Elizabeth Bethel, Preliminary Inventory of the War Department Collection of Confederate Records, PI 101 (Washington: National Archives and Records Service, 1957 for a reprint edition with enhancements, see Bethel and Craig Roberts Scott, Preliminary Inventory of the War Department Collection of Confederate Records, PI 101 (Athens, Ga.: Iberian Pub. IMAGE: Adapted from, image 6299733 used with license.ġ. When your research involves issues that carry strong emotional or ideological ties, are you able to shuck those blinders called Preconceived Notions? And records for legions of other wounded Union soldiers treated at any of the other Confederate hospitals and camps. And military prison hospitals such as Salisbury. On occasion, then, a student has expressed dismay over a perceived 'uselessness' of the inventory to those whose research interests lie in Northern units.Īh, how easy it is to miss valuable records when we erect arbitrary walls around our research! Within this classic guide, we learn about reams of official correspondence relating to the 12,912 Union soldiers held at Anderson Prison. 151, p.Among the particularly valuable resources published by the National Archives is the preliminary inventory to Record Group 109, the so-called 'Captured Confederate Records.' 1 On occasion, in one teaching venue or another, EE's chief guru has invoked this guide. Statistics of Howard's Grove Hospital, 9/1862 to 9/1864 - hospital closed after January, 1864, but re-opened in May, 1864 (RG 109, Ch.Waitt, Jr., Official Publication #22 Richmond Civil War Centennial committee, Richmond, Virginia 1964.Īn undated Richmond City Directory from the Civil War years asserts that Alabama soldiers were assigned to the First Division of Howard's Grove, and Mississippi soldiers to the Second Division. Howard's Grove Hospital was named for the family (Howard) that originally owned the property.įrom Confederate Military Hospitals in Richmond by Robert W. It continued as Union Small pox Hospital after the City's occupation. The Surgeons-in-chief (in order of their service) were Dr. Howard s Grove Hospital was partially subsidized by the City of Richmond. Howard's Grove Hospital had its own laundry, bakery, storehouses, water supply, and recreational facilities. A portion was set aside for the isolation of smallpox cases, both military and local civilians. Having a capacity of 659 in December of 1862, it was quickly expanded to over 1800. However, the information in the cards goes far beyond just these simple details. If a soldier was ever sick, injured, or hospitalized during his service, a medical card was generated. An annex was located between 21st and 23rd Streets, T Street, and the ally south of Fairmount Avenue. The Civil War medical cards are records of a soldier’s health during his service in the Union. Howard's Grove Hospital occupied area now confined by the City streets of Mechanicsville Turnpike in the east, Coalter street in the west, Redd Street on the north, and Q Street (extended) on the south and having an extension east of Mechanicsville Turnpike to 19th Street with T Street on the north and Fairmount Avenue on the south. It was taken over by the Confederacy at the outbreak of the War as a drill and bivouac point for the first incoming troops to arrive in Richmond. It was converted into a hospital area by the construction of buildings for ward and utility purposes and opened in June 1862. The Grove was originally a popular Richmond picnic-recreation area. Information about Howard's Grove Hospital in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

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