Women
Information about women in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

Written Accounts

1864-06-27, National Archives; the washing at Stuart Hospital is to be done at Chimborazo Hospital, which apparently has its own facilities - the purpose of this is, as Carrington says, to dispense with "negro wenches" (laundresses) at the hospital
1864-06-27, Richmond Examiner; insolent Yankee POW struck (and knocked out) for making a slur upon a Richmond lady
1864-06-27, Richmond Whig; slave arrested for burglary at "Old Fairgrounds Hospital" (Stuart Hospital)
1864-06-29, Richmond Examiner; Details of the imprisonment of Dr. Mary Walker in Castle Thunder
1864-06-29, Richmond Whig; a lady has been fraudulently seeking contributions for Chimborazo Hospital; the hospital needs no money - they have plenty of funds
1864-06-30, Richmond Examiner; hilarious account of a "fistic scene."
1864-07-01, Richmond Sentinel; house of "ill fame" is broken up by police. Women there "exposed their persons in the windows, and halloed at, threw at and spit upon all passers by."
1864-07-07, Richmond Examiner; Chimborazo patients caught in a “notorious bawdy house”
1864-07-07, Richmond Whig; two Chimborazo patients caught in a "house of ill-fame" in Rocketts
1864-07-08, Richmond Whig; Praise that "the military authorities have determined to give passports to all the old women who may wish to go to Yankee land" because there is a "superabundance" of them

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