From the Richmond Dispatch, 9/20/1862
Soldier’s Home. – The huge, double brick factory of Crew &
Conrad, on Cary street, nearly opposite the Libby prison, heretofore used as a
hospital, is now being fitted up as a “Soldiers’ Home.” By agreement with
the Government, Mr. Wm. L. McKimm is now putting in it bunks sufficient to serve
twenty seven hundred men with sleeping accommodations. We presume the
“Soldiers’ Home” is intended for the use of soldiers temporarily detained
in Richmond, and for convalescent patients at the hospitals, who may have to
give place to wounded men.
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