Construction
Information about construction in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

Written Accounts

1863-01-08, National Archives; Carrington writes on the baking of bread in Richmond hospitals, urges the construction of ovens. Gives great details on the Chimborazo Bakery.
1863-01-17, Richmond Dispatch; Belle Isle is ordered to be fitted up for prison use - huts and tents are ordered erected
1863-01-17, Richmond Dispatch; Belle Isle to be fixed up, tents & then huts
1863-01-28, Richmond Dispatch; workmen are tearing up the connecting tracks on Broad street (connecting the RF&P and the Central RRs)
1863-01-30, Richmond Dispatch; very important adv from W. E. Warren for construction bids for hospital near Camp Winder – probably Jackson Hospital
1863-02-20, Richmond Dispatch; new canal boats debut in basin – physically described
1863-03-26, Richmond Dispatch; new workshops for the Virginia Central RR are “at the head of Seventeenth or Valley street”
1863-03-27, Richmond Dispatch; George Minor asks city council for relief from losses incurred in construction of new city almshouse ; report (census) on City Hospital & Howard’s Grove Hospital
1863-04-04, Richmond Examiner; buildings of the C. S. Laboratory have been rebuilt
1863-04-06, Richmond Examiner; Canal Basin bridge at 8th street, which collapsed under the weight of passing Yankee prisoners, is annoying by its absence

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