Tobacco Factories
Information about Tobacco Factories during the Civil War

Written Accounts

1896-08-02, Richmond Times; "Of Chimborazo Park" Clipping from a late 19th century newspaper in which Dr. McCaw asserts that he gave the hospital and the hill the name of "Chimborazo"
1897-04-25, Richmond Dispatch; "Burning of Richmond: Incidents of the City's Evacuation Described." By R. T. W. Duke
1900-07-12, National Tribune; good account of the fall of Richmond in 1865, by a boy who lived on Church Hill; notes that advancing Union troops were fired upon from convalescent patients from Chimborazo
1904-02-10, Richmond Times-Dispatch; excellent details on the evacuation fire in Richmond, April 3, 1865. Compares the fire to the recent fire in Baltimore
1904-07-08, Virginia Medical Semi-Monthly; Gildersleeve, John R.; "History of Chimborazo Hospital, Richmond, Va., and Its Medical Officers During 1861-1865 "
1907, "The Twenty-Fourth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers"; Roe, Alfred S., 1907 regimental history detailing the experience of guards at Libby after the city's surrender.
1909, Confederate Veteran 17, p. 215; Watehall, E. T. “Fall of Richmond, April 3, 1865.”
1914-10-02, Cape Weekly Tribune (Cape Girardeau, Mo.); recollection of J. J. Clopton of the burning of Richmond on April 2, 1865. Notes that he grew up opposite the Van Lew house.
1916-11-22, Richmond Times-Dispatch; Seabrook’s Warehouse (formerly GH#9) site to become a new playground. Notes that “a few years ago” it was deemed unsafe and torn down. Brief history of the building. Playground intended to fill a recreational hole betw
1922-07-09, Richmond Times-Dispatch; recollection of Richmond in the 1870s. Chimborazo buildings still present, details on people, industry, newspapers, churches and politics

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