People

Mary Jane Richards

An educated African American woman was a Civil War spy in Richmond and a postwar educator.

Joseph Reid Anderson

Joseph Reid Anderson's Tredegar Iron Works produced more than half the cannons used by the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Phoebe Yates Pember

Phoebe Pember was a Civil War hospital matron/administrator and notable postwar memoirist.

Mary Ryan

Mary Ryan caused a munitions explosion in Confederate Richmond that killed more than forty workers, including herself.

Dr. Mary Edwards Walker

An American surgeon, feminist, and suffragette, best known as the first and only woman to receive the Medal of Honor.

Dr. James McCaw

One of the South’s leading young physicians and a Richmond native, he served as Chief of Chimborazo Hospital for its entire existence.