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Texas Hospital ::
Information about the Texas Hospital in Richmond, VA during
the Civil War.
location: southwest corner of Pear and Main streets. Occupied the building
belonging to T. & S. Hardgrove. Often misidentified as GH#25, but in
actuality was a completely different facility.
Photographs
1865 photograph
of Texas Hospital, taken from Libby Hill
Written Accounts
Richmond
Dispatch 5/25/1861; house burns down
"opposite Hardgrove's factory"
Richmond
Examiner 9/26/1861; Ad for tobacco at Hardgrove Factory
Richmond
Dispatch 12/27/1861;
Slave of T. & S.
Hardgrove punished for providing whiskey to POWs
Richmond
Dispatch
5/2/1862; Samuel Hardgrove adv for his runaway slave,
who worked at Chimborazo and has been seen around Winder Hospital, trying to
hire himself out.
Richmond Dispatch
7/24/1862; Col.
Henry Forno at Hardgrove’s Factory, “foot of Main St.,” collecting all men
of McLaw’s Division in town
Richmond Dispatch
8/15/1862;
“McCurdy’s Building” is opposite “Hardgrove’s factory.”
Richmond Dispatch
10/11/1862; Death
notice of Saml. Hardgrove, d. 10/10/1862, age 65, Manchester residence.
Richmond Dispatch
12/2/1862; 2
backers needed at Alex McKay’s Bakery, Main & 28th, “(Hardgrove’s
Fac’y)”
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6,
Vol. 707, p. 228
12/11/1862; the estate of W. A.
Hardgrove would like their slaves to be returned from Chimborazo, in order
to be sold
Richmond Dispatch
12/16/1862; list
of machinery to be sold inside T. & S. Hardgrove’s Factory
Richmond
Whig 12/29/1862; Texas Hospital established in the T.
& S. Hardgrove tobacco factories.
Richmond
Whig 1/19/1863; Library wanted for the
Texas Hospital
Houston
Tri-Weekly Telegraph
3/23/1863; correspondence of 5th TX
soldier describing the Texas Hospital, and the benevolence of Mr. Tanner,
co-proprietor of Tredegar Iron Works
Richmond
Sentinel 8/10/1863; list of hospitals in
Richmond and to which hospitals soldiers from the various states are sent
Richmond Sentinel 9/21/1863; list of hospitals in Richmond and to which
hospitals soldiers from the various states are sent
Official Records,
Series II, Vol VI, page 1050 . 11/20/1863; Captain Turner says hospital not fit for prison
use.
Official Records,
Series II, Vol VI, page 1086 . 11/23/1863; Carrington reiterates Texas Hospital not fit for
prison use, and requests that GHs #20 & #23 be used as prison hospitals.
RG
109, Ch. 6, Vol. 151, p. 50 1/1863 - 11/1863; Statistics of Texas Hospital - hospital closed after
November, 1863
Official Records,
Ser. II, Vol. VI, pp. 1086-87 12/17/1863; General Hospital #10 is ordered to be closed;
stores from the Texas Hospital are sought to alleviate suffering in GH#10
Richmond
Sentinel 1/13/1864; Texas, Alabama Hospitals, GH#10, GH#11 permanently
closed and patients moved to Howard's Grove.
In the National Archives:
Record Group 109,
(ch.
VI, vol. 417). 2 in. Prescription and Diet Book, Texas Hospital.
1863. 1 vol. Shows date; patient's name, bed number, rank, and
organization; and medicines and food to be given each day. Entries are
arranged by date.
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last updated on
07/17/2008
