Also known as Yarbrough's Factory Hospital; Turpin's Factory Hospital.
Tobacco factory building of Turpin and Yarbrough. Southwest corner of 25th
and Franklin Streets. Capacity of more than 125. Was opened before June 1862 and
was still in operation in late-1863. Was attached to and part of General
Hospital #21. Mrs. Juliet Ann Opie Hopkins
(Mrs. Judge A. F. Hopkins) administered this and all other Alabama hospitals in
town.
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Richmond
Dispatch |
6/10/1861; women who want to be
nurses should apply to Mrs. A. F. Hopkins |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
6/28/1861; editorial commending the
efforts of Mrs. Judge Hopkins and other ladies providing nursing care |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
8/7/1861; ad for tobacco from
Turpin & Yarbrough's factory |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
8/8/1861; Mrs. Judge Hopkins'
hospital, 5th bw Clay & Leigh, remarkably neat, etc |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
8/15/1861; note from Mrs. Judge
Hopkins, thanking donors to Alabama Hospital |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
8/17/1861; Mrs. A. F. Hopkins of
Mobile in town, collecting & disbursing supplies for Ladies Military Aid
Society of Mobile |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
8/31/1861; 2 good nurses needed for
Alabama Hospital |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
11/15/1861; colored female nurse needed at the
2nd Alabama Hospital |
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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
Examiner |
10/11/1861; man arrested for trespassing at
Turpin & Yarborough's tobacco factory, "now used as a hospital." |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
12/6/1861;
G. S. McNeal,
Steward 2nd Alabama Hospital adv. for lost overcoat |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
12/7/1861;
2 negro
washerwomen needed at 2nd Ala Hospital |
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Richmond Dispatch |
3/14/1862; Judge Arthur F. Hopkins confined for threatening murder |
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Richmond Dispatch |
3/17/1862; Judge A. F. Hopkins was not jailed, but released for assault –
newspaper clarifies the mistake. |
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William S.
Campbell letter |
3/18/1862; description of 1st Alabama Hospital
and surgeons; mentions Mrs. Hopkins and 2nd Alabama Hospital |
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Richmond Dispatch |
4/12/1862; 2nd Alabama Hospital adv for 12-15 men, 5-6 women,
“for Hospital purposes.” |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
5/5/1862; adv for servants & nurses for 2nd Alabama Hospital |
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Richmond Dispatch |
5/26/1862; Paul DeLacy Baker at Second Alabama Hospital, warns out-patients
to report or be AWOL |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
6/10/1862; casualty list from Seven Pines,
listing the hospitals where wounded were taken. 2nd Alabama has 9 wounded. |
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Richmond Dispatch |
6/25/1862; C. J.
Clark, Surgeon in charge "Ala hospitals" |
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Richmond Dispatch |
7/15/1862;
Alabama Hospitals wish to purchase milk & buttermilk. Apply at First Alabama
Hospital (Broad, bw 23 & 24) of Third Alabama Hospital (cor 21 and Franklin) |
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Ledger of Confederate Medical Practice |
no date; list of Surgeons at Second Alabama
Hospital |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
9/30/1862; tabular report of sick & wounded
soldiers in the Hospitals in Richmond |
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Library of Congress |
10/6/1862; reports on the capacities of
Richmond Hospitals and empty beds |
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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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Richmond
Enquirer |
10/16/1862; Mrs. A. F. Hopkins acknowledges
contributions to Alabama soldiers |
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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. 33) |
11/20/1862; Inspection Report |
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Phoebe Pember Collection,
UNC |
1/30/1863; excellent letter from
Phoebe Pember to her sister describing life at Chimborazo and a visit to
Mrs. Hopkins at the Alabama Hospital. Mentions getting special treatment
from the Surgeon General and allowed to board where she pleases and given an
ambulance |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
8/10/1863; list of hospitals in
Richmond and to which hospitals soldiers from the various states are sent |
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Richmond Sentinel |
9/21/1863; list of hospitals in Richmond and to
which hospitals soldiers from the various states are sent |
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RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 151, p. 47 |
9/1862 - 9/1863; Statistics of Second Alabama
Hospital - hospital closed after September, 1863 |
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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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Jno. H.
Parkhill CSR |
11/19/1864; Turpin and Yarbrough's Prison
Hospital should cease being rented by the Confederate Government |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
2/27/1865; man breaks into Turpin &
Yarbrough's factory and steals a pair of shoes |
