Winder Hospital (Richmond, Va.)

found: NUCMC data from Bucks County Historical Society for Confederate States of America papers, 1862-1865(provisioning and muster roll records of Winder Hospital, Richmond, Va. (1864))

found: Civil War Richmond WWW Home page, Aug. 2, 2001(Winder Hospital; vast hospital complex was constructed shortly after the outbreak of the War at what was then called "western terminus of Cary Street"; hospital's boundaries would be the present city streets of Winder, Amelia, and Hampton Streets, and Allen Avenue; largest hospital in the Confederacy; had numerous natural springs, deep wells, large library, central register of patients, information house, cook-houses, bakeries, food-processing facilities, employees barracks, treatment and surgical buildings, warehouses, 125 acres of farmland used for growing supplies, recreational facilities, bathhouses, etc., provided regular transportation service to downtown, operated own river and canal boats; 98 buildings; numerous of the former ward buildings still standing in the area and have been converted into homes, particularly on Powhatan Street)