Crew & Pemberton's Warehouse
Information about Crew & Pemberton Warehouse/General Hospital #15 in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

Crew & Pemberton's Warehouse functioned as both a hospital (General Hospital #15) and a prison during the Civil War

Also called: Crew's Hospital, Crew and Pemberton Hospital. Formerly tobacco factory of Crew and Pemberton, Four-storied, brick building. Destroyed in evacuation fire. Opened about June 1862. Capacity over 200. Drs. H. C. Scott, G. B. Moore, W. T. Bell, in charge. After 25 September 1862 converted to barracks for convalescent or traveling solders. Location: northwest corner of 21st and Cary Streets.
(from Confederate Military Hospitals in Richmond by Robert W. Waitt, Jr., Official Publication #22 Richmond Civil War Centennial committee, Richmond, Virginia 1964.)

Written Accounts

1903-10-15, National Tribune; diary entry describes Dick Turner stealing money from the prisoners at Pemberton Prison; mentions Libby.
1904-01-07, National Tribune; former prisoner at Pemberton and Belle Isle says that Belle Isle was worse than Andersonville, and that dead prisoners would be frozen stiff to the ground
1904-05-19, National Tribune; brief letter describing imprisonment in Pemberton Prison and Belle Isle from late 1862 to early 1864. Mentions a one-eyed guard named Sgt. Marks who clubbed prisoners
1906-09-06, National Tribune; a veteran of Richmond prisons asks questions about them. Pemberton, the Belle Isle sutler, and the dog-slaying incident are mentioned.
Images of General Hospital #15
Ledger of Confederate Hospital Practice; List of Surgeons at General Hospital #15
National Archives; General Hospital #15
no date, National Archives, RG 109, Ch. VI; time of closure for Richmond hospitals
Overview of General Hospital #15

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