:: Pawnee Sunday ::

Information about panic in Richmond, VA during the Civil War known as "Pawnee Sunday"

Written Accounts

Richmond Dispatch	4/22/1861; account of the excitement caused by the erroneous rumor that a Federal gunboat was ascending the James River.
National Tribune	9/14/1899; “A Union Man in Richmond” part six of serialized account. Describes the feeling in Richmond at the time of the Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid, Pawnee Sunday (1861), a female Confederate spy at his boarding house, and other details of life at his boarding house.