This page features selected references to African-Americans in Civil
War Richmond.
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/3/1860; adv for the Main Street Hospital for
slaves, "near the corner of Main and 26th streets," gives prices and names
surgeons, F. W. Hancock and Peachy among them |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
1/1/1861; advertisement for a slave dealer
underneath the St. Charles Hotel |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
5/11/1861; editorial on which
song should be the new Confederate National Anthem; very negative towards
"Dixie" - it is "purely negro" |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
6/5/1861; Negroes are doing good
work on the fortifications at Marion Hill (Battery #2) |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
6/7/1861; city laborers are at work
on the defenses at Marion Hill (Battery #2) |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
7/5/1861; George Watt finds a
little negro girl "near the new fair grounds" |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
7/18/1861; notes that negro workers
on the fortifications seem to happy to be aiding "their native
state" |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
7/24/1861; Runaway slave from the
Tredegar Iron Works |
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Richmond
Examiner |
7/27/1861; slave of Wm. Greanor
was arrested for throwing a rock |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
8/2/1861; 15 negro men wanted to
work in the Alms House Hospital |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
8/12/1861; 3 negro nurses needed
for Medical College Hospital |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
8/30/1861; 5 negroes caught having
a party at Lancastrian Schoolhouse |
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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 |
10/11/1861;
Aleck, slave of
Dr. Wellford, is nurse at St. Charles Hotel. Arrested for theft. |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
10/16/1861;
N. G. Tumley,
Hosp. Steward, adv. for 2 good negro male cooks for Chimborazo. |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
10/17/1861;
J. H. Greanor's
slave George attacks Dr. Wellford's slave Phebe with an axe, in the bottom
near the Central depot |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
10/18/1861;
details on case
of axe-wielding slave of Capt. John H. Greanor |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
10/25/1861; slaves of John Greanor and John
Minor Botts are acquitted of stealing from a sick soldier |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
10/30/1861;
runaway slave
ad., Bellevue Hospital |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
11/11/1861;
slave of James
Royster whipped for stealing coffee from Ga. Hospital |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
11/26/1861; Adv. for nurses
at Byrd Island Hosp. – one white male & 3 or 4 servants |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
12/3/1861; Slave of
Pleasant’s & Frayser whipped for stealing bed from 2nd Georgia Hospital |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
12/7/1861; 2 negro
washerwomen needed at 2nd Ala Hospital |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
12/10/1861; "Negro Prisoners of War" |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
12/27/1861; Slave of T. & S.
Hardgrove punished for providing whiskey to POWs |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
12/31/1861; Thos. B. Rees,
Main between 9 & 10 wants to hire cook for small family |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
1/1/1862; male negro nurses wanted
at Georgia Hospital, 21st bw Main & Cary |
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Richmond Dispatch |
3/11/1862; John, slave of Dr. McCaw, gets 25 lashes for stealing supplies
from Chimborazo Hospital |
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Richmond Dispatch |
3/21/1862; Tredegar
advertises for 40 negroes |
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Richmond Dispatch |
3/28/1862; one of Talbott & Bro.’s negroes shot |
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Richmond Dispatch |
4/18/1862; A. G. Lane wants to hire 35 to 40 male negroes or boys to nurse
at Winder Hospital |
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Richmond Dispatch |
4/19/1862; St. George Peachy (Surgeon, Globe Hospital [future GH11]) adv for
servants to be nurses, cooks, etc. at new hospitals |
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Richmond Dispatch |
4/22/1862; Banner Hospital (future GH12) needs 3 male nurses & 6 negro men |
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Richmond Dispatch |
4/23/1862; male servants needed, Georgia Hospital 21st & Cary |
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Richmond Dispatch |
4/23/1862; male servants needed, 3rd Georgia Hospital 24th &
Franklin |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
4/28/1862; 100 free negroes needed
as nurses at Winder Hospital |
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Richmond Dispatch |
4/28/1862; slave whipped for stealing corn, VCRR depot |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
5/2/1862; Samuel Hardgrove adv for his runaway slave,
who worked at Chimborazo and has been seen around Winder Hospital, trying to
hire himself out. |
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Richmond Dispatch |
5/8/1862; nice paragraph on city gas works and their use of negroes and
laborers (very laudatory toward them) |
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Richmond Dispatch |
5/13/1862; runaway notices for 5 slaves from Tredegar |
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Richmond Dispatch |
5/19/1862; free negro servant of Dr. E. G. Higginbotham at Libby Prison
hospital killed by sentinel |
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Richmond Dispatch |
5/27/1862; account of shooting in front of Exchange ends fatally. Victim
belonged to G. W. Alexander |
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Richmond Dispatch |
5/29/1862; new rates for black patients at Bellevue Hosp. |
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Richmond Dispatch |
5/31/1862; Man jailed at Castle Godwin for hanging his female slave |
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Richmond Dispatch |
6/7/1862; Henry,
employed at Chimborazo, caught with stolen sugar |
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Richmond Dispatch |
6/19/1862; C. R.
Rees’ slave jailed for theft |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
6/19/1862; man attempts to escape Castle Godwin
by blacking his face to look like a negro - recaptured after a chase through
Butchertown and "bucked." |
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Richmond Dispatch |
6/20/1862; W.
Otho Hill, Asst. Surg., at Battery #7, adv for 2 runaway slaves, from Liggon
Hosp |
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Richmond
Whig |
6/30/1862; Surg. Lane advertises
for two slaves who ran away from the 2nd Division of Winder
Hospital |
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Richmond Dispatch |
7/3/1862; G. W.
Alexander at Castle Godwin says negro of Jas. Bates now confined there |
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Richmond Dispatch |
7/10/1862;
runaway slave from Chimborazo Hospital |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
7/10/1862; captured negroes are being used to
inter the dead in Oakwood Cemetery |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
7/14/1862; 4 male nurses and 4 negroes needed
at Louisiana Hospital |
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Richmond Dispatch |
7/15/1862; free
negroes conscripted as hospital nurses – most released because they proved
other employment |
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Richmond Dispatch |
7/15/1862; Jno.
Redford, Keeper of Oakwood Cemetery, adv for two lost negro gravediggers |
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Richmond Dispatch |
7/17/1862; 2
negroes attempt rapes near Coal pits, Chesterfield County. Mrs. Rudd raped,
Mrs. Corse escaped. First rapist, slave of Wm. E. Martin, to hang. #2 to be
transported away. |
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Richmond Dispatch |
7/19/1862; female
slave whipped for theft to Winder Hospital material |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
7/19/1862; free negro steals sheets and
pillowslips from Winder Hospital, and gets fifteen lashes |
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Richmond Dispatch |
7/21/1862; negro
nurse named Bob, GH#4, jailed for theft |
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Richmond Dispatch |
7/21/1862; adv
from RDRR for runaway negroes |
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Richmond Dispatch |
7/21/1862; Kent
Hospital needs “several good, stout negroes” |
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Richmond Dispatch |
7/21/1862; Wm.
Alex. Thom, at Banner Hospital, adv for twenty negroes |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
7/21/1862; slave steals a pocket-book at the
Baptist Female Institute and sent to prison |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
7/24/1862; 20 negroes needed at Banner Hospital
(GH#12) |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
7/24/1862; negroes needed at Kent Hospital (GH#5) |
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Richmond Dispatch |
7/24/1862; notes
on the sale of slaves at an auction on Franklin street |
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Richmond Dispatch |
7/28/1862; Surg.
C. D. Rice, formerly of Central Depot Hospital, now at Howard’s Grove. He is
now accepting claims against Central Depot Hospital for hire of negroes |
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Richmond Dispatch |
8/2/1862; Elias
Griswold adv for drivers - black |
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Richmond Dispatch |
8/2/1862; runaway
slave notice for Caroline County negro employed at Tredegar |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
8/18/1862; colored nurses needed at
Byrd Island Hospital (GH#3) |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
8/25/1862; slave given fifteen lashes for
stealing surgical instruments from Dr. C. B. Gibson |
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Richmond Dispatch |
8/29/1862; Jno.
B. Cary, at Maj. Booker’s office under Spotswood Hotel, hiring out negro
woman |
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Richmond Dispatch |
9/2/1862; runaway
slave notice for blacksmith hired out to Tredegar foundry |
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Richmond Dispatch |
9/5/1862; Slave
of J. E. Johnston arrested for selling liquor to soldiers – sent to Castle
Thunder. Also a local white woman named Mary Gleason |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
9/8/1862; hilarious account of a man who
believes he is the devil and a negro who exploited him |
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Richmond Dispatch |
9/12/1862; Dr.
John R. Hinton, Howard Hospital, “corner 25th and 26th
sts.,” adv for runaway negro |
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Richmond Dispatch |
9/22/1862; 2
soldiers in Castle Thunder for robbing citizen. Mayor forced to contemplate
extent of his authority in city over military personnel. Slave items and
prostitution as well. |
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Richmond Dispatch |
9/27/1862;
interesting editorial on the “stampede” of negroes that occurs when the
Union army approaches – recommends legislation to remove them to the
interior when the army approaches. Berates the delusions of slaveowners as
to the “fidelity” of their slaves. |
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Richmond Dispatch |
10/7/1862;
Mayor’s Court: James Williams, drunk soldier, sent to Castle Thunder; Hoenniger
charges men with burglary, room #44 Spotswood Hotel; slave charged with
stealing money from guest at the Ballard House (discharged); free negro
without papers ordered whipped for smoking a cigar in the street; another
free negro threatens boy in Second Market & used “indecent language” –
ordered to be whipped. |
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Richmond Dispatch |
10/20/1862; W.
Wilson, steward at Keen Hospital, adv for 2 negro men & 4 negro women |
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Richmond Dispatch |
10/23/1862; negro
convicted of stealing bushel of flour from Camp Winder bakery |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
10/23/1862; slave ordered whipped for stealing
a bag of flour from Winder Hospital |
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Richmond Dispatch |
10/27/1862;
elderly countryman sent to Castle Thunder from Fredericksburg, charged with
smuggling negroes |
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Richmond Dispatch |
10/28/1862;
Mayor's Court: many slave items; Jno. Flinn, of Castle Thunder, before Mayor
for theft in prison |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
10/29/1862; slave ordered twenty-five lashes
for stealing beef from Grant Hospital |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/1/1862; Dr.
Hancock jails free negro for trespassing at hospital |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/3/1862; Dr.
Hancock, GH#18, has 2 colored folks in court for operating unlicensed
cookshop beside hospital. |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/4/1862;
Mayor’s Court: Man shot in street dies at Louisiana Hospital; Edward C.
Rice, 25VaBn, fined for breaking tray of dishes over negro woman’s head, in
street, & slapping her |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/4/1862; 2
black females wanted as nurses, GH#19, Taylor’s Factory, corner 24th
and Franklin |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/4/1862; C. D.
Rice, Surg. in charge, Howard’s Grove, wants to hire black nurses, cooks &
laundresses |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/6/1862; 2
negroes arrested for fighting in street in front of GH#18 |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/7/1862; drunk
negroes in front of GH#18 (see above) whipped and jailed |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/7/1862; Chas.
Bell Gibson adv. for 19 black male nurses for GH#1. $18.50 per month. |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
11/7/1862; negroes arrested in front of GH#18 |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/8/1862;
Mayor’s Court: J. R. Anderson slave whipped for stealing wood; Mulatto
arraigned and whipped for “impudence” to the watchman of the Spotswood
Hotel; Police raid Locust Alley – several prostitutes arrested, as well as
their “visitors” |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
11/8/1862; slave of J. R. Anderson convicted
for stealing lumber from the Basin bank - gets fifteen lashes |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/12/1862; Surg.
C. D. Rice, in charge at Howard’s Grove, wants to hire negro nurses, cooks,
& laundresses. |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/13/1862; John
Haley, 1SC, drunk, sent to Castle Thunder; John Norman, free negro, ordered
a “thrashing” for disturbing the peace near the “new Alms-House.” |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/14/1862; negroes arrested for theft & counterfeiting.
Were stealing unsigned notes from Custom House |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/14/1862; negro
run over by dray on Mayo Bridge |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/14/1862; 2
negroes arrested for trespassing at Henningsen Hospital |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/14/1862;
mulatto charged with impudent behavior at Spotswood evicted from city |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/15/1862;
update on Custom House theft case |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/15/1862; 2
trespassers (see yesterday) were punished for Henningsen Hospital case |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/1/1862; Custom
House robbers, slaves, acquitted |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/2/1862; “Cage
Cases:” Emanuel Olliberg jailed “for exposing his person in the street;”
slave arrested for killing another slave by stabbing |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/3/1862;
Mayor’s Court items: as usual, many slave items; James A. Minor, NC soldier
(see above), to Castle Booker for forgery; Emmanuel Olliberg (see yesterday)
fined one dollar and released |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/11/1862;
Mayor’s Court: as usual, many slave items; Mike, negro employed at
Chimborazo, gets 25 lashes (drunk, stealing) |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
12/11/1862; slave employed at Chimborazo, found
drunk in the city, runs from the police, and ordered 25 lashes |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
1/12/1863; smallpox hospital for negroes opened
at Howard's Grove |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
1/12/1863; separate small-pox
hospital has been opened for negroes at Howard's Grove by the city council |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
5/8/1863; servants and laundresses
needed at General Hospital #12 |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
5/8/1863; ten negro nurses are
needed at General Hospital #20 |
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Richmond
Examiner |
7/21/1863; negro soldier
discovered on Belle Isle while paroling prisoners |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
8/12/1863; price of slaves is more
now than it has been in the past |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
8/21/1863; list of imprisoned slaves at Castle Thunder
and Libby Prison |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
8/28/1863; another slave list from Castle Thunder |
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Richmond
Whig |
3/3/1864; six negroes, recaptured
from the Yankees, are taken to Castle Thunder |
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Richmond
Whig |
3/8/1864; four Yankee negro soldiers
are brought to Libby Prison and put in the solitary cells |
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Richmond Sentinel |
4/11/1864; three slaves and a free
negro arrested for stealing blankets from Seabrook's Hospital (GH#9) |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
5/7/1864; negro injured at Confederate States
Arsenal |
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Richmond
Whig |
5/7/1864; slave of Jas. H. Grant is
seriously injured in an accident at the Arsenal |
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Richmond
Whig |
5/31/1864; slave of Dr. Hancock
drowns in Shockoe Creek |
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Richmond
Whig |
6/30/1864; 2 negroes whipped for
stealing meat from Jackson Hospital |
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Richmond
Whig |
7/2/1864; Slave of Dr. Tomas Burton
is killed by falling into a well |
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Richmond
Whig |
7/21/1864; Dr. O. F. Manson's house
was broken into by a slave and robbed of 400 pounds of bacon |
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Richmond
Whig |
7/23/1864; slave who broke into Dr.
O. F. Manson's house was released |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
7/22/1864; slave charged with
breaking into the home of Dr. O. F. Manson [GH24] and stealing a lot of
bacon. |
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Richmond
Whig |
7/29/1864; excellent paragraph on
the severe beating of a negro Arsenal worker by the foreman of the Smith
Shop there for stealing copper. Gives interesting statements regarding the
treatment of negroes |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
8/10/1864; wounded negroes from Burnside's
Corps sent to Castle Thunder |
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Richmond
Whig |
8/22/1864; Maryland soldier and free
negro committed to Castle Thunder, the latter on charge of piloting Hunter
in Amherst county, and the former for being a spy |
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Richmond
Whig |
9/15/1864; free negro charged with
stealing linens from Stuart Hospital, released after it was found that the
Steward of the hospital had already administered a "thrashing" |
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Richmond
Whig |
10/27/1864;
negro boy is killed after trying to jump on
to the Fredericksburg train on Broad street; appeal for this practice to be
stopped |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
8/5/1864; items from the Mayor's
docket: two negro girls are thrashed for calling a white man "poor white
trash;" a boy escapee from the Alms House is sent back there after stoning a
man at the Petersburg depot |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
8/10/1864; 90 wounded prisoners,
including a dozen negro soldiers, arrive at Libby. Gives negative commentary
on the negro troops' appearance and smell. |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
8/26/1864; 80 negro POWs, taken at
the Battle of the Crater, are brought to Castle Thunder |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
9/10/1864; former keeper of "the
Rebel House," under the Exchange Hotel and a free negro escape from Castle
Thunder and are recaptured |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
10/27/1864; negro boy is killed
after trying to jump on to the Fredericksburg train on Broad street; appeal
for this practice to be stopped |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
11/5/1864; Wm., slave of Sally Tompkins charged with
burglary |
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Richmond
Whig |
11/5/1864;
slave of Sally Tompkins arrested for
burglary |
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Richmond
Whig |
11/24/1864;
one white man and three negroes were killed
by the accidental explosion of shells at Tredegar |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
3/21/1865; Winder-Jackson Battalion; incl Negroes
to parade |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
3/23/1865; negroes employed at Winder & Jackson join the
army |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
3/23/1865; description of the Winder-Jackson
Battalion's parade at Capitol square; call for Richmond ladies to produce
a flag for this unit |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
3/23/1865; details on recruitment
of black troops and call for volunteers; rendezvous for negro troops is at
Smith's factory, 21st street. T. P. Turner (Libby Prison) is one of the
officers |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
3/23/1865; description of the Winder-Jackson
Battalion's parade at Capitol square |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
3/30/1865; slave put in Castle Thunder for
helping soldiers desert |
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Richmond
Whig |
5/4/1865; "idle colored" women
of Manchester have been sent to Belle Isle |
