Food & Supply
Information about Food & Supply in Richmond, VA during the Civil War

Written Accounts

1863-07-15, National Archives; Surgeon General Moore denies expenditure for wood for Chimborazo Hospital
1863-07-16, National Archives; Vegetable garden for Chimborazo Hospital “2 ½ miles in the country” saves the Hospital $300 per day. McCaw writes to Surgeon General explaining expenditure for fuel for the guard
1863-07-29, Richmond Sentinel; great physical description of Drewry's Bluff
1863-08-03, National Archives; 150 tents requisitioned for prisoners at Belle Isle “who are without shelter.” Tents are “second hand”
1863-08-12, National Archives, R. A. Lewis CSR, M331; notes on the number of beds and supplies needed in the 5th Division, Winder Hospital
1863-08-13, National Archives; matrons at Winder and Chimborazo Hospitals are using the ambulances as "pleasure carriages" and must be stopped
1863-08-18, Richmond Sentinel; J. R. Anderson (Tredegar Iron Works) buys a lot of flour to sell to his workers at cost
1863-08-24, Richmond Whig; purported letter from prisoner at Castle Thunder
1863-08-28, National Archives; controversy over Jackson Warner and the creation of privies at “Freeland’s house” – a building rented by Warner for a military prison and barracks
1863-08-30, Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VI, pp. 241-242; Letter to CSA from Libby Prison

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