Chimborazo Hospital
An extremely large hospital facility constructed after the outbreak of was and first opened 17 October 1861. It was on land bound 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 Equador. 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.
http://www.vcu.edu/dl/civilwar/cwhosps.html#c
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The most famous Confederate hospital was Chimborazo in Richmond, Virginia, overlooking the James River on the Chimborazo Heights. It had a capacity of over 8,000 patients and was the largest military hospital in the continent's history. Chimborazo consisted of five separate hospitals, a total of 150 buildings holding 40 to 60 patients each. Convalescents were housed in tents. On the grounds were "five soup houses, five ice houses, Russian bath houses, a bakery capable of making ten thousand loaves of bread daily, and a brewery in which four hundred kegs of beer were brewed at a time." The hospital used the large farm "Tree Hill" to pasture two hundred cows and three to five hundred goats. Chimborazo was designated an independent army post; this independent structure was common in all large hospitals in the Department of Virginia.
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~archives/m217.htm?m217text.htm~mainFrame
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Very nice map of the facility
http://www.nps.gov/archive/rich/ri_hosp.htm
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Lots of information here
http://www.mdgorman.com/Hospitals/chimborazo_hospital.htm
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Reynolds R. Carlisle
Regiment Name 8th Virginia Infantry - "Old Bloody Eighth"
Side Confederate
Company A - Hillsborough Border Guard, Loudon County; riflemen; organized prior to 12/1/1859; State Service 4/19/1861 for 1 year; reorganized 4/26/1862
Soldier's Rank_In Private
Soldier's Rank_Out Corporal
Film Number M382 roll 9
8th Regiment, Virginia Infantry
8th Infantry Regiment was organized at Leesburg, Virginia, in May, 1861. Its members were recruited in the counties of Loudoun, Prince William, and Fairfax. The unit was also called "Old Bloody Eighth" and from time to time "The Berkeley Regiment" because its Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel, Major, and one Captain were four Berkeley brothers. During the war it was brigaded under Generals Cocke, Pickett, R.B. Garnett, and Hunton. It fought at First Manassas and Leesburg, and in April, 1862, it totalled 450 effectives. The 8th was involved in the campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia from Williamsburg to Gettysburg, served in the Department of Richmond, then took part in the conflicts at Drewry's Bluff and Cold Harbor. It went on to participate in the Petersburg siege north of the James River and the Appomattox Courthouse Campaign. This unit sustained 30 casualties at First Manassas, lost 8 killed and 43 wounded of the 375 engaged at Leesburg, and had 10 killed and 66 wounded during the Seven Days' Battles. Of the 193 engaged at Gettysburg about ninety percent were killed, wounded, or missing. From June 1 to December 31, 1864, it reported 53 casualties, and many were captured at Sayler's Creek. Only 1 surgeon and 11 privates surrendered on April 9, 1865. The field officers were Colonels Norborne Berkeley and Eppa Hunton, Lieutenant Colonels Edmund Berkeley and Charles B. Tebbs, and Majors William N. Berkeley and James Thrift.