| :: Ross Factory Hospital :: |
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Information about Ross Factory Hospital in Richmond, VA during
the Civil War. |
Tobacco factory of W. B. Ross. Northwest corner of 26th and Main Streets.
Opened 3 September 1861 for Union prisoners. Had 300 patients on 1864 list. Drs.
Vest, Taylor and Hancock. Attached to General Hospital #21.
(from
Confederate Military Hospitals in Richmond by Robert W. Waitt, Jr., Official
Publication #22 Richmond Civil War Centennial committee, Richmond, Virginia
1964.)
Also known as Main street Hospital
Images
| 1865
Photograph
of Ross Factory, Library of Congress |
Written Accounts
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Richmond Dispatch |
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 |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
4/16/1861; Ad (including rates) for
Main Street Hospital for slaves |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
7/15/1861; brief description of
"the hospital on 26th street;" probably Ross' factory |
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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) |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
8/2/1861; hospital established for prisoners at
Ross' Factory |
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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
Examiner |
9/26/1861; 50 patients in Main Street Hospital
(Ross' Factory) |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
10/4/1861; 4th Main soldier escaped from Ross'
Factory. Captured at Tunstall's Station by Dr. Tazewell Tyler, Mr. Apperson
& Wm. W. New |
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Richmond
Examiner |
10/4/1861; Yankee prisoner escapes from Ross'
Factory |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
10/16/1861; 36 prisoners transferred from the
General Hospital to the Confederate States Hospital (probably Ross Factory) |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
10/24/1861;
Four POWs (named)
died 10/23 at Prison hospital |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
11/18/1861; great description of the prison
system in Richmond with list of employees (included Wirz and Higginbotham).
Notes that over 2000 POWs now in Richmond |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
2/24/1862; only 138 prisoners left in Richmond;
Ross' factory no longer to be prison, Howard's factory to remain a prison |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
6/6/1862; casualty list from Seven Pines,
listing the hospitals where wounded were taken. Ross Factory has 57
patients. |
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Joseph
F. Powell file, M346 |
6/13/1862; $1175.52 paid for
carpentry work done on Ross Factory Hospital:
itemized list |
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Richmond Dispatch |
7/3/1862;
provisions for wounded should be sent to hospital at 25th and
Main |
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Richmond Enquirer |
5/24/1864; several new hospitals for prisoners
opened, 800 patients in them now and daily increasing |
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Richmond
Examiner |
5/25/1864; wounded prisoners at GH#21, Ross
Factory, & 2nd Alabama |
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Richmond
Whig |
6/2/1864; tobacco factories on Main
and Franklin near Church Hill have been re-occupied as prisons, and the
guards are forcing people off the sidewalk. Major Turner puts a stop to this
practice |
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05/02/2008
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