General Hospital #7
Information about General Hospital #7 in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

General Hospital #7 was also called Bacon and Baskerville hospital, Receiving and Wayside Hospital, and Receiving and Way Hospital and was in the building that was formerly Bacon and Baskerville, wholesale grocers and commission merchants.

General Hospital #7 was destroyed in the evacuation fire.

The hospital was located on the northeast corner of 12th and Cary Streets, facing Cary which is the present site numbered 1200-2-4 East Cary.
From Confederate Military Hospitals in Richmond by Robert W. Wait, Jr., Official Publication #22 Richmond Civil War Centennial committee, Richmond, Virginia 1964.

Written Accounts

1861-03-28, Richmond Enquirer; ad for commission merchants Bacon & Baskervill (future GH#7)
1862-06-23, Richmond Whig; Bacon & Baskerville’s Warehouse has been taken as a hospital – the company gives instructions where to find the office now
1862-07-04, Richmond Dispatch; donations needed at Bacon & Baskerville Hospital (GH#7)
1862-07-04, Richmond Enquirer; hospital directory
1862-07-05, Richmond Dispatch; call for contributions to Bacon & Baskerville hospital (GH#7)
1862-07-07, Richmond Dispatch; fire at Bacon & Baskervill’s warehouse, in use as a hospital. Fire department puts out the fire, saving the lives of “one hundred and fifty brave men”
1862-07-07, Richmond Whig; fire breaks out in Bacon & Baskerville Hospital (GH#7)
1862-07-08, Richmond Enquirer; hospital directory
1862-07-11, Richmond Enquirer; hospital directory
1862-07-15, Richmond Enquirer; hospital directory

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