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Richmond Dispatch |
5/22/1862; Alexander arrests fake officer at American Hotel |
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Richmond Dispatch |
5/26/1862; accidental shooting in front of Exchange Hotel |
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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
Whig |
6/18/1862; daughter of Mrs. Rose
Greenhow recognizes a Yankee spy at the Exchange Hotel |
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Richmond Dispatch |
6/30/1862;
soldier accidentally shoots self on steps of Exchange Hotel |
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Richmond Dispatch |
7/4/1862; 3
Yankee debt collectors arrested at Exchange Hotel |
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Richmond Dispatch |
7/26/1862; August
Fisk, soldier, “accidentally” steals $500 from Zella Glenman, “a nymph,
residing at the sinful abode of Ella Johnson, in the rear of the Exchange” |
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Richmond Dispatch |
8/18/1862; Dr. W.
L. Henderson at Howard’s Grove lost Colt #97,618 “somewhere between the
Spotswood and Exchange Hotels” |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
8/25/1862; Louisiana Zouave, evading police,
jumps out of a window of the Columbian hotel, fractures his skull, taken to
Baskerville Hospital, and later dies |
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Richmond Dispatch |
9/29/1862; G. B.
Anderson & R. S. Ripley at Spotswood on 9/27; Wm. Mahone at Exchange Hotel |
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Richmond Dispatch |
10/6/1862; John
Connors, La. soldier, sent to Castle Thunder for trespassing at Columbia
Hotel |
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Richmond Dispatch |
10/6/1862; long
description of 10/4 execution of two 14th Va men: Patrick McGowan & John
Kelleher. Taken from Castle Thunder to Camp Lee in “large omnibus” of
Exchange Hotel, escorted by Wrenn’s Henrico cavalry. Part of Cyrus
Bossiuex’s Co. did the executing. G. W. Alexander in charge. D. W. Rogers, 1
Va., respited 14 days, & Owen Maguire, 1 Va gets 50 lashes. Whipping
performed by volunteer from Wrenn’s Co. |
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Richmond Dispatch |
10/27/1862; Elzey
at Spotswood Hotel 10/25/ Bragg & staff at Exchange & Ballard |
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Richmond
Whig |
1/18/1864; former proprietor of the
St. Charles Hotel was captured by the Yankees while procuring bacon, etc.
for the government |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
9/1/1864; half of the Exchange Hotel
will be used as a soldiers' home for the soldiers from Louisiana |
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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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National
Tribune |
8/17/1899; “A Union Man in Richmond;” part five of
serial account. Describes the scene in Richmond in early to mid-1863.
Mentions hedonistic activity at the Exchange, Ballard and Spotswood hotels;
prostitution and gambling flourishing in Richmond around the Exchange Hotel;
trying to get a pass out of Richmond from Gen. Winder; and subsequent trip
to Staunton on the railroad |
