Diseases
Information about Diseases in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

Written Accounts

1865-04-21, Boston Liberator; Charles Coffin correspondence from Richmond, 4/5. Mentions black Confederate soldiers, Thomas Morris Chester, ruins of Richmond, Charles Sumner in Richmond, Libby Prison, and Abraham Lincoln
1865-04-29, National Archives; Summary of Edward G. Higginbotham Compiled Service Record
1865-05-06, Richmond Commercial Bulletin; General Dent, military governor, has ordered small pox vaccinations for everyone in the city – free vaccinations to take place at Libby Prison, Stuart Hospital and the “U. S. Dispensary, corner of Broad and 8th”
1866-01-12, Richmond Whig; Medical College has established a clinic for the poor; Dr. McGuire lectures at Howard’s Grove hospital – discusses his surgeries of Jackson, Ewell and Trimble
1866-01, The Cosmopolite; “Reminiscences of A Southern Hospital. By Its Matron.” Part 1
1866-02, The Cosmopolite, “Reminiscences of A Southern Hospital. By Its Matron.” Part 2
1866-03, The Cosmopolite, “Reminiscences of A Southern Hospital. By Its Matron.” Part 3
1866-04, The Cosmopolite, “Reminiscences of A Southern Hospital. By Its Matron.” Part 4
1866-09-13, notes on cemetery interments from Cholera at Shockoe and “Mechanics” (colored) Cemeteries, notes that the Freedmen’s Bureau uses Mechanics Cemetery for burials of “deceased negroes” (Chimborazo)
1866-09-19, Richmond Dispatch; 1st and 2nd battalions move back to Camp Grant from Camp Scott after a cholera outbreak

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