1/9/1862; Taylor’s and Mayo’s factories (Cary between
24th and 25th streets) are no longer prisons, and Taylor’s is preparing to
become a hospital for Marylanders. Probably the building that became GH#21
4/10/1862; List of the staff at Libby Prison [Turner,
Emack, Warner, Higginbotham, Ross]. Also names officers commanding the
guard. Notes that there were 724 inmates there yesterday, and more are
coming in.
4/30/1862; Complaint that a barracks master is employed
at Chimborazo, now that it has become a hospital - "When the buildings which
compose this Hospital were first erected, they were intended for a barracks"
10/5/1861; statistics and praise of
the “Confederate States Prison Hospital, at Rocketts.” Notes 41 deaths have
occurred, and praises Dr. E. G. Higginbotham at length.
10/5/1861; corrections to the
statistics of the ladies’ hospitals in Richmond. Warwick House and Company G
Hospital have not been keeping good books. Death rate is between 3.2 - 3.7%
6/7/1862; the James River is higher than it has been since 1847; the water
is up to the hubs of wagons wheels on Cary street “opposite Talbot’s
foundry”
6/10/1862; appeal for a listing of patients in Richmond - mentions the
difficulty in canvassing the many hospitals and the “streets of sick and
wounded” at Camp Winder and Chimborazo
1880; notes on various Richmond
sights and their current condition - mentions Libby Prison, Castle Godwin,
Castle Thunder (recently destroyed by fire), Robertson Hospital (great
physical description), Drewry's Bluff, and the Union Hotel (now used to
train missionaries)
