Chimborazo consisted of 150 buildings on forty acres and had capacity for 3,000 patients. Twenty-eight general hospitals were established in Richmond. Her efforts of time and money encouraged Alabamians to donate as well-some of the state currency soon included her image, as seen here. Hopkins donated $200,000 of her own money to the Confederate war effort. Confederate HospitalsĪ shortage of medical treatment caused forty-three-year-old Juliet Opie Hopkins to leave Mobile, Alabama, for the army camps of Virginia, where she established three Richmond hospitals for Alabama troops. Bundled together with thread and buttons, the various parts and pieces were distributed to thousands of local seamstresses who assembled the garments in their homes and were paid for each completed piece.
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Established in 1861 at the corner of 14th and Cary streets, the bureau employed twenty-four professional tailors who cut out the components for each Confederate uniform. In this image, Confederate private Henry Van Leuvenigh Bird, 12th Virginia Infantry, wears a shell jacket produced by the Richmond Clothing Bureau. Bundled together with thread and buttons, the various parts and pieces were distributed to thousands of local seamstresses, who assembled the garments in their homes. Clothing The ConfederacyĪt the Richmond Clothing Bureau, twenty-four professional tailors cut out the components for each Confederate uniform. More than half of the victims were under sixteen-the youngest being only ten years old. Accidents were frequent, and a March 1863 explosion killed thirty-one women and injured twenty-five.
Each of the nearly 300 employees at the Confederate States Laboratory on Richmond’s Brown's Island could make 1,200 cartridges a day. The dangerous work of making ammunition for the army was typically performed by women and children. By 1864, the Confederacy’s chief ordnance officer asserted that the Confederacy had become self-sufficient in the production of war materiel-much of which originated in the capital city. Arming the ConfederacyĪlthough tobacco manufacturing and flour milling dominated Richmond's prewar economy, the Confederacy relied on Tredegar Iron Works and several other local firms to manufacture everything from heavy ordnance, locomotives, railroad track, and iron cladding for naval vessels to buttons and bullets. The departments of treasury, state, and war resided in offices on the surrounding streets, while the Confederate "White House"-home to President Jefferson Davis-was three blocks away. At the Virginia State Capitol, the Confederate Congress shared quarters with the Virginia General Assembly. When the war began, bureaucrats and office-seekers flooded into the capital. Richmond served as the home of three governments during the war-city, state, and Confederate. Army forward in Virginia with the cry, "On to Richmond." Seat of Government
The heightened status of Richmond caused both United States and Confederate armies to focus their efforts on the capture or defense of that city. An influx of troops, profiteers, and refugees, followed by the wounded, sick, and captives from the battlefront, brought shortages of provisions, skyrocketing inflation, and the establishment of multiple hospitals and prisons. Most important were Virginia’s hundreds of factories, whose output nearly equaled that of the rest of the Confederacy.Īs capital of the Confederacy, the city’s population soon tripled. The move served to solidify the state of Virginia’s new Confederate identity and to sanctify the rebellion by associating it with the American Revolution. Once Virginia seceded, the Confederate government moved the capital to Richmond, the South’s second largest city. Why was Richmond made the Confederate capital and how did that status change life there?
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