Charity
Information about charity in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

Written Accounts

1863-04-04, Richmond Examiner; account of the trials of several of the bread rioters, great details on individual cases, including Mary Jackson and Dr. Thomas M. Palmer, surgeon at the Florida Hospital (GH#11)
1863-04-07, Richmond Dispatch; Reaction to Bread Riot (creation of committees to visit poor). Much detail, though no mention of the Riot. Depots for poor established at 6th & Clay and Cary between 14th and 15th. Dr. John H. Ellerson on one committee
1863-04-14, Richmond Dispatch; City Council resolves to give CSA all “the old cannon used as street posts” provided they are replaced by stone posts
1863-04-21, Richmond Dispatch; Centenary Methodist Church to hold a general prayer meeting
1863-04-24, Richmond Dispatch; 4/22 ball at Old Market nets $100 for soldiers’ families
1863-04-24, Richmond Dispatch; small crowd at recent Sycamore Church gathering – Male Orphan Society
1863-04-24, Richmond Dispatch; St. Charles Hotel (GH#8) rented to Ga. Hosp. & Relief Association
1863-04-24, Richmond Dispatch; St. Charles Hotel rented to Georgia Hospital & Relief Association, to be a wayside hospital
1863-04-7, Richmond Dispatch; ladies in charge of Robertson Hospital ask for milk from area farms
1863-04, Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. V, pp. 871-924; Evidence taken before the committee of the House of Representatives of the Confederate States appointed to inquire into the treatment of prisoners at Castle Thunder (large, pdf attached)

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