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

Written Accounts

1863-01-16, Richmond Dispatch; Mrs. Judge Clopton, Franklin between 3rd and 4th, sending box to Richmond Fayette Artillery & her son Wm. J. CLopton, Lt. – seeking donations.
1863-01-21, Richmond Dispatch; 90 employees prepare & repair arms for Virginia State Line.
1863-01-24, National Archives; Tredegar is “pushing ahead the Napoleons for Gen. Lee,” and need either copper or more old guns to melt and recast
1863-01-26, Garnett Family Papers, Virginia Historical Society; Surg. A.Y.P. Garnett is under attack by "persons inimical to me," who have revived old charges of official misconduct which Garnett was acquitted of
1863-01-29, National Archives; Ordnance Department is ordered to provide Tredegar with “200 lbs of steel of sizes suitable for making tools for boring 12 Pdr Napoleon Guns”
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
1863-01-30, Richmond Dispatch; very important adv from W. E. Warren for construction bids for hospital near Camp Winder – probably Jackson Hospital
1863-02-07, Richmond Dispatch; furniture stored at RF&P RR Depot must be taken away
1863-02-13, Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. V, pp. 832-833; report and inventory of care package sent to prisoners in the prison hospital.
1863-02-15, National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 9, Vol. 199½, p. 68; Letter from T. P. Turner, commanding Libby Prison, requesting that Van Lew stop providing meals for a certain prisoner

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