An extremely large hospital facility constructed after the outbreak of war and
first opened 17 October 1861. It was on land bounded by the present streets of
Clay on the north, 30th on the west, 34th on the east, and
the bottom of the hill on the south. The Richmond National Battlefield Park
building stands in about the middle of the old hospital grounds. Named for the
hill on which it was located which was named after Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador.
One of the largest of all military hospitals up to its time. Normal occupancy
was about 3,000. It had about 120 buildings in all. Those for patients were
divided into five divisions. It had its own ice house, soup house, bakery, soap
factory, etc., operated its own farms, beef and goat herds, canal trading boat.
Divisions were designated for Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, Maryland,
at the beginning, but names varied at different periods. Medical staff about 45.
Had natural springs. It claimed to have handled 17,000 wounded cases. Dr. James
B. McCaw, surgeon-in-chief. Operated by Federal occupation forces for several
weeks. [From Confederate Military Hospitals in Richmond by Robert
W. Waitt, Jr., Official Publication #22 Richmond Civil War Centennial committee,
Richmond, Virginia 1964.]
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/3/1860; adv for Medical College Hospital,
gives prices and names surgeons, McCaw, Gibson and Peticolas among them |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
3/28/1861; ad for the summer schedule of
classes at the Medical College - McCaw and Gibson are listed as professors;
students will have access to patients at Bellevue Hospital and Alms House
free of charge |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/10/1861; J. B. McCaw (later
Surgeon in Charge at Chimborazo Hospital) amongst others is raising a
company of mounted rifles |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/16/1861; Richmond Howitzers have
moved from Howard's Grove to Chimborazo Hill |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/22/1861, p. 3; Richmond Howitzers
camped on Chimborazo hill, with new military road "leading from the
plateau," along the declivity, to the encampment at Rocketts. Artillery
posted atop the hill. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/5/1861; Thomas Artillery
stationed at "Camp Chimborazo," fired July 4 salute. |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/5/1861; Thomas Artillery
stationed at "Camp Chimborazo," fired July 4 salute. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/10/1861; J. B. McCaw is
"Consulting Physician" for the Virginia Life Insurance Company |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/16/1861; 15 recruits needed for
the Hampden Artillery at Camp Chimborazo |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/23/1861; report of the city
committee to deal with wounded from the Battle of First Manassas. Drs. McCaw
and Hancock (amongst others) are to go to Manassas, while Luther Libby and
George S. Palmer (amongst others) are on a committee to procure
accommodations. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/22/1861; 14th AL encamped just
beyond Bloody Run gully; dress parades "occur on the level ground just above
the gully" (Chimborazo Hill) |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
9/24/1861; Medical College notice for the next
term, includes listing of professors (McCaw, Gibson, Peticolas, etc) |
|
Joseph F. Powell file, M346 |
1861 (ca. October); $58,883.80 paid for work done at
Chimborazo: Summary of extremely important itemized invoice for construction
of buildings that will become Chimborazo Hospital. |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/2/1861; excellent description of the
building of the facilities that will become Chimborazo Hospital - originally
intended to be winter quarters |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/8/1861;
death notice of
Mary E. McCaw, daughter of Dr. Wm. R. McCaw (sister to J. B. McCaw?) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/12/1861;
18 Ga. Hospital
located "near Bloody Run" (Chimborazo) |
| Joseph F.
Powell file, M346 |
10/15/1861; $243.55 paid for work at
Chimborazo Hospital: 13 dining tables & seats @ $12
($156.00), 681 feet @5c ($34.05), 2 writing desks @ $4
($8.00), 2 counters ($20.00), 1 Press 6x6 & door to same
($7.50), Wash Stand & shelf ($3.00), 75 Spittoons @ 20c
($75.00). “Octo. 15th 1861. I certify that this
account is correct & just & that the Hospital furniture was
furnished before I had any Hospital Fund. J. B.
McCaw, Surg.” [McCaw and Winder sign in margin] |
| Joseph F.
Powell file, M346 |
1861; $598.88
paid for Building Stable at Chimborazo Hospital [Gen.
Winder signed] |
|
Joseph F. Powell file, M346 |
10/16, 17, 23/1861; Powell
receives $8000, $10,000 then $14,000 as “part pay for houses
built as barracks.” Noteworthy that the first receipt
is dated the same day that Chimborazo opened. Date of
contract was August 30. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/16/1861;
N. G. Tumley,
Hosp. Steward, adv. for 2 good negro male cooks for Chimborazo. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/25/1861;
Good paragraph on
18th GA, camped at Bloody Run, Guarding POWs |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/28/1861;
18GA & 3GA Bn
left 10/25 for N.C. |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/30/1861; 150 sick soldiers transferred from
"the Confederate quarters, on Chimborazo Heights" to Petersburg |
|
Richmond
Whig |
11/1/1861; Excellent description |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/4/1861; Yankee prisoners, taken
to Chimborazo, make their escape |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/11/1861; excellent description of "the city
of Chimborazo" - describes the buildings as winter quarters, not a hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/11/1861;
18GA & 3GA Bn
returned to Rd on Nov. 8 - Bethel Regt. "now occupies quarters on Hospital
Hill" |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 707, p. 12 |
11/16/1861; Surgeon McCaw directs
that ambulance drivers will no longer deposit their patients at Chimborazo
and drive off before making sure that there is room for them |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/19/1861; 18GA left the city today |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/22/1861; G. L. Gates,
steward at Chimborazo #2, adv. for one male cook |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/26/1861; Editorial complaint
about conditions at Chimborazo. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/27/1861; McCaw replies to the
previous editorial. |
|
OR Supp., Pt. II, Vol. VI,
pp. 522-523 |
12/4-10/1861; 23rd GA marches from Camp Lee to
“Chimborazo Heights” where it stays while “guarding Federal prisoners.” |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 707, p. 16 |
12/5/1861; Surgeon General Moore
directs that Chimborazo will provide provisions for 1000 convalescents,
apparently sent from other Richmond hospitals - notes on scarcity of fuel |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 707, p. 17 |
12/5/1861; cots will be substituted
for bedsteads at Chimborazo Hospital |
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National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 707, p. 23 |
12/30/1861; McCaw is ordered that
he has no authority to grant furloughs to his medical officers |
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National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 707, p. 24 |
1/1/1862; inquiries relating to the
nature of cots at Chimborazo Hospital |
|
VHS 1/9/1862 |
1/9/1862;
wonderful description of the Chimborazo Hospital fund from 10/11/1861 to
1/1/1862; note that 10/11/1861 is the earliest known date for the
establishment of the hospital yet seen. |
|
Asst.
Surgeon E. M. Seabrook CSR, M331 |
1/14/1862; Asst. Surgeon Seabrook
assigned to Chimborazo Hospital |
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National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 707, p. 33 |
1/29/1862; Capt. Warren has been
authorized to build the bath house at Chimborazo Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
2/10/1862;
adv. for lost Chimborazo Payroll |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
2/13/1862;
YMCA meets at corner 10th and Broad. Mr. P.
B. Price tells of “his labors in Chimborazo Hospital. The soldiers there
were eager for religious instruction and reading.” |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
2/27/1862; R. E. Butler, former sentinel at Chimborazo jailed for making
threats against August Friend, Sgt. of the Guard there. |
|
Richmond
Whig |
2/27/1862; man threatens to kill
the sergeant of the guard at Chimborazo Hospital |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
3/11/1862; John, slave of Dr. McCaw, gets 25 lashes for stealing supplies
from Chimborazo Hospital |
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National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 707, p. 46 |
3/14/1862; letter to McCaw
describing an insolent ambulance master, who attempted to check negroes into
Chimborazo Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
3/18/1862; McCaw adv for 500 negroes (“tobacco hands
preferred”) to work at Chimborazo |
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National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 707, p. 55 |
3/25/1862; regulations for Surgeons
living at Chimborazo Hospital; notes that there are accommodations for 12
surgeons there |
|
Summary of William Liggan file, M346, National Archives |
3/29/1862; Bath House (and other
assorted carpentry) is built at Chimborazo Hospital |
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National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 707, p. 59 |
3/31/1862; Louisiana Hospital
proposes to swap convalescents for sick Louisianans from Chimborazo Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/4/1862; ladies of Richmond donate $113.25 to
Chimborazo, originally intended for the proposed “Sidney Hospital” |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch.
6, Vol. 408, p. 8 |
4/9/1862; McCaw directs that every
hospital at Chimborazo shall have a dead house - gives particulars about
their operations |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/11/1862; Chimborazo adv for 50 negro men to work as
nurses |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
4/17/1862; grocer selling butter at illegal price has 100lbs seized and sent
to Chimborazo Hospital |
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National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 707, p. 78 |
4/21/1862; notice that Richmond
hospitals (except Chimborazo) must take all patients brought by the
ambulances - the overcrowding cannot be helped |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 707, p. 81 |
4/25/1862; Surgeon McCaw of
Chimborazo Hospital is ordered to Danville to establish hospitals there |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/30/1862; Complaint that a barracks master is employed
at Chimborazo, now that it has become a hospital - "When the buildings which
compose this Hospital were first erected, they were intended for a barracks" |
|
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 |
5/13/1862; appeal for ladies to send old garments and
rags to Chimborazo for use as dressings |
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National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 707, p. 101 |
5/17/1862; appeal from Dr. McCaw
that slaves working at Chimborazo Hospital be impressed by the government to
avoid their return to their owners |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/18/1862; Chimborazo needs
bandages |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
5/24/1862; McCaw warns Chimborazo out-patients to report or be AWOL |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/28/1862; names of men returned to duty from "the five
Chimborazo Hospitals" are posted daily |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/2/1862; Adv for
lost $ - deliver it to Wm. R. Smith, steward, Chimborazo #3 |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
6/3/1862; Chimborazo need
refrigerators for ice |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/5/1862;
Enormous list of WIA at Chimborazo |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/5/1862; death
notice for Lucy Elizabeth Pollard, wife of Dr. S. E. Habersham |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/5/1862; McCaw &
Steward W. K. Smith (Div #3) adv for 2 bakers for "Chimborazo Bakery" |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
6/6/1862; casualty list from Seven
Pines, listing the hospitals where wounded were taken. Chimborazo has 263
patients. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/7/1862; Henry,
employed at Chimborazo, caught with stolen sugar |
|
Charleston
Mercury |
6/9/1862; Description of the Battle of Seven
Pines - notes that Capt. Elliot is raising a force for local defense;
mentions the South Carolina Hospital in Manchester, Chimborazo, Winder, and
the Alms House Hospital |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 707, p. 116 |
6/9/1862; problems with the
delivery times of meat at Chimborazo Hospital |
|
Richmond
Whig |
6/10/1862; appeal for a listing of patients in Richmond - mentions the
difficulty in canvassing the many hospitals and the “streets of sick and
wounded” at Camp Winder and Chimborazo |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/11/1862; patient at Chimborazo,
denied a furlough, cuts his own throat |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. IV, pp. 773-774. |
6/14/1862; Winder rebukes Surgeon
Lane, and describes his observations of Winder Hospital. Chimborazo
mentioned. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/16/1862; Jas T.
Durrett at Chimborazo Hospital adv for lost check |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/17/1862; Rev.
Martin promoted from Chimborazo to 1Va Chaplain |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/19/1862; ad for a stolen cow from
“J. D. Goodman’s Brewry, near Chimborazo Hospital” |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/19/1862; Dr.
Shuford at Chimborazo Hospital - from Alabama? – adv for runaway slave |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/23/1862; ad for the Wise Mounted
Guard to report to “Camp Pleasant, to the left of Chimborazo Hospital” |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/28/1862; J. B.
McCaw adv for lost horse. Address on 5th st between Grace and Franklin |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/1/1862; George
S. Hite, patient at Chimborazo, looking for his father, Dr. W. M. Hite |
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National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 707, p. 125 |
7/2/1862; Chimborazo Hospital must
operate at capacity and tolerate crowded conditions for the present |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/2/1862; J. B.
McCaw still adv. for strayed horse |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/3/1862; Dr.
Edwin S. Ray, at Chimborazo #3, adv. for strayed horse |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/5/1862; Lt.
Jas. Garrity, 5La at Chimborazo adv for company members to come see him |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/9/1862; negro
named Jim, ex-Chimborazo nurse now at Howard’s Grove, steals a watch. Adv
for recovery by George F. Hix, ward master |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/10/1862;
runaway slave from Chimborazo Hospital |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
7/11/1862; call for attention to Chimborazo
hospital - notes that it has many patients, but its remoteness causes it to
be overlooked to those looking to help or contribute. Notes also the need to
keep the buildings clean |
| Richmond
Examiner |
7/11/1862; list of wounded
received at Chimborazo |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/15/1862; G. W.
Nelson list 28 AWOLs from Hanover Artillery. Anyone thinking themselves
unfit report to McCaw at Chimborazo. Battery camped on RYRRR, attached to
Colquitt. |
|
Pennsylvania
Daily Telegraph |
7/23/1862; letter from General Geo.
A. McCall describing his imprisonment; notes that one of his officers is
held in Chimborazo Hospital |
|
Charleston
Mercury |
7/26/1862; notes that the stench of
"suppurating wounds" from Chimborazo Hospital can be smelt upon approaching
Richmond on the train; notes on the military situation and local feeling |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. IV |
8/1/1862; order from F. Sorrel,
re-designating existing hospitals into Gen. Hosps. with numbers. |
|
Ledger of Confederate Hospital Practice |
no date; Rules and Regulations for
Chimborazo Hospital |
|
Ledger of Confederate Hospital Practice |
no date; list of Surgeons at
Chimborazo Hospital |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 707, p. 161 |
8/12/1862; 400 patients from
McLaw's Division are coming to Chimborazo Hospital |
|
National Archives, RG
109, Ch. 6, Vol. 30, end page |
[no date, but before 8/15/1862];
list of surgeons in Chimborazo Hospital #1 and the wards to which they were
assigned |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/8/1862;
obituary for Rawley W. Fennell, d. 9/8 of typhoid, lately clerk at
Chimborazo |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/16/1862; Mr.
Frederick Brauer a resident of Chimborazo Hill |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/26/1862; Editorial paragraph praising the
Hospital Bill. Notes the surgeons are not to blame, but rather the poor
system. |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/26/1862; excellent description of the Senate
debate on the hospital bill. Praises Clopton, St. Francis de Sales,
Louisiana Hospital, and Winder Hospital. Gives some statistics not available
elsewhere. Generally praises hospitals run by women |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
9/26/1862; Surgeon General's
report on Richmond and Petersburg hospitals. Notes that, up to this time,
almost 100,000 patients have been treated in Richmond hospitals. Includes
mortality figures. |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/30/1862; tabular report of sick
& wounded soldiers in the Hospitals in Richmond |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/30/1862; Report of the Select Committee on
Hospitals; reports on hospitals in Richmond and elsewhere and what to do
about them - recommends reforms such as matrons, purchasing agents, and
effective hospital funds. Mentions many current matrons, including S. L.
Tompkins, Mrs. Clopton, Mrs. Hopkins, several heretofore unknown
matrons at Winder Hospital, and many others. Gives statistics of Winder and
Chimborazo Hospitals. Excellent article. |
|
New York
Herald |
10/2/1862; "Waste of Life Amongst the Rebels"
comments on the published hospital statistics (mentions Winder and
Chimborazo) and blames the mortality on the laziness of the Southerners |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/2/1862; religious revivals at
Winder and Chimborazo |
|
Library of Congress |
10/6/1862; reports on the
capacities of Richmond Hospitals and empty beds |
|
Library of Congress |
10/16/1862; reports on the
capacities of Richmond Hospitals, empty beds, and Patients in them |
|
Library of Congress |
11/1/1862; reports on the
capacities of Richmond Hospitals, empty beds, and Patients in them |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 707, p. 203a |
11/8/1862; Carrington desires to
know how many of the 12 Stewards, 246 Nurses and 28 Cooks are white or
black, detailed or employees |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/8/1862;
unsigned adv for lost cow, strayed “from the advertiser, living on
Chimborazo Hill (Goodman’s Brewery)” |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/15/1862; J. B.
McCaw, Chimborazo Hospital, adv for stray mule |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 707, p. 206 |
11/12/1862; notes on some culinary
needs in Chimborazo #5; notes that many improvements have been made |
|
Phoebe Pember Collection,
UNC |
11/29/1862; Letter from Pember to
her sister, noting that she has accepted the position of matron, and
anxiously awaits traveling to Richmond |
|
Asst. Surgeon Babcock CSR, M331 |
12/2/1862; Asst. Surgeon Babcock
assigned to duty at Chimborazo |
|
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 |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 707, p. 228 |
12/11/1862; the sick and wounded
(300 in number) from Howard's Grove are being sent to Chimborazo |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
12/11/1862; slave employed at Chimborazo, found
drunk in the city, runs from the police, and ordered 25 lashes |
|
Charleston
Mercury |
12/13/1862; Rumors about Burnside's army and
local description; notes that Howard's Grove is expanding, and Chimborazo
needs 250 negro nurses |
|
Jeremy F. Gilmer Papers, UNC |
12/25/1862 & 1/10/1863; excerpts
from Gilmer letters describing Phoebe Pember and another matron at
Chimborazo boarding at his house |
|
RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 416, pp. 22-24 |
1/8/1863; Carrington writes on the baking of
bread in Richmond hospitals, urges the construction of ovens. Gives great
details on the Chimborazo Bakery. Notes that GH1, GH4, Winder, Chimborazo
and the South Carolina hospital all have their own ovens. GH9 and GH13
mentioned. |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 15 |
1/17/1863; All the nurses and
attendants from General Hospital #21 are temporarily sent to Chimborazo |
|
Phoebe Pember Collection,
UNC |
1/30/1863; excellent letter from
Phoebe Pember to her sister describing life at Chimborazo and a visit to
Mrs. Hopkins at the Alabama Hospital. Mentions getting special treatment
from the Surgeon General and allowed to board where she pleases and given an
ambulance |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 32 |
1/31/1863; hospital attendants from
General Hospital #21, temporarily assigned to Chimborazo, are ordered back |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 41 |
2/7/1863; "least efficient" surgeons
at Chimborazo are ordered to be reported to the Medical Director |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 709, pt. 2, p. 326 |
[no date, but probably after
2/7/1863]; Habersham gives details of his three least efficient surgeons at
Chimborazo #2 |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 46 |
2/11/1863; Chimborazo morning
reports are "carelessly and inaccurately
kept" |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 54 |
2/21/1863; list of surgeons recently
ordered to Chimborazo and the Divisions they are attached to |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 61 |
3/5/1863; One of the Matrons at
Chimborazo is accustomed to entertaining for dinner - Moore cautions against
the tendency of the matrons to become extravagant |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 73 |
3/20/1863; should a dentist be
detailed to come to Chimborazo during the week? |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 84 |
3/31/1863; Surgeon at Howard's
Grove asks for the loan of carpenters from Chimborazo Hospital to help
construct new floors for the small pox wards |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 88 |
4/3/1863; questions about number of
stewards at Chimborazo; 14 Stewards are working at Chimborazo Hospital |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 94 |
4/3/1863; question about Hospital
Stewards at Chimborazo |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 96 |
4/9/1863; Asst. Surgeon at
Chimborazo Hospital #2 has been sent to 3rd Alabama Hospital; now Division 2
(treating 528 patients) is under-staffed |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 102 |
4/11/1863; Carrington orders McCaw
to retain a Mrs. Stickney as a matron, but Habersham (2nd Division Surgeon)
had fired her previously for insubordination; she is described as "a
dangerous character about a Hospital" |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 112 |
4/20/1863; Medical Directors office
has been moved - it is now two doors from the Mechanics' Institute |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 113 |
4/20/1863; Chimborazo Hospital has
recently purchased an ambulance from the hospital fund |
|
Virginia
Historical Inventory |
5/6/1863; order from Medical
Director Carrington assigning Acting Assistant Surgeon L. C. Crump to duty
at Chimborazo Hospital |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 146 |
6/2/1863; 64 men have been reported
as deserters from Chimborazo Hospital |
|
Phillip Phillips Papers, Library of Congress |
6/25/1863; letter from Phoebe
Pember to her sister describing social life in Richmond, etc. |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 162 |
6/26/1863; questions about an
excess number of stewards in Chimborazo Hospital #2 |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/27/1863; cap and gloves that Stonewall
Jackson was wearing when he was wounded are in the possession of a patient
at Chimborazo |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 165 |
6/30(?)/1863; eviction notice from
agents of Hiram Olliver, kicking Surgeon McCaw out of a house on Marshall
street |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch.
6, Vol. 8, p. 9 |
7/7/1863; Chimborazo Division #5 is
directed to be set aside for North Carolinians |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 174 |
7/24/1863; hospitals have been
reapportioned by state; describes admissions procedures in the future -
mentions the Receiving Hospital (General Hospital #9) |
|
National Archives RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 181 |
7/28/1863; hospital capacity is
increased by reducing amount of space per patient to 800 cubic feet |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 227 |
7/28/1863; any soldiers from
Chimborazo Hospital found in the city without proper authorization will be
examined and sent back to duty |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/1/1863; building at Chimborazo
struck by lightning |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/10/1863; list of hospitals in
Richmond and which hospitals soldiers from the various states are sent |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 196 |
8/13/1863; matrons at Winder and
Chimborazo Hospitals are using the ambulances as "pleasure carriages" and
must be stopped |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 186 |
8/26/1863; all Georgians who are
able to walk are transferred from Chimborazo Hospital to Jackson Hospital |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 207 |
8/26/1863; McCaw is evicted from
the "Chimborazo House," though the owner does not require the dead-house "in
the garden" to be removed; probably refers to the headquarters building |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch.
6, Vol. 8, p. 24 |
8/30/1863; McCaw directs that
hereafter, no carriages or horses will enter or leave the hospital after 8
PM |
|
William Trahern Memoir |
8/1863; excerpts of William Trahern (6th LA) memoir
describing service at Chimborazo Hospital as a clerk to Dr. McCaw. Notes
being provided quarters in "a house not far from the Surgeon's office, owned
by a Mrs. Harrison." |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 24 |
9/1/1863; letter from Surgeon at
General Hospital #9 responding to the charge that ambulances are in the
habit of taking patients to Divisions 1 & 3 at Chimborazo Hospital.
Hereafter, patients will be taken to Chimborazo's "Central Office" |
|
Phillip Phillips Papers, Library of Congress |
9/13/1863; letter from Phoebe Pember
to her sister describing social life in Richmond, etc. Mentions being
offered a furlough but refusing it |
|
Richmond
Whig |
9/14/1863; McCaw announces that
Chimborazo will be used for Va. regiments, and gives details of furlough
policy, etc. |
|
Richmond Sentinel |
9/21/1863; list of hospitals in
Richmond and to which hospitals soldiers from the various states are sent |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 189 |
9/25/1863; Alabamians in Chimborazo
Division 4 complain of food - McCaw is ordered to inspect the food and
transfer men from NC & AL |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
9/26/1863; Virginia Army Agency's
list of wounded & transport to Chimborazo |
|
National Archives, RG
109, Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 276 |
10/9/1863; Chaplains are not allowed
to live at Chimborazo Hospital |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 317, p. 45 |
10/10/1863; Surgeon Davis (Division
#4) reports a number of bunks that are not needed, and recommends breaking
them up, as they are rough and unsightly |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 364, p. 97 |
10/10/1863; Surgeon at Chimborazo
#4 desires to break up excess bunks for other uses |
|
Phoebe Pember Collection,
UNC |
10/20/1863; letter from Phoebe
Pember to Mrs. Gilmer; gives details of her living situation, and social
interaction with S. E. Habersham |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 250 |
10/29/1863; McCaw rents a house for
the matrons from Clopton & Lyne at $1500/yr |
|
Richmond
Whig |
11/3/1863; A matron in the
hospital is writing a book; any help will be appreciated. <Possibly Phoebe
Y. Pember.> |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/7/1863; fire near Chimborazo
Hospital |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 256 |
11/21/1863; list of Surgeons from
Chimborazo who are subscribing to the medical journal that McCaw is
publishing |
|
National Archives, RG
109, Ch. 6, Vol. 708, p. 259 |
11/26/1863; Matron from the
now-closed Louisiana Hospital is recommended to McCaw |
|
Richmond
Whig |
11/30/1863 & 12/1/1863; Controversy
over an ambulance driver at Chimborazo. |
|
Joseph F.
Powell file, M346 |
12/8/1863; $17,657.60 paid “For work done
at Chimborazo Hospital: 44144 feet of upright posts,
tie beams, braces and renailing collar beams to 89 wards
@40¢” [McCaw & S. P. Moore sign] |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 408, p. 8 |
12/14/1863(?); details on laundry
operation for Chimborazo Division #2 - no clothing or bedding will be given
out without an order from Mrs. Pember |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
12/16/1863; tobacco factory of
Lawrence Lottier (later involved with Chimborazo Hospital) burns down |
|
CSMSJ Vol. I, No. 1 |
1/1864; statistics of Winder and
Chimborazo hospitals through 1863. Winder's mortality rate is 5.37% and
Chimborazo's is 6.42% |
|
CSMSJ Vol. I, No. 1 |
1/1864; report by Surg. W. A. Davis
of a tetanus case at Chimborazo Hospital |
|
National Archives, RG
109, Ch. 6, Vol. 709, pt. 1, p. 1 |
1/2/1864; Chimborazo is directed to
have "a sufficiency of ice" |
|
National Archives, RG
109, Ch. 6, Vol. 709, pt. 1, p. 2 |
1/5/1864; McCaw hires a slave of
Mrs. Harwood |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
1/6/1864; Chimborazo and Winder
statistics |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/7/1864; George W. Johnson charges
that he has been illegally detained by James B. McCaw (Chimborazo Hospital) |
|
National Archives, RG
109, Ch. 6, Vol. 709, pt. 1, p. 7 |
1/8/1864; questions on the status of
two men on the Chimborazo staff |
|
National Archives, RG
109, Ch. 6, Vol. 317, p. 79 |
1/9/1864; 51 stoves in Division #4
and description of their uses |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/19/1864; more on George W.
Johnson, illegally detained by Dr. McCaw. He was deemed to be exempt and
released |
|
National Archives,
RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 709, pt. 1, p. 16 |
1/21/1864; the Chimborazo bakery is
discontinued owing to a "want of flour" |
|
National Archives,
RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 709, pt. 1, p. 17 |
1/25/1864; patients remaining at
Chimborazo are ordered to be consolidated into one Division, and the others
closed, the employees discharged if practicable. In the future, women
without children will be preferred as matrons |
|
Official Records, Ser. I, Vol. XXXIII, pp. 1197-1198. |
1/25/1864; Samuel P. Moore directs
that patients be moved from Howard's Grove to Chimborazo. |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch.
6, Vol. 8, p. 51 |
1/27/1864; McCaw directs that the
number of fires (stoves) in the Divisions will be limited and directs
matrons to make repairs to bedding |
|
National Archives,
RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 709, pt. 1, p. 18 |
1/28/1864; patients from General
Hospital #1 and Howard's Grove are to be sent to Chimborazo; rescinds the
order closing down unoccupied Divisions of Chimborazo |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
1/28/1864; fire at Chimborazo |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/28/1864; notes that the
Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal has been published |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 317, p. 86 |
2/1/1864; an Assistant Surgeon will
visit the guard house daily to treat sick members of the Chimborazo guard |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 317, p. 86 - 87 |
2/1/1864; details over the housing
for a matron of Chimborazo Hospital - only $20 is provided by the Government
for matrons' quarters - she required $30. McCaw attempts to have building
erected for them. |
| Richmond
Sentinel |
2/15/1864; Long Valentine's Day
poem by patient. |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
2/19/1864; "The Feeding of the Prisoners"
testimony from the butcher who supplied Chimborazo Hospital and Gen. Winder
(for prisoners) with meat - shoots down the idea that the prisoners are
inadequately supplied, while noting that they may not have gotten the best
beef |
|
Richmond
Whig |
2/24/1864; lamentation that the
Confederate Government will not give the Alms House back to the city. Notes
that "Chimborazo, Camp Winder, Howard’s Grove, etc., afford ample room for
all the sick and wounded soldiers brought to this military department" and
if they fill up, there are many other places to put the patients |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 364, p. 21 |
3/11/1864; Carrington gives
attention to the case of Private Van Lew [Elizabeth Van Lew's brother]. It
seems that Priv. Van Lew was attempting to be discharged from the service at
Chimborazo |
|
National Archives,
RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 709, pt. 1, p. 62 |
3/13/1864; question about horses at
Chimborazo - McCaw reports that he has 250 men "in the trenches" and needs
the horses very badly |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 317, p. 101 |
3/25/1864; Surgeon at Chimborazo #4
requests detail of a soldier from the 6th VA as a Steward and Clerk |
|
National Archives,
RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 709, pt. 1, p. 76 |
3/31/1864; Carrington wishes to get
some extra copies of the Medical Journal when it is published by McCaw |
|
National Archives, RG
109, Ch. 6, Vol. 364, p. 38 |
3/31/1864; Carrington directs McCaw
on the closure of divisions at Chimborazo, to open new divisions only when
one was filled |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/5/1864; Patient maims himself on
Richmond and York River RR to escape service. |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/5/1864; Patient maims himself on
Richmond and York River RR to escape service. |
|
National Archives,
RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 709, pt. 1, p. 82 |
4/9/1864; Habersham (Chimborazo
Division #2 Surgeon) needs extra staff and beds for 400 patients |
|
National Archives, RG
109, Ch. 6, Vol. 364, p. 42 |
4/9/1864; reply to Surg. Genl. Moore
about "changes" at Chimborazo - probably in regards to the closure of
divisions |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch.
6, Vol. 8, p. 85 |
4/21/1864; McCaw directs that dirt
piles will be collected by the dirt cart after 11 AM |
|
National Archives,
RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 709, pt. 1, p. 90 |
5/2/1864; McCaw gets dressed down
for opening 4 Divisions with only 1008 patients |
|
National Archives, RG
109, Ch. 6, Vol. 364, p. 68 |
5/2/1864; Sick and wounded at
Chimborazo who will not be ready for duty in 10 days will be sent to other
hospitals outside of Richmond |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/2/1864; 380 paroled Confederates
arrive at Rocketts - officers are taken to the Officer's Hospital (GH#4) and
enlisted men are taken to Chimborazo |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/2/1864; 380 returned Confederate
prisoners arrive at Rocketts. The enlisted men are taken to Chimborazo
Hospital, and the officers are taken either to private quarters or the "Officers’
hospital (formerly the Baptist Institute, on 10th street, west of Marshall
street)" |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
5/13/1864; describes Richmond during the Battle
of Drewry's Bluff - notes on the admission procedures for the wounded and
gives numbers admitted; notes on the hospitals for various states |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/17/1864; list of hospitals in
Richmond and to which hospitals soldiers from the various states are sent |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/26/1864; praise of Chimborazo,
Winder, Jackson and Howard’s Grove Hospitals, and states that there is ample
space in those hospitals to accommodate any contingency; criticizes an
unnamed hospital for lack of attention to patients |
|
Alexander Hunter,
Johnny Reb and Billy Yank |
5/27-30/1864; Excerpt from Hunter's
book describes his three day stay in Chimborazo. Very negative portrayal of
Chimborazo. |
|
National Archives,
RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 709, pt. 1, p. 115 |
5/22/1864; Carrington desires to
open a hospital at the Old Fair Grounds (Stuart Hospital) and needs
attendants for it from Chimborazo |
|
National Archives,
RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 709, pt. 1, p. 115 |
5/28/1864; 100 tents are ordered
sent to Chimborazo to make a convalescent division (Division #6) |
|
National Archives,
RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 709, pt. 1, p. 117 |
5/31/1864; Chimborazo Division #5
surgeons complain of the inadequacy of the room for the officer of the day
and request carpenter shop be taken over for the purpose |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 364, p. 103 |
6/1/1864; tents have been sent to the four
large hospitals and will be used as convalescent wards - Gen. Lee desires
that all those able to do so be returned to their commands |
|
National Archives,
RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 709, pt. 1, p. 119 |
6/2/1864; McCaw is directed to
employ a barber so that the patients can have their hair cut |
|
National Archives,
RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 709, pt. 1, p. 120 |
6/3/1864; 120 fly tents arrive at
Chimborazo for use as a convalescent division (Division #6) |
|
National Archives,
RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 709, pt. 1, p. 121 |
6/3/1864; Chimborazo's capacity is
increased by reducing the space allotted to each patient to 500 cubic feet.
Furloughs are encouraged to keep beds open in the hospital; more tents will
be sent soon |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 408, p. 34 |
6/4/1864; response to Phoebe
Pember's suggestion of creating a special ward for Marylanders - Surgeon
Habersham feels that it would be favoritism |
|
National Archives,
RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 709, pt. 1, p. 123 |
6/6/1864; poles for one hundred
tents have arrived at Chimborazo Hospital |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 408, p. 34 |
6/8/1864; Phoebe Pember is directed
to furnish a list of food on hand to the Surgeon in Charge by 10 AM every
day |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 364, p. 576 |
6/20/1864; McCaw complains about short staff at
Chimborazo |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/21/1864; Describes conditions |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/22/1864; Robert Hitchcock accused
of stealing opium & quinine from Chimborazo |
|
Richmond
Whig |
6/22/1864; Robert Hitchcock accused
of stealing opium & quinine from Chimborazo |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 364, p. 132 |
6/27/1864; the washing at Stuart Hospital is to
be done at Chimborazo Hospital, which apparently has its own facilities -
the purpose of this is, as Carrington says, to dispense with "negro wenches"
(laundresses) at the hospital |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 364, p. 132 |
6/28/1864; Surgeons at Chimborazo, Winder,
Jackson, and Howard's Grove will not turn in any funds in order that they
might be transferred to new hospitals or others less fortunate |
|
Richmond
Whig |
6/29/1864; a lady has been
fraudulently seeking contributions for Chimborazo Hospital; the hospital
needs no money - they have plenty of funds |
|
M437,
Letters Received by the CSA Secretary of War, Roll 101 |
6/30/1864; Interesting complaint
about malingering and malfeasance at Chimbroazo |
|
National Archives,
RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 709, pt. 1, p. 146 |
7/6/1864; notes on four contract
surgeons at Chimborazo Division #4 |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/6/1864; detail of operation by a
surgeon at Chimborazo |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/7/1864; Chimborazo patients
caught in a "disorderly house" |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/7/1864; two Chimborazo patients
caught in a "house of ill-fame" in Rocketts |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/15/1864; rumor of Chimborazo in
flames is not true - the fire is in the country |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/18/1864; man arrested for trying
to make purchases in the name of Chimborazo hospital. McCaw testifies that
he was not associated with the hospital. Worker at the Spotswood hotel
arrested for selling whiskey at the bar, but released. |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/18/1864; man fraudulently attempts
to buy supplies for Chimborazo Hospital |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/19/1864; John J. Lindsay,
arrested for falsely claiming that he was the agent for Chimborazo, proves
that he is (or was) and is released |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/19/1864; more on the case of
Lindsay, the man who attempted to buy supplies in the name of Chimborazo
Hospital; McCaw denies that he was working for the hospital, but Lindsay
produces papers that gains him his release |
|
National Archives,
RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 709, pt. 1, p. 155 |
7/22/1864; two naked bodies are in
the dead house from Chimborazo Division #5 |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 364, p. 159 |
7/25/1864; North Carolinians at Chimborazo,
Stuart, Jackson and Howard's Grove hospitals are to be sent to General
Hospital #24 |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 364, p. 163 |
7/28/1864; capacities of major hospitals
(Stuart, Louisiana, Howard's Grove, Jackson, Winder, Chimborazo) in Richmond
are decreased by returning space allotment to 800 cubic feet per patient |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 364, p. 166 |
7/29/1864; McCaw is authorized to draw funds to
purchase an "additional" ambulance for each division of Chimborazo |
|
RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 151, p. 43 |
9/1862 - 8/1864; Statistics of Chimborazo
Hospital |
|
National Archives,
RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 709, pt. 2, p. 185 |
9/9/1864; Browne (Chimborazo
Division #1 Surgeon) requests extra surgeons; he has only two at this time |
|
National Archives, RG
109, Ch. 6, Vol. 709, pt. 2, p. 189 |
9/20/1864; questions from Wm.
Carrington about Phoebe Pember (2nd Division Matron) and the alcohol under
her charge; asks if she has been disrespectful towards any other surgeons |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
9/29/1864; praise for the
Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal |
|
Eleanor S. Brockenbrough Library, MoC |
10/28/1864; patient transferred
from Chimborazo to Robertson, by order of the surgeon in charge at Robertson |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/2/1864; Chimborazo
hospital was thought to be on fire - the fire was actually in the country |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 324 |
11/3/1864 - 3/28/1865; Officer of
the Day reports from Chimborazo Hospital #2; reports on conditions in the
hospital |
|
National Archives, RG
109, Ch. 6, Vol. 709, pt. 2, p. 276 |
11/10/1864; two men arrested near
the Chimborazo bath house |
|
National Archives, RG
109, Ch. 6, Vol. 709, pt. 2, p. 286 |
11/29/1864; Division #1 wards
(except six) are closed and the staff are reported to McCaw for duty
elsewhere |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/13/1865; Note to Phoebe Pember in
the personal ads. |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/28/1865; list of hospitals in
Richmond and to which hospitals soldiers from the various states are sent |
|
National Archives, RG
109, Ch. 6, Vol. 709, pt. 2, p. 259 |
1/14/1865; cases of
Fracture of the Maxillary Bone are to be
transferred to Robertson Hospital |
|
Official Records, Ser. I, Vol. XL/2, p. 299. |
1/30/1865; Paul A. Oliver; Union
intelligence report says that Chimborazo, Jackson and Winder have been
evacuated for whitewashing. |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 408, p. 36 |
2/25/1865; Habersham directs that
the hospital wagon shall not be used for any purposes other than official;
the hospital wagon shall only visit the matron's house once a day |
|
National Archives, RG
109, Ch. 6, Vol. 709, pt. 2, p. 309 |
3/20/1865; McCaw is asked for
recommendation to fill the post of Surgeon in Charge of Division #4; Davis
is no longer there |
|
National Archives, RG
109, Ch. 6, Vol. 709, pt. 2, p. 316 |
3/24/1865; report of hospital
property destroyed by Sheridan's raiders on the hospital boat "Bell of
Pemberton" |
|
National Archives, RG 109,
Ch. 6, Vol. 408, p. 36 |
4/2/1865; doctors will remain at
the hospital longer, anticipating the large numbers of wounded to be brought
in |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/10/1865; Hospitals in Richmond
have been taken over by the federals - large ones are used for Union sick
and wounded |
|
New York
Herald |
4/13/1865; excellent letter from Richmond
describing the Federal occupation of Richmond, mentions Tredegar, former
slaves, Rocketts, former rebel hospitals (Chimborazo, Jackson, Stuart) - All
patients now at Jackson, Stuart Hospital is now a US Post Hospital.
Dahlgren's body found and is being returned to Washington. Castle Thunder
and Libby Prison are now holding Confederates. Also notes veneration of
Robert E. Lee in Richmond |
|
Official Records,
Ser. I, Vol. XLVI/3, pp. 882-884. |
4/21/1865; Adam Badeau; report from
the Union Relief Commission on the distribution of rations for the poor;
Chimborazo & Winder are opened for use by destitutes. |
|
National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 709, pt. 2, p. 346-347 |
no date; description of the
operation of the Chimborazo Bakery |
| J. L Gates CSR, M331 |
various dates; mess
details at Chimborazo. A massive CSR. |
| R. M. Harper CSR, M331 |
various dates; food
details at Chimborazo |
| John Minge CSR, M331 |
various dates;
Chimborazo provision reports |
| E. M. Seabrook CSR,
M331 |
various dates; food
receipts at Chimborazo |
| E. H. Smith CSR, M331 |
various dates;
receipts for Chimborazo #3 |
| William K. Smith CSR,
M331 |
various dates;
numerous purchase receipts for Chimborazo |
| W. E. Toombs CSR, M331 |
