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Added December 30, 2002
Richmond
Enquirer 6/3/1862; people who have beef and hog bladders
are requested to send them to the hospitals to use as ice bags
Richmond
Enquirer 6/3/1862; anyone with furniture wagons or
buggies should bring them to the York River depot to transport the wounded
Richmond
Enquirer 6/3/1862; ladies who work at the Bird Island
Hospital will please meet at the hospital today and bring men's underclothes
with them
Richmond
Enquirer 6/4/1862; gratuitous praise for ladies working
in hospitals
Richmond
Enquirer 6/5/1862; description of accidents involving
freeloading boys on the new connecting railway between the Central road and
the RF&P up Broad street.
Richmond
Enquirer 6/7/1862; accident at the Petersburg RR depot -
man's leg maimed by incoming train. Taken to Bird Island Hospital
Richmond
Enquirer 6/11/1862; Danville Railroad shops have been
fitted up as a hospital, capacity of 500. Praises the site and accommodation
Richmond
Enquirer 6/17/1862; Praise for Capt. G. W. Alexander,
and notes his promotion to Assistant Adjutant General to Gen. Winder. Notes
that he is one of the "handsomest men in the Confederate service."
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."
Richmond
Enquirer 6/19/1862; drunk Alabama Sergeant attempts to
cross the Petersburg RR bridge and is arrested - resists arrest, shot, and
sent to Kent & Paine Hospital
Richmond
Enquirer 6/19/1862; soldier in ward no. 78, Division 4,
Winder Hospital seeks his aunt, who is in town
Richmond
Enquirer 6/19/1862; Bailey's Factory Hospital requests
ladies turn over their empty vials to them
Richmond
Enquirer 6/20/1862; Seven Pines wounded cleared from hospitals; less
than 900 under treatment; mortality small; half ready for service
Richmond
Enquirer 6/21/1862; All out-patients at the Banner
Hospital (GH#12) must report immediately, or be reported as deserters
Richmond
Enquirer 6/24/1862; "shocking outrage" at Oakwood
Cemetery - bodies are left out in the open due to lack of hands to bury them
quickly
Richmond
Enquirer 6/25/1862; man makes a repeated escape from the
C. S. Prison at the corner of 6th and Cary Streets (Castle Booker/Castle
Lightning)
Richmond
Enquirer 6/25/1862; man shot and killed while attempting
to escape from the C. S. Prison at the corner of 6th and Cary Streets
(Castle Booker/Castle Lightning)
Richmond
Enquirer 6/25/1862; soldier attempts to kill himself and
is taken to the St. Charles Hospital
Richmond
Enquirer 6/26/1862; new hospitals have been opened "in
the lower part of the city" in anticipation of "the next fight." Hospitals
previously established have been emptied. Masons offer their lodges as
hospitals, but are turned down
Richmond
Enquirer 6/26/1862; man makes a donation to Captain G.
W. Alexander for the benefits of the patients in the "Alexander Hospital."
Added December 27, 2002
Richmond
Enquirer 5/5/1862; reports on victims of an explosion at
the C. S. Laboratory
Richmond
Enquirer 5/5/1862; 80 Nurses and Waiters needed at
Winder Hospital
Richmond
Enquirer 5/7/1862; congregation of the Disciples church
makes a donation to Winder Hospital
Richmond
Enquirer 5/7/1862; tobacco in the city seized and
congregated by the Provost Marshal so that it can easily be burned "in an
emergency"
Richmond
Enquirer 5/8/1862; notes on the profits of the City Gas
Works and the commendable character of the slave labor force there
Richmond
Enquirer 5/9/1862; 319 prisoners arrive from
Williamsburg - 300 more on the way. All were put in the Libby Prison
Richmond
Enquirer 5/10/1862; notes on the Federal officers among
the Williamsburg prisoners
Richmond
Enquirer 5/12/1862; nearly 1200 prisoners are now in
Richmond - 860 privates paroled and sent off, under charge of Major Warner
and Lt. Turner
Richmond
Enquirer 5/13/1862; daughter of a worker at the Belle
Isle works drowns - body recovered near the Danville Bridge
Richmond
Enquirer 5/13/1862; Catesby Jones and Robert Pegram
arrive in town, along with the 450 crewmen of the C. S. S. Virginia
Richmond
Enquirer 5/13/1862; 913 Yankee POWs in the city
Richmond
Enquirer 5/19/1862; servant of Dr. Higginbotham shot and
killed by a sentinel at Libby Prison while sweeping out the hospital
Richmond
Enquirer 5/19/1862; Soldiers returning to duty will
report to Camp Winder
Richmond
Enquirer 5/21/1862; 12 or 13 Yankee POWs arrive via the
Danville RR, and are quartered in Libby Prison
Richmond
Enquirer 5/23/1862; coroner's inquest held at the Fourth
Georgia Hospital
Richmond
Enquirer 5/27/1862; "Vandalism" at Hollywood cemetery -
to wit: flowers picked from the grounds and trees disturbed
Richmond
Enquirer 5/27/1862; City Council meets to allow the Va.
Central Railroad to erect a temporary track up Broad street to connect it
with the Fredericksburg depot
Richmond
Enquirer 5/27/1862; Provost Marshal raids a "rum shop"
and hauls off the offender to the civilian prison
Richmond
Enquirer 5/27/1862; body servant of G. W. Alexander died
from an accidental gunshot wound
Richmond
Enquirer 5/27/1862; soldier escapes from the
"Confederate Guard House, on Franklin street" and promptly recaptured - he
broke his ankle in the escape
Richmond
Enquirer 5/28/1862; Va. Central RR is building their
temporary track up Broad street to connect with the RF&P
Richmond
Enquirer 5/28/1862; four or five balloons seen floating
over the Yankee and Confederate lines
Richmond
Enquirer 5/29/1862; man mugged at the United States
Hotel - perpetrators hauled off to Castle Godwin
Richmond
Enquirer 5/31/1862; ladies of the various churches are
requested to make bedding for the hospitals
Richmond
Enquirer 5/31/1862; temporary track of the Va. Central
RR has succeeded in removing their engines to the RF&P depot
Added December 26, 2002
Richmond
Enquirer 3/6/1862; monuments vandalized at Hollywood
Cemetery
Richmond
Enquirer 3/6/1862; Charles Palmer and others arrested on
charges of disloyalty and locked up in Castle Godwin
Richmond
Enquirer 3/6/1862; Due to recent Unionist mischief, all
Union prisoners (500 in number) are denied access to anyone or anything from
the outside
Richmond
Enquirer 3/6/1862; 21 prisoners now at Castle Godwin;
general discussion of suitable buildings for prisons
Richmond
Enquirer 3/6/1862; fire at Dr. Gibson's stables -
ascribed to arson
Richmond
Enquirer 3/6/1862; locomotive explodes on the Orange and
Alexandria railroad
Richmond
Enquirer 4/18/1862; son of Mr. Ligon is thrown from
horse and breaks one of his legs
Richmond
Enquirer 4/18/1862; man pardoned from the Penitentiary
after serving time for placing obstructions on the Central railroad
Richmond
Enquirer 4/18/1862; Court of Inquiry for Unionist John
Minor Botts meets, and fails to release him from prison
Richmond
Enquirer 4/19/1862; man drowns in the canal at the foot
of twentieth street - taken to Dr. Higginbotham at the "Confederate prison
in the vicinity", too late to save him
Richmond
Enquirer 4/24/1862; Tredegar Battalion parades with the
Armory Band in Capitol Square, and is inspected by the Governor
Richmond
Enquirer 4/26/1862; Franklin Stearns, lately confined in
Castle Godwin for alleged disloyalty, has been released, and returns to his
"Tree Hill" farm
Added December 18, 2002
Richmond
Dispatch 8/3/1861; article about the organization of the
Alabama hospital - includes detailed letter from Mrs. Hopkins (notes the
date of organization, etc.)
Richmond
Dispatch 8/12/1861; editorial noting the crowded
conditions in the hospitals
Richmond
Enquirer 9/21/1861; Jamestown relic is in the hands of
Thomas Wynne, the Superintendent of the R&P railroad
Added December 17, 2002
Richmond
Enquirer 9/18/1861; notes on Yankee prisoners and the
cost of keeping them in Richmond
Richmond
Enquirer 9/21/1861; Yankee surgeons in Richmond to be
paroled
Richmond
Enquirer 9/21/1861; VMI Board of Visitors is still
meeting trying to figure out how to re-organize - cadets are serving as
drillmasters
Richmond
Enquirer 9/23/1861; Yankee prisoner in the "lower
prison, near Rocketts" shot and killed for verbally abusing a sentinel.
Sentinel praised for doing his duty. Prisoner buried at Shockoe Cemetery
Richmond
Enquirer 9/23/1861; false alarm of fire near the General
Hospital
Richmond
Enquirer 9/23/1861; Two escaped Union POWs recaptured
and returned to Harwood's Prison
Richmond
Enquirer 9/23/1861; notes on Union surgeons released on
parole
Richmond
Enquirer 9/23/1861; 13 Yankee prisoners from Cheat
Mountain (including a member of McClellan's staff) brought to town
Richmond
Enquirer 9/23/1861; 60 sick Georgians have arrived and
are taken to the Georgia Hospital
Richmond
Enquirer 9/27/1861; description of the Bethel Church
Sunday school (20th and Cary streets)
Richmond
Enquirer 9/27/1861; fire at the laboratory in Thomas'
factory - workers flee, but fire is contained
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
Richmond
Dispatch 9/27/1861; obituary notice for Robert Harwood
Added December 16, 2002
Richmond
Dispatch 8/15/1861; notes on individual prisoners
recently arrived from Norfolk
Richmond
Dispatch 8/21/1861; St. Charles Hospital feeding
hundreds daily, on private contributions
Richmond
Dispatch 8/22/1861; Thos. M. Palmer, Surg. 2nd FL, ad
for lost or stolen horses
Charleston
Mercury 6/8/1864; description of the Battle of Cold
Harbor - notes that the sounds of battle could clearly be heard in Richmond
Added December 1, 2002
Richmond
Enquirer 9/25/1861; list of hospitals in Richmond with
current capacities. Notes that POWs are at the General Hospital
Richmond
Enquirer 9/26/1861; Yankee soldier dies at Prison
Hospital No. 1, under the care of Dr. Higginbotham
New
York Herald 1/6/1862; notes on returned Yankee POWs and the
treatment they received in Richmond - notes Dr. Higginbotham for his
beneficence and a "Swiss sergeant" [probably Wirz] who is very cruel
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