The house at the end of Shirlydale Avenue

Virginia · USA · Hospital

Fifty yards past the cul de sac stood a grey two storey house used as a Civil War hospital. It came down in the 1980s.

At the end of Shirlydale Avenue in Henrico County, Virginia, past the cul de sac, a house stood about fifty yards up. It was used as a hospital during the Civil War, and it was demolished in the 1980s.

The description that survives is precise: grey, two storeys, with a basement, and a barn to the left of it fitted with a drop door into a lower level that opened out at the back.

There is also an old square structure noted in the accounts.

Richmond was the Confederate capital and the fighting around it filled every large building in the county with wounded men. Private houses were taken over as a matter of course, and the families who owned them lived alongside it.

The house is gone and the ground is now apartments. The reports come from the people living there.

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