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Added August 31, 2000
Mutual
Assurance Society policy 1844; depicts the area occupied by Barrett's
Tobacco Factory, from the Library of Virginia
Richmond
Enquirer 1/20/1862; report of the death of ex-president
John Tyler
Thomas
A. Harris CSR, M331 9/21/1862; numerical reports & medical
details, Batteries #4, 5, 9, & 10
Richmond
Examiner 6/27/1864; insolent Yankee POW struck (and
knocked out) for making a slur upon a Richmond lady
Richmond
Examiner 7/5/1864; Surgeon General is going to diminish
the number of hospitals, because few patients are remaining in the
hospitals; the good condition is accredited to the abundance of ice
Richmond
Examiner 7/15/1864; very few prisoners left
in Richmond; they have been forwarded to Andersonville
Richmond
Examiner 7/15/1864; "particular
class" of prisoner from Castle Thunder will be sent to Salisbury, NC
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Richmond
Dispatch 10/28/1861; description of Richmond's attitude
toward U. S. prisoners
Richmond
Enquirer 1/22/1862; description of the funeral of
ex-president John Tyler and burial at Hollywood cemetery
W. K.
Tabb CSR, M331 11/19/1862; nice material on
the guard at Camp Winder
Richmond
Examiner 6/18/1864; description of what Richmond has
given up as the Confederate capital
Richmond
Examiner 6/18/1864; ice for the hospitals is now in
abundance
Richmond
Examiner 6/27/1864; No more flag of truce steamers will
be allowed
Richmond
Examiner 6/30/1864; the canal basin is nasty - if it is
drained, murdered corpses are likely to be found
Richmond
Examiner 7/15/1864; rumor of Chimborazo in
flames is not true - the fire is in the country
Richmond
Whig 4/1/1865; account of the funeral of John M.
Daniel, former editor of the Richmond
Examiner
Richmond
Whig 4/4/1865; excellent account of the evacuation
and burning of Richmond
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Richmond
Sentinel 8/12/1863; price of slaves is more
now than it has been in the past
Richmond
Sentinel 8/12/1863; General John B. Hood is
in the city, recovering from his wound
Richmond
Sentinel 8/28/1863; another slave list from Castle Thunder
Richmond
Sentinel 10/3/1863; Gen. Winder wants to move all POWs to from Castle
Thunder to the Alms House (GH#1)
Richmond
Examiner 10/5/1863; city wants Almshouse (GH#1) back for
the poor
Richmond
Sentinel 4/18/1864; testimony about spies in Libby Prison from escaped
officer
Added August 22, 2000 [Pember, Phoebe Yates.] "Reminiscences of a Southern Hospital, by Its
Matron ." The Cosmopolite , Baltimore, January-April 1866.
Mary
Chesnut's Civil War; C. Vann Woodward, ed. 8/5-26/1861; Accounts of Mrs. Chesnut's visits
to Robertson Hospital and General Hospital No. 1
Official
Records ,
Ser. I, Vol LI/2, p. 812 1/20/1864; illegal recruiting is occurring
among the convalescents at Jackson Hospital
Lowell
Daily Courier 3/11/1864; Rees photo of Libby Prison is on
display in Lowell, Mass.
Official
Records, Ser. I, Vol. XLII/2, pp. 1188-1189 8/18/1864; notes how many patients from
different states are in Howard's Grove, especially Floridians
Official
Records , Ser. IV, Vol. III,
p. 1193. 2/14/1865; negro workers at
Jackson Hospital are volunteering for field service
Richmond
Whig 4/12/1865; Defensive lines around Richmond have
been left intact; many guns captured
Richmond
Whig 4/12/1865; Tredegar Iron Works remain intact
because workers helped extinguish fires
Richmond
Whig 4/13/1865; bodies of Union POWS at Oakwood
Cemetery can be disinterred and sent north
Richmond
Whig 4/14/1865; Belle Isle is to be a refugee camp
Richmond
Whig 4/14/1865; Mathew Brady has been at City Point
photographing Gen. Grant & his generals
Richmond
Whig 4/14/1865; A. R. Waud, among others, is staying
at the Spottswood Hotel
Richmond
Whig 4/15/1865; Libby Prison has 3,000 Confederate
prisoners; Castle Thunder is used for criminals and Federal deserters
Richmond
Whig 4/15/1865; Mathew Brady has forwarded his
negatives of the burnt district to Washington and will continue to
photograph
Richmond
Whig 4/15/1865; POWs sent to City Point; Lt. Bishop
is commandant of Libby Prison
Richmond
Whig 4/17/1865; description of the arrival of Robert
E. Lee in Richmond
Richmond
Whig 4/18/1865; former Castle Thunder officials turn
themselves in
Richmond
Whig 4/21/1865; Gen. Lee was photographed yesterday
by Brady
Richmond
Whig 4/22/1865; Confederates who turn themselves in
are sent to Libby Prison
Richmond
Whig 4/26/1865; Medical Purveyor for the Army of the
James has his office at the Moore Hospital
Richmond
Whig 4/27/1865; Mathew Brady and his corps of
photographers has left Richmond for Petersburg
Richmond
Whig 5/13/1865; Dick Turner escapes from Libby
Prison
Richmond
Whig 5/15/1865; Nothing has been heard from Dick
Turner after he escaped from Libby Prison
Richmond
Whig 5/15/1865; Maj. Gen. Wright is staying at the
Spottswood Hotel
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Richmond
Enquirer 1/3/1862; 240 exchanged Yankee prisoners will
soon be sent North
Richmond
Whig 4/25/1865; Official directory of US officials
in Richmond
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Added August 16, 2000
Richmond
Examiner 5/31/1864; 1100 POWs from Libby are to be sent
to Andersonville
Richmond
Examiner 6/2/1864; deaths in the Richmond
hospitals is (percentage wise) less than it was during the seven days
battles
Richmond
Examiner 6/28/1864; over 4,000 prisoners in Richmond,
but not one arrived at Libby yesterday
Richmond
Examiner 6/30/1864; Mortality in Richmond hospitals is
remarkably small
Richmond
Whig 4/7/1865; Mathew Brady and artists from
Harper's and Leslie's are in Richmond
Richmond
Whig 4/10/1865; Hospitals in Richmond have been
taken over by the federals - large ones are used for Union sick and
wounded
Richmond
Whig 4/10/1865; description of Richmond points of
interest for the "tourist and artist"
Richmond
Whig 4/10/1865; Manchester, undamaged by fire, is
now connected to Richmond by a pontoon bridge
Richmond
Whig 4/25/1865; no more surgeons or hospital
attendants will be paroled without permission of the Medical Director
Richmond
Whig 4/25/1865; description of Gallego Flour Mills
before the war; now it is in ruins
Richmond
Whig 4/25/1865; Relief Commission office is now in
the Female Institute
Richmond
Whig 4/25/1865; "partial list" of views
taken by Mathew Brady of Richmond
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Added August 6, 2000
T.
M. Palmer CSR, M331 6/16/1864; short staff at Howard's Grove
R.
A. Lewis CSR, M331 11/9/1864; requisition for
lumber to build a chapel at Stuart Hospital; recommends cannibalizing an
unused building at Winder Hospital
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