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The Cage :: |
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Information about "The Cage" in Richmond, VA during
the Civil War. |
possibly the Henrico County Jail, but positive location unknown.
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Richmond
Dispatch |
8/8/1861; 109 prisoners in the city
jail |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
11/30/1861;
Fire at shed
behind Dibrell’s Warehouse, Cary St. below 21st. Yankee POWs in
adjacent county jail maybe started it |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
12/27/1861;
Attempt to escape
from City Jail foiled |
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Richmond Dispatch |
1/18/1862; 3 POWs escaped from Henrico Co. Jail - 2 ex-CSA soldiers |
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Richmond Dispatch |
1/25/1862; 3 escaped Yankees from Henrico jail recaptured |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
2/10/1862; city jail is being
repaired after being damaged by a prisoner; appeal for a new jail |
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Richmond Dispatch |
4/5/1862; Lt. Semple removes CS soldiers from City Jail and sends them back
to their regiments |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
8/14/1862; the "cage" is
empty of prisoners |
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Richmond Dispatch |
8/18/1862;
detailed list of 12 escapees from city jail, & their crimes |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
9/10/1862; no new prisoners at
Castle Thunder or the cage |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/20/1862; at least 200
inmates in city jail |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/21/1862; City
Engineer making more cells for city jail, at “old warehouse.” |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/2/1862; “Cage
Cases:” Emanuel Olliberg jailed “for exposing his person in the street;”
slave arrested for killing another slave by stabbing |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
4/15/1863; two prisoners escaped from the City
Jail; five men escaped from Castle Thunder |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
5/8/1863; City Jail has been left
unguarded, and there have been several escapes |
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Richmond
Whig |
4/4/1864; man in the city jail fakes
small pox in order to be taken to Howard's Grove, thinking it would be
easier to escape from there, but is found out and taken back to jail |
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Richmond
Examiner |
6/30/1864; Cage items; notes that no new
criminals are being brought in |
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Richmond
Examiner |
7/5/1864; No new admittees at the cage |
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07/17/2008
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