location: southwest corner of Pear and Main streets. Occupied the building
belonging to T. & S. Hardgrove. Often misidentified as GH#25, but in
actuality was a completely different facility.
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Richmond
Dispatch |
5/25/1861; house burns down
"opposite Hardgrove's factory" |
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Richmond
Examiner |
9/26/1861; Ad for tobacco at Hardgrove Factory |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/27/1861;
Slave of T. & S.
Hardgrove punished for providing whiskey to POWs |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/2/1862; Samuel Hardgrove adv for his runaway slave,
who worked at Chimborazo and has been seen around Winder Hospital, trying to
hire himself out. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/24/1862; Col.
Henry Forno at Hardgrove’s Factory, “foot of Main St.,” collecting all men
of McLaw’s Division in town |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
8/15/1862;
“McCurdy’s Building” is opposite “Hardgrove’s factory.” |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/11/1862; Death
notice of Saml. Hardgrove, d. 10/10/1862, age 65, Manchester residence. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/2/1862; 2
backers needed at Alex McKay’s Bakery, Main & 28th, “(Hardgrove’s
Fac’y)” |
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National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6,
Vol. 707, p. 228 |
12/11/1862; the estate of W. A.
Hardgrove would like their slaves to be returned from Chimborazo, in order
to be sold |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/16/1862; list
of machinery to be sold inside T. & S. Hardgrove’s Factory |
|
Richmond
Whig |
12/29/1862; Texas Hospital established in the T.
& S. Hardgrove tobacco factories. |
|
Richmond
Whig |
1/9/1863; Texas
Hospital (“at Hardgrove’s old factory, east terminus C. R. R.”) hiring a
Chief Matron and a “gentleman of good business qualifications.” Also
seeking donations for a Library and reading room. |
|
Richmond
Whig |
1/12/1863; Texas
Hospital is looking for donations of books. |
|
Richmond
Whig |
1/19/1863; Library wanted for the
Texas Hospital |
|
Houston
Tri-Weekly Telegraph |
3/23/1863; correspondence of 5th TX
soldier describing the Texas Hospital, and the benevolence of Mr. Tanner,
co-proprietor of Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/10/1863; list of hospitals in
Richmond and to which hospitals soldiers from the various states are sent |
|
Richmond Sentinel |
9/21/1863; list of hospitals in Richmond and to which
hospitals soldiers from the various states are sent |
|
Official Records,
Series II, Vol VI, page 1050. |
11/20/1863; Captain Turner says hospital not fit for prison
use. |
|
Official Records,
Series II, Vol VI, page 1086. |
11/23/1863; Carrington reiterates Texas Hospital not fit for
prison use, and requests that GHs #20 & #23 be used as prison hospitals. |
|
RG
109, Ch. 6, Vol. 151, p. 50 |
1/1863 - 11/1863; Statistics of Texas Hospital - hospital closed after
November, 1863 |
|
Official Records,
Ser. II, Vol. VI, pp. 1086-87 |
12/17/1863; General Hospital #10 is ordered to be closed;
stores from the Texas Hospital are sought to alleviate suffering in GH#10 |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/13/1864; Texas, Alabama Hospitals, GH#10, GH#11 permanently
closed and patients moved to Howard's Grove. |
