Texas Hospital
Information about the Texas Hospital in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

Texas Hospital was located on the southwest corner of Pear and Main streets. It occupied the building belonging to T. & S. Hardgrove.

Texas Hospital was often misidentified as General Hospital #25, but, in actuality,  it was a completely different facility.
From Confederate Military Hospitals in Richmond by Robert W. Waitt, Jr., Official Publication #22 Richmond Civil War Centennial committee, Richmond, Virginia 1964.

Written Accounts

1861-05-25, Richmond Dispatch; house burns down "opposite Hardgrove's factory"
1861-09-26, Richmond Examiner; Ad for tobacco at Hardgrove Factory
1862-08-15, Richmond Dispatch; “McCurdy’s Building” is opposite “Hardgrove’s factory
1862-12-02, Richmond Dispatch; 2 backers needed at Alex McKay’s Bakery, Main & 28th, “(Hardgrove’s Fac’y)”
1862-12-16, Richmond Dispatch; list of machinery to be sold inside T. & S. Hardgrove’s Factory
1862-12-29, Richmond Whig; Texas Hospital established in the T. & S. Hardgrove tobacco factories.
1863-01-01, Richmond Dispatch; Prices realized at sale of Samuel Hardgrove’s negroes – extensive
1863-01-19, Richmond Whig; Library wanted for the Texas Hospital
1863-03-23, Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph; correspondence of 5th TX soldier describing the Texas Hospital, and the benevolence of Mr. Tanner, co-proprietor of Tredegar Iron Works
1863-08-03, National Archives, RG 109, Ch. VI; Apportionment of Genl. Hospls. in Dept. Henrico

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