General Hospital #17
Information about General Hospital #17 in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

General Hospital #17 was also called Fourth Georgia Hospital. It was formerly the tobacco factory of Smith and McCurdey.

The hospital opened May 19, 1862. A report of June 7, 1862 lists 86 patients but the capacity was over 125. It was destroyed in the evacuation fire.

General Hospital was located on the west side of 21st Street, between Main and Cary Streets about mid-block, just north of General Hospital #16.
From Confederate Military Hospitals in Richmond by Robert W. Waitt, Jr., Official Publication #22 Richmond Civil War Centennial committee, Richmond, Virginia 1964.)

Written Accounts

1861-09-12, Richmond Dispatch; Georgia hospital is being established in "large buildings on 21st street"
1861-09-17, Richmond Enquirer; "Hospitals in Richmond" list
1861-10-15, Richmond Dispatch; J. M. Selkirk at Smith's Factory, 21st St., applies for washerwomen for the Ga. Hospitals
1862-05-23, Richmond Dispatch; Edward Conner, 21 Miss, stabbed to death at Rocketts - dies at 4th Georgia Hospital
1862-05-23, Richmond Enquirer; coroner's inquest held at the Fourth Georgia Hospital
1862-05-27, Richmond Dispatch; J. B. Ficklin, Asst. Surg. In Charge, 4th Ga. Hospital orders out-patients to report
1862-06-28, Richmond Dispatch; Enormous list of wounded by hospital: Central Depot; Third Georgia; Royster; First Alabama; St. Charles; Keen, Baldwin & Williams; Kent; Christian & Lea’s; Ligon; Globe; Third Alabama; Institute; Fourth Georgia
1862-07-01, Richmond Dispatch; list of patients at Moore Hospital, Ligon Hospital, Second Georgia Hospital, Third Georgia Hospital, Howard’s Grove, & Fourth Georgia Hospital
1862-07-04, Richmond Enquirer; hospital directory
1862-07-08, Richmond Enquirer; hospital directory

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