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Customs House :: |
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Information about the Customs House in Richmond, Va., during the
Civil War. |
located on the north side of Main Street between 10th and 11th, this building
was used for the offices Confederate Government, and numerous cabinet officials
had their offices here, in addition to the office of the President. This
building survived the evacuation fire, and is used today, greatly expanded, as
the Richmond court house.
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Richmond
Dispatch |
4/24/1861; old U. S. Customs House
is now being used as a stopping place for troops |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
5/21/1861; description of the
offices in the Customs House, and who occupies them |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
6/3/1861; Customs house is being
readied for its occupancy by the Confederate Government |
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Richmond Enquirer |
6/15/1861; Prisoners captured at Big Bethel are
quartered at the Customs House - Richmonders flock to see the captured
Yankees |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
7/12/1861; huge flagpole will be
raised above the Custom House |
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Richmond Dispatch |
6/2/1862; Gaines’
Battery thanks Mrs. R. Adams for meal. Spent night of 5/28-29 on steps of
Custom 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 |
11/15/1862;
update on Custom House theft case |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/29/1862;
slaves accused of stealing treasury notes at Custom House to go on trial
today. Includes slave of Jefferson Davis |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/1/1862; Custom
House robbers, slaves, acquitted |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
7/28/1863; post office has been removed from
the Custom House to the basement of the Spotswood Hotel |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
6/30/1894;
great description of Richmond for the Confederate reunion, focusing on how
much has changed since the war |
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last updated on
07/08/2008
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