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Richmond
Whig |
9/10/1861; description of a rock battle
between the "Shockoe Hill Cats" and "Butcher Cats,"
and the police raid that stopped it |
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Richmond Enquirer |
9/27/1861; interesting Mayor's Court items: one
of the combatants in the "Hill cats/Butcher cats" rock battle unable to
prove his good character, and a slave assaults a "free negress," flees the
court and leads officers on a foot race, before being sentenced to 39 lashes |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
1/28/1862;
little boys caught & fined for throwing
stones at Spotswood |
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Richmond Dispatch |
3/28/1862; Shockoe Hill Cats and Butchertown Cats are engaging in rock
battles, but have not been caught yet |
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Richmond Dispatch |
7/28/1862; Police
break up rock battle at Rocketts |
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Richmond
Examiner |
4/4/1863; youthful rock battles are
occurring daily on Gamble's Hill |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
6/24/1864; boys are throwing stones
at the Washington and Clay monuments and each other. The mayor clamps down
and orders all offenders arrested. Brief description of a rock battle
between boys on Gamble's and Penitentiary hills |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
11/7/1864; two boys
arrested near the Second Baptist Church for throwing rocks. They are
members of the "basin cats." |
