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

Written Accounts

1863-01-16, Richmond Dispatch; paragraph on Howard’s Grove Smallpox hospital
1863-01-20, Richmond Dispatch; 700 more POWs arrive – 800 to be sent away for exchanged. Jno. Martin, 9th Indiana, died on street - typhoid
1863-01-21, Richmond Dispatch; Castle Thunder update
1863-01-23, Abington Virginian; Recommendation to burn leather scraps as a small-pox disinfectant – Castle Thunder has been doing this to good effect
1863-01-23, Richmond Dispatch; city law now requires homes infected with Smallpox fly a white flag outside.
1863-01-23, Richmond Dispatch; Maj. Wm. Proctor Smith at corner 28th & Grace adv for steward for a smallpox hospital
1863-01-23, Richmond Dispatch; man vaccinated at the “Prison Hospital” gets gangrene in the affected arm, and will have to be amputated
1863-01-24, Richmond Dispatch; Tar & leather scraps burned at Libby Prison and Castle Thunder to fight off smallpox
1863-01-30, Phoebe Pember Collection, UNC, excellent letter from Phoebe Pember to her sister describing life at Chimborazo and a visit to Mrs. Hopkins at the Alabama Hospital. Mentions getting special treatment from the Surgeon General
1863-02-09, Richmond Dispatch; Moses Overton, “Genl. Lee’s Body Guard,” died 2/8 at Castle Thunder Hospital, typhoid pneumonia

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