|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/7/1860; Smith’s Armory Band plays at all the different political parties’
headquarters, including the African Church |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
2/8/1861; detailed account of Governor
Letcher's inspection visit to the Armory and Tredegar |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/4/1861; lengthy (and graphic)
account of an explosion near Thomas' Factory and the State Armory which
killed local chemist Joseph Laidley |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/4/1861; fatal explosion at the Armory |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/5/1861; Public guard makes its
annual 4th of July parade on Capitol Square |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/3/1861; Jas. H. Burton, Supt. C.
S. Armory, taking bids for stone. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/15/1861; Armory is taking bids
for building a brick wall |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/23/1861; Pattern maker needed at
the Armory |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/27/1861; Hodge cartridges tested
at Armory on 8/26, with success |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
9/18/1861; the State Armory is at
the corner of 7th and Cary |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/26/1861; The State Armory is now at the
corner of 7th and Cary streets |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/2/1861; description of the armament shops on
7th streets |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/8/1861;
Geo. Sheridan,
Ala. soldier, goes crazy, runs through streets in underwear, leaps to death
in canal at "Armory Bridge" |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/11/1861; excellent description of the Richmond Arsenal and
its operation. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/12/1861;
CS Armory seeks
pattern makers & smiths |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/21/1861;
description of the celebration of the anniversary of the Battle of Yorktown
- Armory Band and Public guard put on festivities in Capitol Square |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/31/1861; flint-lock muskets are being
altered daily at the State Armory, at Stuart's Factory at 7th and Cary
streets |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/7/1861;
CS Armory very
active now |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/13/1861;
Capt. B. G.
Baldwin commanding Richmond Arsenal is selling a horse |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/14/1861;
Public Guard
displaced from State Armory |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
2/10/1862;
gunsmiths needed at Va. Armory, corner 7th &
Cary |
|
Richmond
Whig |
2/24/1862; crowds of people have
been visiting President Davis at his residence. Armory Band is present |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/3/1862; thirteen local defence
companies are marched to the "Virginia State Armory, corner of Cary and 7th
streets" and given weapons |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
3/18/1862; workers at the state armory especially loyal |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
3/27/1862; worker at Richmond Armory, 7th Street, injured when
shell explodes |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
3/27/1862; two “good grinders” needed at Richmond Arsenal |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
3/29/1862; Richmond
Arsenal employees form company, Jas. D. Brown Capt. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
4/7/1862; Co. B Arsenal Battalion organized, officers named. Other
Governmental agencies organizing for local defense |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
4/12/1862; old cannon on street corners should be recycled – bell in steeple
of Dr. Reed’s Church sent to the Armory to be recycled |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/19/1862; employee at the
"Confederate Arsenal" shoots the master carpenter of the place |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
4/21/1862; Shooting at C. S. Arsenal – men preparing to present horse to
Briscoe Baldwin |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
4/24/1862; Tredegar Battalion parades with the
Armory Band in Capitol Square, and is inspected by the Governor |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
4/28/1862; Richmond Arsenal adv for chemist to make percussion caps |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
5/6/1862; Jas D. Browne, Supt Arty Workshop, Richmond Arsenal, needs
laborers |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
5/24/1862; Mr. Jas. D. Browne, Supt. Arsenal, wants 5000 barrels charcoal |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/27/1862; fair
for benefit of wounded soldiers to be held at Pratt’s Castle tonight –
Armory Band to play, and ice cream to be served |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
7/9/1862; accident at Thomas' factory - wagoner
blows his fingers off while off-loading muskets picked up on the
battlefield. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/11/1862; 25,000
small arms received at Richmond Arsenal, collected on Seven Days’
battlefields |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/21/1862;
Richmond Arsenal workshops established on Williamsburg Road, near Toll Gate,
for small repair jobs on artillery |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/22/1862; body
found floating near “the gauge dock of the basin.” Supposed to be a soldier
who fell in the canal near the Armory bridge a few days ago. |
|
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 |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/16/1862; Supt. Downer at Armory wants contractors to make 50,000 sets of
infantry accoutrements |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/17/1862; Supt.
Downer wants blacksmiths & strikers at Armory |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/17/1862; blacksmiths and strikers needed at
the Confederate Armory, foot of 5th street |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/6/1862; W. N.
Smith wants 25 laborers at Richmond Arsenal, Laboratory Department. |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/25/1862; accident at the Armory - man
working on a loaded musket accidentally discharges it and wounds the man
next to him |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/30/1862; City Battalion and Armory Band
parade -discipline of the City Battalion praised |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/27/1862; Jas.
H. Burton adv 50 machinists for CS Armory, Macon |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/16/1862; C. S.
Armory employees donate $410 to 2nd Corps destitute. Major Downer, the
Supt., donated $50 |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/20/1862; Supt.
Downer adv for two grinders at C. S. Armory. Col. H. W. Clowe is acting
master armorer |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/20/1863; workman at the Confederate Arsenal
severely injured by getting caught in a turning lathe |
|
Charleston Mercury |
3/3/1864; account of Dahlgren's Raid - notes
the Armory Battalion engaging the enemy on the Westham road (Cary St.) and
that 171 prisoners have been received at Libby |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/3/1864; reprinted in Southern Historical
Society Papers Vol. 37 (1909), pp. 198-202. Part two of account of the
repulse of Dahlgren's Raid. Indicates the Tredegar Battalion was
responsible for the repulse. |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/4/1864; correction: the Armory Battalion,
not the Tredegar Battalion, were responsible for repulsing Dahlgren's
raiders |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/19/1864; five guards at the
Arsenal are picked up while trying to get to the Yankee lines and are taken
to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/7/1864; negro injured at Confederate States
Arsenal |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/7/1864; slave of Jas. H. Grant is
seriously injured in an accident at the Arsenal |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/29/1864; excellent paragraph on
the severe beating of a negro Arsenal worker by the foreman of the Smith
Shop there for stealing copper. Gives interesting statements regarding the
treatment of negroes |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
9/19/1864; an employee of the
Arsenal named Taylor, along with two others, are captured while going to the
enemy. Taylor is placed in Castle Thunder, the others released |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
11/15/1864; great description of the operation
of the Ordnance Department - mentions the Arsenal at length |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/30/1894;
great description of Richmond for the Confederate reunion, focusing on how
much has changed since the war |
