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

Written Accounts

1862-07-15, Richmond Dispatch; RDRR wants to extend up Virginia Street. J. Johns, Medical Purveyor, protests. Also, Mr. Crutchfield introduces a bill about “weighing of long forage in the Second Market.”
1862-07-17, Richmond Dispatch; Agent for Richmond Hospitals acknowledges donations. Seabrook, Central Depot, Kent Hospitals are the beneficiaries of these donations
1862-07-18, Richmond Dispatch; VCRR to have special car between Louisa C. H. & Richmond to accept donations from citizens for Richmond hospitals
1862-07-26, Charleston Mercury; notes that the stench of "suppurating wounds" from Chimborazo Hospital can be smelt upon approaching Richmond on the train; notes on the military situation and local feeling
1862-07-26, Richmond Examiner; Medical Purveyor's office receives a generous donation from employees at the C. S. Laboratory
1862-07-26, Richmond Examiner; Notice that two men from Winder Hospital have been dispatched to the countryside to purchase subsistence items
1862-07-29, Richmond Whig; Maryland Hospital is not very well attended to
1862-08-02, Charleston Mercury; "War Gossip" mentions criticism of the Dix-Hill Prisoner Cartel, the condemnation of Gen. Butler, South Carolinians at Camp Lee, and describes the newly formed Belle Isle Prison - notes that there are 4600 POWs there
1862-08-04, Richmond Examiner; effusive praise of the Louisiana Hospital
1862-08-04, Richmond Examiner; Provost Marshal’s officers capture stolen property from the battlefields

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