Information about Stuart Hospital in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.
Also called: Old Fair Grounds Hospital, Fort Stuart Hospital, Barracks Hospital. It occupied the ground now within the limits of the municipal-owned Monroe Park, though at that time the grounds extended north to Broad Street. The present boundaries are Franklin, Main, Laurel, and Belvidere Streets. Up to 1859 had been the State Fair Grounds which were moved to Hermitage. Used as a drill and assembly ground from the early days of the War under various names. Later in the War was the home camp of City Guard. Became Stuart Hospital 2 June 1864 by converting City Guard barracks. Had 16 buildings. Employees listed as 124 in 1864. Treatment hospital with beds for about 500. Named for General J. E. B. Stuart. Dr. S. Meredith, surgeon-in-charge; later, Dr. R. A. Lewis. Taken over by Federal occupation forces and operated as: Post Hospital 13 April-3 August 1865; General Hospital 4 August-1 December 1865; post Hospital 2 December-31 December 1865 under the name of Camp Winthrop. Dr. William H. Palmer, surgeon-in-charge. (from Confederate Military Hospitals in Richmond by Robert W. Waitt, Jr., Official Publication #22 Richmond Civil War Centennial committee, Richmond, Virginia 1964.)
9/30/1864; Richmond General Hospital #9 is to directed to send all Mississippians to Stuart Hospital and those from Alabama, Texas, Florida, and Arkansas to Howard's Grove