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Richmond
Whig |
7/11/1861; soldiers have been
buried in an open field near the Alms House - advocates using Oakwood
Cemetery for soldier interments |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
1/15/1862; statistics on Oakwood Cemetery; 540 soldiers buried there so far |
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Richmond
Whig |
1/15/1862; there
have been 550 burials at Oakwood cemetery so far |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
4/28/1862; Oakwood
cemetery is the burial spot for "most, if not all" of the dead from Richmond
hospitals; appeal to hold corpses several days before burial |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
5/5/1862; paper retracts statement of bodies being carried to cemetery
before really dead |
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Richmond Dispatch |
5/6/1862; Oakwood filling up fast, hospitals crowded – paper suggests the
hospitals are “killing off” soldiers |
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Richmond Dispatch |
6/18/1862; nice
paragraph on the “new and beautiful” Oakwood Cemetery – “it has been chosen
as the spot on which to inter the remains of our brave volunteers who die in
Richmond of sickness or wounds.” |
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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 |
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Richmond
Whig |
6/24/1862; many
unburied bodies are lying outside at Oakwood Cemetery |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/28/1862; John
Redford, Oakwood Cemetery, adv for runaway slave |
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Richmond Dispatch |
6/28/1862; 18
dead from 48 NC buried in Oakwood Cemetery. Chaplain McCabe presides. |
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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 |
7/12/1862; Many unburied dead
are lying about in Oakwood Cemetery; appeal for workers |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
7/12/1862;
description of the debate in City Council over Hollywood Cemetery's
expansion and Oakwood's problem with lack of laborers |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/15/1862; Jno.
Redford, Keeper of Oakwood Cemetery, adv for two lost negro gravediggers |
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Richmond Dispatch |
7/16/1862;
soldiers being buried at Clark’s Spring, adjacent to Hollywood. City Council
votes to open up 60 acres at Oakwood instead. |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
7/16/1862; call for improvements
in memorialization at Oakwood Cemetery |
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Richmond
Examiner |
7/26/1862; Oakwood cemetery
described negatively; men are buried 3 deep |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/31/1862; HQ 1st
Va Artillery at Randolph’s Farm near Oakwood Cemetery |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/8/1862; extreme
heat is causing high mortality; 51 interments at Oakwood Cemetery |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/9/1862; 4882
soldiers buried at Oakwood Cemetery, 9/1/1861 – 9/1/1862 |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
9/10/1862; 12th Va.
soldier dies in Castle Thunder hospital and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery |
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Richmond Dispatch |
9/10/1862; City
report on expenditures, fiscal year ending 2/28/1862. Spent $30,409 on Alms
House, $567 for painting roof of Seabrook’s Warehouse, $509 for improvements
at Oakwood Cemetery; VCRR gets permission to use temporary Broad Street
tracks to connect RF&P RR with VCRR – wish to transfer 40 freight cars &
five passenger cars to VCRR; city council wonders why armory for volunteer
companies of the city, 9th between Main & Cary, not yet completed |
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Richmond Dispatch |
9/12/1862;
marriage notice for Capt. L. W. Richardson, at Oakwood Cemetery. |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
9/24/1862; soldier dies in
Castle Thunder and buried in Oakwood cemetery |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/15/1863; man dies suddenly at
the Libby Prison hospital and interred in Oakwood Cemetery |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
6/11, 13/1864;
Oakwood cemetery is described very negatively |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/13/1865; bodies of Union POWS
at Oakwood Cemetery can be disinterred and sent north |
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Richmond
Whig |
4/27/1865; disinterment of Union
soldiers from Oakwood cemetery continues |
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Richmond
Whig |
5/22/1865; Adams express company
has many bodies, disinterred from Oakwood Cemetery, for shipment North |
|
Scribner's Monthly, July 1877 |
7/1877; "Richmond
Since the War" - good material on Tredegar Iron Works, Belle Isle, Libby
Prison, Oakwood Cemetery, and Capital Square |
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Richmond
Times-Dispatch |
11/17/1901; good account of the
burial of Col. Ulric Dahlgren in Oakwood Cemetery, and the raiding of the
grave; author was a member of the 19th VA H.A., camped at Battery 5, and
guarding Libby Prison at the time |
