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August, 1861 |
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| Richmond Dispatch | 8/1/1861; funeral of a Mississippian will take place at St. Charles Hospital (future GH#8) |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/1/1861; two POWs arrive - one a spy |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/1/1861; families who have sick and wounded soldiers in their homes are requested to call their family physicians or report to "hospital on 26th, near Main" (probably Ross' factory) |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/1/1861; report of a body left on the platform at the Virginia Central depot |
| Richmond Whig | 8/1/1861; details on private hospitals in school-houses on Clay street |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/2/1861; majority of wounded POWs are at the alms house; hospital established for prisoners at Ross' Factory |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/2/1861; statistics of city tobacco warehouses, including Seabrook's, showing a marked decline from the same time a year before |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/2/1861; soldiers encamped near Hollywood Cemetery are requested not to fire their weapons into the cemetery, after funeral attendee is struck by a spent bullet |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/2/1861; 70 wounded POWs brought to Richmond |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/2/1861; 15 negro men wanted to work in the Alms House Hospital |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/2/1861; rumor of body on the platform at the Virginia Central depot is false |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/3/1861; the number of wounded POWs is now near 500 and more arriving; medicines will be needed |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/3/1861; Cook, Servants, and Cleaning Women needed at the St. Charles Hospital. |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/3/1861; 3 Chambermaids and a Porter are needed at the Spotswood Hotel |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/3/1861; Jas. H. Burton, Supt. C. S. Armory, taking bids for stone. |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/3/1861; appointment of new superintendent of the Richmond and York River RR |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/3/1861; great description of train accident on the Central Railroad, near Hanover Junction |
| Richmond Whig | 8/3/1861; description of hospital facilities in Richmond (St. Charles Hotel, Masons’ Hall) |
| Richmond Whig | 8/3/1861; "The Life Guard," and "Capt. Bayly's company" are at Camp Lee |
| Richmond Whig | 8/3/1861; President Davis ad family have moved into their home at 12th and Clay streets |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/4/1861; more details on the Hanover Junction train wreck |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/5/1861; 74 new Yankee POWs arrive - housed at prison in Jefferson Ward |
| Richmond Whig | 8/5/1861; description of the "prison depot," particularly Harwood's factory, and recommendations for treatment of prisoners |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/6/1861; Medical College Hospital needs servant & washerwoman |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/6/1861; Henrico Liberty Guard to meet at Company G Hall |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/6/1861; Geo. Watt & Co. selling bowie knives & Artillery swords |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/6/1861; 17 Yankee POWs have died in Richmond so far |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/6/1861; soldier from the 20th VA died at the St. Charles Hospital |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/6/1861; funeral of soldier from St. Charles Hospital |
| Richmond Whig | 8/6/1861; ladies of St. James Episcopal Church have obtained Judge Robertson's house, corner of 3rd and Main, for use as a hospital (later Robertson Hospital) |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/7/1861; Court Martial at Hermitage Fair Grounds. Col. Wigfall to be President |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/7/1861; ad for tobacco from Turpin & Yarbrough's factory |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/8/1861; St. Charles Hosp. (GH#8) has 160 patients |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/8/1861; nearly 300 Yankee POWs at Alms House; mentions Col. Wilcox and Capt. Ricketts being there |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/8/1861; Mrs. Judge Hopkins' hospital, 5th bw Clay & Leigh, remarkably neat, etc |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/8/1861; description of an officers' suicide at the Ballard House |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/8/1861; 109 prisoners in the city jail |
| Richmond Whig | 8/8/1861; General Hospital #1 described |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/9/1861; notes on high POW mortality |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/9/1861; 11 Yankee POWs arrive |
| Richmond Whig | 8/9/1861; St. Charles Hospital (GH#8) has been spreading sawdust on the road to keep it quiet |
| Richmond Whig | 8/9/1861; appeal for Congress to establish a "National Hospital" in the mountains |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/10/1861; sawdust sprinkled on Wall st. to deaden noise near St. Charles Hospital |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/10/1861; Dr. E. S. Gaillard awarded $100 for dissertation on ozone |
| Richmond Whig | 8/10/1861; appeal for the Alms House to be occupied by Confederate wounded, and the Yankees moved out. Praises the hospital as a "large and airy building" |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/12/1861; three deaths at Bellevue Hospital and burials in Hollywood Cemetery |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/12/1861; Ad for Singer's Barrel factory, Cary bw 18th & 19th |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/12/1861; 3 negro nurses needed for Medical College Hospital |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/12/1861; letter from POW of 69th NY, at Alms House Hospital |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/13/1861; St. Charles Hospital "greatly in need of nurses" |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/13/1861; St. Charles & Wall St. Hospitals contain more than 460 patients |
| Richmond Enquirer | 8/13/1861; member of 2nd SC died at St. Charles Hospital |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/14/1861; Mrs. Jefferson Davis applies for carriage driver & dining room waiter |
| Richmond Whig | 8/14/1861; recommendation that negroes be employed as hospital assistants and that Yankees be moved out of the Alms House |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/15/1861; hospital at Gilliam's Factory (General Hospital #3) needs supplies |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/15/1861; Yankee POW escapes from Harwood's Factory, but recaptured - details on capture by Henrico minister |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/15/1861; note from Mrs. Judge Hopkins, thanking donors to Alabama Hospital |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/15/1861; Armory is taking bids for building a brick wall |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/15/1861; a dozen Manassas POWs arrive, and taken to the prison on Main Street |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/16/1861; 4th Company of Richmond Howitzers are gathering at New Fairgrounds (Camp Lee) |
| Richmond Enquirer | 8/16/1861; sick soldiers being brought to Gilliam's Factory (Gen. Hos. #3) |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/17/1861; Mrs. A. F. Hopkins of Mobile in town, collecting & disbursing supplies for Ladies Military Aid Society of Mobile |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/17/1861; 2 escapees from Harwood's recaptured in King William County |
| Richmond Whig | 8/17/1861; reiteration of appeal to move Yankees out of Alms House |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/20/1861; detailed account of visit to Alms House Prison Hospital |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/20/1861; paragraph on grave-digging at Hollywood; nearly 100 soldier graves already |
| Richmond Enquirer | 8/20/1861; Centenary Methodist Church Hospital established |
| Richmond Whig | 8/20/1861; Sycamore Church establishes hospital in their lecture-room |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/21/1861; St. Charles Hospital feeding hundreds daily, on private contributions |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/21/1861; ad for someone to superintend St. Charles Hospital |
| Richmond Whig | 8/21/1861; gratuitous praise of the nearly complete Richmond fortifications |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/22/1861; Thos. M. Palmer, Surg. 2nd FL, ad for lost or stolen horses |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/22/1861; 2 POWs recaptured after escaping from Main St. prison |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/22/1861; 14th AL encamped just beyond Bloody Run gully; dress parades "occur on the level ground just above the gully" (Chimborazo Hill) |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/22/1861; short extract from letter of Yankee POW, describing prison building |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/23/1861; excellent description of Springfield Hospital |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/23/1861; resident students needed at Medical College Hospital |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/23/1861; Pattern maker needed at the Armory |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/24/1861; note from Co. B, Tredegar Bn., thanking J. R. Anderson and others for contributing towards uniforming the company |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/24/1861; Springfield Hospital needs one cook & one washerwoman |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/26/1861; lists two Yankee officers who died recently at Alms House |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/26/1861; member of CS guard at Ligon's factory shoots his officer |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/26/1861; list of prominent Yankee POWs at Alms House |
| Richmond Whig | 8/26/1861; Improvements to General Hospital #1. |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/27/1861; 21 new POWs arrive |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/27/1861; Hodge cartridges tested at Armory on 8/26, with success |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/27/1861; Letter from "Militia;" included a few facts on Tredegar Battalion |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/28/1861; note from patients at St. Charles Hospital thanking everyone for good help |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/28/1861; death notice of a soldier at Robertson Hospital |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/29/1861; Surgeon at Gilliam's factory (GH#3) advertises for servants and wardmaster |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/29/1861; 6 female nurses needed at St. Charles Hospital |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/30/1861; 5 negroes caught having a party at Lancastrian Schoolhouse |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/30/1861; 13 POWs arrive |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/30/1861; very good article on St. Charles Hospital; gives stats |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/31/1861; good stuff on Alabama Hospital organization - letter from Mrs. Hopkins; says the Alabama Hosp. est. 8/1/1861 |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/31/1861; 2 good nurses needed for Alabama Hospital |
| Richmond Dispatch | 8/31/1861; good description of Sycamore Church Hospital; opened 8/21 |
| Richmond Whig | 8/31/1861; Richmond Female Institute (later GH#4) will remain open |
| Richmond Whig | 8/31/1861; description of Sycamore Hospital |
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