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Richmond
Whig 1/19/1863; Library wanted for the
Texas Hospital
Richmond
Dispatch 8/6/1863; patient at Winder
Hospital detained at Castle Thunder with no charge and eventually released
Richmond
Dispatch 1/12/1864; owners of slaves working at GH#9
may call for their payments
Richmond
Dispatch 4/24/1863; 11 prisoners arrive at
Libby; 200 officers confined there
Added February 14, 2000
"Draft of Richmond & James
River - Taken by a Paroled Prisoner ."
(National Archives, Record Group 77, Map G 156)
Richmond
Dispatch 1/15/1862; burial statistics at Oakwood
cemetery; 540 soldiers buried there so far
Richmond
Whig 3/10/1862; Castle Godwin mentioned
Richmond
Dispatch 4/26/1862; Franklin Stearns has
been released from Castle Godwin
Richmond
Dispatch 4/28/1862; Oakwood cemetery is the
burial spot for "most, if not all" of the dead from Richmond
hospitals; appeal to hold corpses several days before burial
Richmond
Dispatch 4/28/1862; 100 free negroes needed
as nurses at Winder Hospital
Richmond
Dispatch 5/6/1862; owners of the YMCA
hospital, established "next to Crawford's old saloon" complain
about " resort
for lewd females " across the street
Richmond
Dispatch 5/6/1862; supplies needed at Camp
Winder
Richmond
Dispatch 5/18/1862; Chimborazo needs bandages
Richmond
Dispatch 9/24/1862; 360 federal prisoners in Libby
Prison; more arriving
Richmond
Dispatch 9/24/1862; soldier dies in Castle Thunder and
buried in Oakwood cemetery
Richmond
Dispatch 10/30/1862; Seabrook's Hospital (GH#9) being winterized
Richmond
Dispatch 10/30/1862; escape attempt at Castle Thunder;
notes on those admitted
Richmond
Dispatch 10/30/1862; freak cannon accident at the
Tredegar Iron Works - the city pump-house is accidentally shot
Richmond
Dispatch 10/30/1862; 8 Yankees arrive at Libby Prison
from Suffolk
Richmond
Whig 12/27/1862; Castle Thunder described briefly
Richmond
Whig 12/29/1862; Tredegar employee murders neighbor
Richmond
Dispatch 1/12/1863; smallpox hospital for negroes opened
at Howard's Grove
Richmond
Whig 1/13/1863; Small Pox hospital opened for negroes
at Howard's Grove.
Richmond
Dispatch 4/10/1863; St. Charles Hotel (GH#8) sold
Richmond
Dispatch 4/24/1863; St. Charles Hotel (GH#8) rented to Ga. Hosp.
& Relief Association
Richmond
Examiner 5/11/1863; between two and three
thousand Yankee prisoners arrive and quartered at Crew's factory
Richmond
Examiner 5/11/1863; Castle Thunder admittees;
1300 Yankees arrived at Libby yesterday - if this rate keeps up, Belle
Isle will be re-opened
Richmond
Sentinel 7/27/1863; Female spy at St. Francis de Sales
Richmond
Dispatch 8/6/1863; sick & disabled on furlough may stay at
Wayside hospital (GH#12)
Richmond
Dispatch 10/28/1863; laundresses at General Hospital #13 convicted of
stealing linens
Richmond
Dispatch 5/17/1864; nurses needed for Receiving (GH#9),
Howard's Grove, Winder, &
Jackson hospitals
Richmond
Dispatch 7/6/1864; attempted escape from "Palmer's
building, opposite Castle Thunder"
Richmond
Dispatch 7/6/1864; detail of operation by a surgeon at Chimborazo
Richmond
Dispatch 8/9/1864; NC sends $15,000 for NC soldiers at Winder
Richmond
Dispatch 8/10/1864; wounded negroes from Burnside's Corps sent to
Castle Thunder
Richmond
Whig 11/14/1864; employees of Tredegar Iron Works jailed for
desertion
Richmond
Dispatch 3/23/1865; negroes employed at Winder & Jackson join the
army
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Richmond
Examiner 3/14/1863; Libby Prison items;
gives details of the capture of Brig. Gen. E. H. Stoughton, at Fairfax
Court House
Richmond
Examiner 4/1/1863; eight prisoners, including six
Yankee deserters, are registered at Libby, from Weldon, N. C.
Richmond
Examiner 7/21/1863; Yankee prisoner at
"the prison opposite Castle Thunder" is shot by the guard for
leaning out the window.
Richmond
Examiner 7/21/1863; A member of the
Washington Artillery, a four-time escapee from Castle Thunder has been
recaptured and put back in Castle Thunder
Richmond
Examiner 7/21/1863; negro soldier
discovered on Belle Isle while paroling prisoners
Richmond
Examiner 7/21/1863; 1,006 prisoners paroled
from Belle Isle and sent north
Richmond
Examiner 7/28/1863; prisoners at Castle
Thunder now have access to the "large plaza" attached to it
Richmond
Examiner 7/28/1863; 4,300 total prisoners
in Richmond; 3,309 at Belle Isle; several thousand paroled recently
Added February 5, 2000
Richmond
Examiner 7/25/1862; Yankee prisoners are being paroled,
very few remain in Richmond; mortality amongst prisoners is 50%+
Richmond
Examiner 7/25/1862; Wm. Carrington, surgeon at GH#10
thanks contributors; says Carrington is also in charge of "temporary
hospitals"
Richmond
Examiner 7/26/1862; Notice that two men from Winder
Hospital have been dispatched to the countryside to purchase subsistence
items
Richmond
Examiner 7/26/1862; Oakwood cemetery described
negatively; men are buried 3 deep
Richmond
Examiner 7/26/1862; escapee from Castle Godwin, Lacy,
has been re-captured
Richmond
Examiner 7/26/1862; Medical Purveyor's office receives a
generous donation from employees at the C. S. Laboratory
Richmond
Examiner 9/19/1862; Three companies of Marylanders are
at Camp Maryland, contiguous to Camp Winder
Richmond
Examiner 9/24/1862; Belle Isle, now empty, is being
fumigated
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Added February 3, 2000 Hospital Index - including names of all
hospitals and other names for major General Hospitals
Added February 2, 2000
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