Also known as St. Francis; Catholic; Brook Hospital. On Brook Turnpike at
City Limits (near Bacon Quarter Branch). [Approximately in cloverleaf leading
north Belvidere Street traffic into Interstate 95.] Had formerly been Goddin’s
Tavern. Small religious operated hospital financially subsidized by Confederate
government. Opened May 1861, still in use in February 1865. Sister Juliann in
charge. Capacity 30 patients. Some female Confederate prisoners held here.
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Richmond
Dispatch |
11/3/1860; adv for St. Francis de sales
Infirmary, gives prices and names surgeons |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
5/3/1861; St. Francis de Sales
Hospital is ready to accept patients |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
6/7/1861; description of the
explosion at the house of a chemist who was mixing fulminating powder;
injured parties are at St. Francis de Sales Hospital |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
9/17/1861; "Hospitals in Richmond" list |
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Richmond Enquirer |
6/19/1861; Notes that the St. Francis de Sales
Hospital has been recently established, and is treating Confederate soldiers
- laudatory of the Catholic Church |
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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
Enquirer |
10/1/1861; 34 convalescent soldiers from
St. Francis de Sales, Medical College, and Bellevue hospitals sent to
Petersburg |
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Ledger of Confederate Hospital Practice |
no date; List of Surgeons at St. Francis de
Sales Hospital |
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Richmond Dispatch |
8/11/1862; St.
Francis de Sales adv for nurse & washer |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
9/30/1862; tabular report of sick & wounded
soldiers in the Hospitals in Richmond |
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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. |
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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 |
8/5/1862; one
male nurse needed at St. Francis de Sales |
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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 |
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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 |
10/6/1862;
sisters at St. Francis de Sales adv for whereabouts of 5AlBn man |
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Richmond Dispatch |
10/9/1862; White
male nurse wanted at St. Francis de Sales |
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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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William A.
Carrington CSR (M331) (no. 2) |
10/31/1862; inspection report of St. Francis,
Medical College Hospital, and Bellevue Hospital |
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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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William A. Carrington CSR (M331) (no. 21) |
1/28/1863; Order closing down St.
Francis de Sales & Medical College Hospitals |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
7/20/1863; a female spy is confined at St.
Francis de Sales Hospital |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
7/27/1863; Female spy at St.
Francis de Sales |
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RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 151, p. 56 |
9/1862 - 9/1863; Statistics of St. Francis de
Sales Hospital - hospital closed after January, 1863 and re-opened June 1863 |
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Richmond
Whig |
3/3/1864; Mrs. Patterson Allen
(Yankee spy) is at St. Francis de Sales Hospital |
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RG
109, Ch. 6, Vol. 337, p. 5 |
5/19/1864; note to GH#9 that St.
Francis de Sales Hospital (capacity 30) has been opened for amputation and
resection cases |
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RG
109, Ch. 6, Vol. 337, p. 6 |
8/8/1864; Sister Juliana of St.
Francis de Sales requests more patients; Carrington directs GH#9 to fill up
St. Francis with all those who "desire to go there" |
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RG
109, Ch. 6, Vol. 337, p. 6 |
8/30/1864; Carrington directs that
GH#9 send no more patients to St. Francis de Sales - effectively closing it
down |
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National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 365, p. 60 |
4/1/1865; dentist is assigned to
Stuart, St. Francis de Sales, & Robertson
Hospitals and officers in private quarters |
| D. W. Thomas CSR, M331 |
various dates; monthly return &
receipts, St. Francis de Sales |
