General Hospital #16
Information about General Hospital #16 in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

General Hospital #16 was also called First Georgia Hospital. It was formerly the tobacco factory of John E. Whitlock and Company.

The hospital opened before June 1862. A report on June 7, 1862 listed 66 patients, but the capacity was over 130. It was destroyed in the evacuation fire.

General Hospital #16 was located on the west side of 21st Street; between Main and Cary Streets.
From Confederate Military Hospitals in Richmond by Robert W. Waitt, Jr., Official Publication #22 Richmond Civil War Centennial committee, Richmond, Virginia 1964.

Written Accounts

1861-09-12, Richmond Dispatch; Georgia hospital is being established in "large buildings on 21st street"
1861-09-23, Richmond Enquirer; 60 sick Georgians have arrived and are taken to the Georgia Hospital
1861-10-08, Richmond Dispatch; Now two Georgia Hospitals in operation, a third in preparation
1861-10-15, Richmond Dispatch; J. M. Selkirk at Smith's Factory, 21st St., applies for washerwomen for the Ga. Hospitals
1861-11-08, Richmond Dispatch; Georgia Hospital, 21st street, advertises for servants
1861-11-11-, Richmond Dispatch; slave of James Royster whipped for stealing coffee from Ga. Hospital
1862-01-01, Richmond Dispatch; male negro nurses wanted at Georgia Hospital, 21st bw Main & Cary
1862-02-25, Richmond Dispatch; four male negroes needed for nurses, Georgia Hospital, 21st street
1862-04-23, Richmond Dispatch; male servants needed, Georgia Hospital 21st & Cary
1862-05-29, Richmond Dispatch; F. C. Ellison is Asst. Surg 1Ga Hosp

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