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

Written Accounts

1863-12-03, Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VI, pp. 642-643; rations at Libby
1863-12-04, National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 7, no page; "Hospitals for prisoners of war are placed on the same footing as other C. S. hospitals in all respects, and will be managed accordingly"
1863-12-05, Harper’s Weekly; article describing Belle Isle, and providing a highly propagandized engraving of the prison camp. Article describes suffering on Belle Isle, and mentions that 43 men are dying in Richmond hospitals each day
1863-12-08, National Archives; Tredegar begs for pig iron from the Ordnance Dept., and can make it into guns in the Rolling Mill “now in operation”
1863-12-14(?), National Archives; details on laundry operation for Chimborazo Division #2 - no clothing or bedding will be given out without an order from Mrs. Pember
1863-12-16, Richmond Whig; editorial regarding Libby Prison
1863-12-31, National Archives; Details payments to Mrs. Mary G. Minge, Chief Matron of Chimborazo Hospital, and the wife of Dr. John Minge, Assistant Surgeon at Chimborazo
1863, Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War; prisoner's account of harsh treatment in Richmond. Notes that while at the General Hospital (GH#1) he was well-treated; at the tobacco warehouse he was not.
1864-01-01, Richmond Examiner; New Year's dinner donations to Camp Lee
1864-01-02, National Archives; Chimborazo is directed to have "a sufficiency of ice"

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