adv. for nurses
needed at Warwick Hosp., south side of Broad betw. 23rd & 24th Sts. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/8/1861; card noting that Wm. A. Carrington
has his (private) office on Main street |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
1/18/1862; White woman badly burned at Church Hill hospital (unnamed) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
2/3/1862;
Geo. W. Briggs, Surgeon PACS, offers his
house, corner 27 & Broad, for rent |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
2/20/1862; Hospital paymaster’s office is at the corner of Marshall and 26th |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/5/1862; unusually large shipments of sick soldiers taxes city
transportation |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
5/6/1862; men not getting to hospitals, sleeping on streets, Libby Hill,
etc. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
5/6/1862; Oakwood filling up fast, hospitals crowded – paper suggests the
hospitals are “killing off” soldiers |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
5/19/1862; W. A. W. Spotswood, Surg. CSN, having trouble organizing local
CSN Hospital |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
5/31/1862; ladies of the various churches are
requested to make bedding for the hospitals |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/2/1862; 5
surgeons shot at 7 Pines, 4 from Hatton’s Brigade |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/2/1862; Dr. J.
H. Jones, Manchester Hosp., digs out explosive bullet from leg of soldiers |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/2/1862; Griswold
urges all mattresses turned in for use of wounded |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/3/1862; Dr. E.
S. Gaillard’s arm indeed amputated |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
6/3/1862; people who have beef and hog bladders
are requested to send them to the hospitals to use as ice bags |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
6/3/1862; anyone with furniture wagons or
buggies should bring them to the York River depot to transport the wounded |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
6/4/1862; gratuitous praise for ladies working
in hospitals |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/4/1862;
Dibrell’s Warehouse near RYRRR impressed into hospital duty |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/4/1862; Many
churches sent pew cushions to Med. Dir |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/4/1862; F.
Sorrell, Inspector of Hospitals, orders all patients to register |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/6/1862; City
Arms Hotel Hosp., 15th St., established by Capt. Alexander; McDaniel’s Jail
known as Castle Godwin |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/6/1862; List of
wounded in Mrs. Jackson’s Hosp., Franklin between 4 & 5 |
|
Richmond
Whig |
6/10/1862; appeal for a listing of patients in Richmond - mentions the
difficulty in canvassing the many hospitals and the “streets of sick and
wounded” at Camp Winder and Chimborazo |
|
Richmond
Whig |
6/19/1862; description of Dr.
Gaillard’s wounding at the battle of Seven Pines |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
6/20/1862; Seven Pines wounded cleared from hospitals; less
than 900 under treatment; mortality small; half ready for service |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/21/1862;
editorial paragraph relating that the hospitals are beginning to empty out |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
6/26/1862; new hospitals have been opened "in
the lower part of the city" in anticipation of "the next fight." Hospitals
previously established have been emptied. Masons offer their lodges as
hospitals, but are turned down |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/28/1862;
editorial on hospital access. Gives anecdote about Seabrook’s |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/2/1862;
paragraph on wounded committee & on ladies at hospitals |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/2/1862;
ambulance committee using omnibuses from Petersburg railroads |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/3/1862; wounded
temporarily at Old Market Hall & store of Angus & Byerly. Need attention &
transfer to real hospitals |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
7/3/1862; wounded Confederates have temporarily
been placed in the store of Angus & Byerly at the Old Market |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/4/1862; Dr.
Jos. E. Clagett & E. L. Wager running the Market Hall Hospital |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/11/1862;
shortage of night nurses at city hospitals |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/12/1862; 3 or 4
washerwomen needed at Dunlop & Moncure Hospital, corner 11th and Cary |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/15/1862; free
negroes conscripted as hospital nurses – most released because they proved
other employment |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
7/15/1862; many letters have been received
complaining of conditions in the hospitals - call for reform |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/15/1862; long
editorial on the hospitals |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/19/1862; Dunlop
& Moncure hospital “in rear of American Hotel” |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/22/1862; Ladies
at First Baptist Church Hospital thank a Mecklenburg lady for provisions |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/24/1862; Stores
on Main Street below 14th all cleared of wounded – now empty |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/25/1862; Ladies
of “Soldiers’ Home Hospital” thank Mrs. Jane D. Winston of Hanover County |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/25/1862; Wm. A.
Carrington, Surgeon in charge at Richardson’s, Dooley’s & U. S. Hotel
hospitals thanks donors |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/25/1862; Surg. Wm. A. Carrington,
surgeon at “temporary” hospitals of Richardson’s and Dooley’s, “and now of
the U. S. Hotel Hospital” gives thanks for donations |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
8/1/1862;
Surgeons burning tar near hospitals to clear the air |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
8/2/1862; the hospitals on Main street are now
mostly closed, with the patients sent elsewhere |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
8/2/1862; tar burning is now used to disinfect
the hospitals |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
8/5/1862; Mrs.
Bruce of Halifax, Va., sends supplies to Camp Winder; Mrs. Irvine of
Halifax, Va., sends supplies to Centenary & Samaritan Hospitals |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
8/11/1862;
Mason’s Hall Hospital on 25th Street, Union Hill |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
8/21/1862; Mayo
factory on 19th between Main and Franklin |
|
Richmond
Whig |
9/23/1862; hospital statistics so far for Richmond
hospitals: 99,508 admitted and 7,603 died. |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/24/1862; dairy for the use of the Richmond
hospitals is proposed - carload of cows to arrive on the Central road |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/26/1862; Editorial paragraph praising the
Hospital Bill. Notes the surgeons are not to blame, but rather the poor
system. |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/26/1862; excellent description of the Senate
debate on the hospital bill. Praises Clopton, St. Francis de Sales,
Louisiana Hospital, and Winder Hospital. Gives some statistics not available
elsewhere. Generally praises hospitals run by women |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
9/26/1862; Surgeon General's report
on Richmond and Petersburg hospitals. Notes that, up to this time, almost
100,000 patients have been treated in Richmond hospitals. Includes
mortality figures. |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/30/1862; Report of the Select Committee on
Hospitals; reports on hospitals in Richmond and elsewhere and what to do
about them - recommends reforms such as matrons, purchasing agents, and
effective hospital funds. Mentions many current matrons, including S. L.
Tompkins, Mrs. Clopton, Mrs. Hopkins, several heretofore unknown
matrons at Winder Hospital, and many others. Gives statistics of Winder and
Chimborazo Hospitals. Excellent article. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/22/1862;
Mitchell & McCarthy, lumber dealers, adv for 10 or 12 carpenters “to work on
hospitals” |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/24/1862;
nurses and laundresses needed at a C. S. smallpox hospital, presumably in
Richmond. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/9/1862; City
Council: discusses CSA smallpox hospital, now near corner 25th & Cary; 798
kegs of powder in city magazine; sells settees from Mechanics’ Hall to
Govt., for use of patients at Chimborazo Hospital |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
12/31/1862; excellent account of the Christmas
dinner at Div. 1, Winder Hospital sponsored by the matron, Mrs. Mason. Also
notes the kind treatment of patients by the matrons at the Banner Hospital.
Praises the hospital bill and its provisions for matrons |
|
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 |
|
M437, Reel 87 |
3/26/1863; letter from Surgeon General Moore
arguing against Wm. A. Carrington's assignment as Medical Director |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6,
Vol. 708, p. 112 |
4/20/1863; Medical Directors office
has been moved - it is now two doors from the Mechanics' Institute |
|
RG
109, Ch. 6, Vol. 7, no page |
9/28/1863; Medical Director's Office has been
moved to "new government building" at 10th and Broad; wayside hospital has
been transferred to the Engineer bureau - henceforth General Hospital #9
will be known as the Receiving and Way Hospital |
|
Richmond
Whig |
2/24/1864; lamentation that the
Confederate Government will not give the Alms House back to the city. Notes
that "Chimborazo, Camp Winder, Howard’s Grove, etc., afford ample room for
all the sick and wounded soldiers brought to this military department" and
if they fill up, there are many other places to put the patients |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/29/1864; Richmond hospitals are
said to send all the patients to Petersburg, and to clean out all the
hospitals in preparation for the spring campaign |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/21/1864; William Carrington
advertises for the services of qualified physicians in all the hospitals in
Virginia |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/26/1864; praise of Chimborazo,
Winder, Jackson and Howard’s Grove Hospitals, and states that there is ample
space in those hospitals to accommodate any contingency; criticizes an
unnamed hospital for lack of attention to patients |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/7/1864; many patients in hospitals
cannot be furloughed because their homes are in Yankee hands; those along
the canal are requested to take them. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/1/1889; obituary notice for Samuel
P. Moore, former Surgeon-General of the Confederacy |
