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Smith Factory Prison :: |
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Information about Smith Factory Prison in Richmond, VA during
the Civil War. |
Probably the same as General Hospital #17. Also called: Fourth Georgia Hospital. Formerly tobacco factory
of Smith and McCurdey. Destroyed in evacuation fire. Opened 19 May 1862. Report
of 7 June 1862 lists 86 patients, but capacity was over 125. Location: westside
of 21st Street, between Main and Cary
Streets, about mid-block, just north of General Hospital #16. (from
Confederate Military Hospitals in Richmond by Robert W. Waitt, Jr., Official
Publication #22 Richmond Civil War Centennial committee, Richmond, Virginia
1964.)
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Richmond
Dispatch |
10/17/1861; Washerwomen needed at the Georgia
hospitals - apply to Smith's Factory, 21st street |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
7/1/1862; "Libby buildings" are insufficient
to hold the influx of Union prisoners - new prison being fitted up on 18th
street (probably Smith's) |
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Richmond
Daily Dispatch |
7/5/1862; Federal officers moved from Libby to
Smith & McCurdy's warehouse |
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Richmond Dispatch |
8/15/1862;
“McCurdy’s Building” is opposite “Hardgrove’s factory.” |
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Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VI, pp. 852-853 |
11/10/1863 - 1/18/1864; statement of clothing
issued to prisoners in Richmond. |
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Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VI, pp. 544-548 |
11/18/1863; report of number of prisoners in
Richmond as well as provisions issued to prisoners |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
1/2/1864; 500 prisoners from "McCurdy's
tobacco factory" have been removed to Belle Isle |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
3/23/1865; details on recruitment
of black troops and call for volunteers; rendezvous for negro troops is at
Smith's factory, 21st street. T. P. Turner (Libby Prison) is one of the
officers |
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Richmond
Whig |
4/4/1865; excellent account of the evacuation
and burning of Richmond; mentions Smith's factory, "on 21st street" burning |
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