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

Written Accounts

1866-01-06, The National Freedman; letter from Richmond soliciting donations of shoes from the North for Freedmen. Notes on conditions at Chimborazo.
1866-01-11, Richmond Examiner; “James River Farmers” meet at Turkey Island to set standards and practices regarding the labor of the Freedmen
1866-01-13, Richmond Examiner; negroes found with stolen goods, believed to have been taken during the evacuation
1866-01-17, Richmond Examiner; two men killed near Mayo bridge while attempting to disarm a shell for scrap iron
1866-01, The Cosmopolite; “Reminiscences of A Southern Hospital. By Its Matron.” Part 1
1866-02-03, Richmond Examiner; very lengthy and descriptive account of a Loyal Union hop at the Spotswood Hotel. Names of many attendees, including John Van Lew, Erasmus Ross, and many others
1866-02-05, Richmond Examiner; Republication and expansion of very lengthy and descriptive account of a Loyal Union hop at the Spotswood Hotel. Names of many attendees, including John Van Lew, Erasmus Ross, and many others (greatly expanded since earlier
1866-02-10, Richmond Examiner; negro found dead on the bridge leading to Chimborazo Hospital (“now the Asylum for freed negroes”) on Marshall street – buried in the “new negro cemetery” established by the Freedman’s Bureau.
1866-02-22, Richmond Examiner; notice that Pizzini’s “confectionery palace, on Broad street,” does immense business, and he is known as the “Napoleon of Confectioners.”
1866-02-27, Richmond Examiner; report of “depredations” by the “negroes who inhabit Chimborazo Hospital Hill.”

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