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

Written Accounts

1862-06-24, National Archives; Tredegar begs for an order of the Ordnance Dept’s pig iron at the Danville Depot – are greatly in want of Pig “now or never” & are using their best iron because theirs has been detained by the canal
1862-07-03, National Archives; Tredegar is entirely out of copper, and is short of the pig iron it ordered – begging the Ordnance Department for relief
1862-07-03, Richmond Whig; article describing the destruction along the Richmond and York River RR following the Seven Days.
1862-07-03, Richmond Whig; brief description of the Confederate Reading Room on 11th north of Main
1862-07-03, Richmond Whig; provisions for the wounded will be sent to the corner of 25th and Main
1862-07-04, National Archives; Tredegar begging form Pig Metal and copper from the Ordnance Dept, because the canal is closed and none can get down
1862-07-08, Richmond Dispatch; Paragraph on the cost of feeding Union prisoners: $2500 per day - R. B. Wilson is Jackson Warner’s Asst. as prison commissar
1862-07-09, Richmond Enquirer; accident at Thomas' factory - wagoner blows his fingers off while off-loading muskets picked up on the battlefield.
1862-07-11, Memphis (Tenn.) Daily Appeal; very important article describing the 11th PA and 4th NJ captives from Gaines’ Mill arriving at Libby Prison. Gives details on the admission process
1862-07-11, Richmond Dispatch; 25,000 small arms received at Richmond Arsenal, collected on Seven Days’ battlefields

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