corner 6th and Cary street. At various times, known as Western District
Military Prison, Castle Booker, Castle
Griswold, Castle Lightning. Apparently closed in 1863.
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Richmond Dispatch |
4/24/1862; Lt. R. M. Booker has become one of the Assistant Provost Marshals
of the city – he had previously been one of the officers in charge of the
C.S. Military Prison on Main street |
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Richmond Dispatch |
5/6/1862; 5/5 Elias Griswold replaces A. C. Godwin as Provost Marshal of
Richmond. Godwin to Salisbury to replace Gibbs, who is taking a Battalion to
the field. Griswold a lawyer from Maryland Eastern Shore - other details on
Elias Griswold |
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Richmond Dispatch |
6/6/1862; Jas.
Summerfield in Asst. PM guard house, 6th & Cary. To be tried for bounty
jumping. Member of Letcher & Deas Arty., among others. |
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Richmond Dispatch |
6/25/1862;
Georgian confined in the “guard house of the Western District, corner of 6th
and Cary,” shot and killed while trying to escape |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
6/25/1862; man makes a repeated escape from the
C. S. Prison at the corner of 6th and Cary Streets (Castle Booker/Castle
Lightning) |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
6/25/1862; man shot and killed while attempting
to escape from the C. S. Prison at the corner of 6th and Cary Streets
(Castle Booker/Castle Lightning) |
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Richmond Dispatch |
7/11/1862; full
list of men confined at Castle Booker, corner 6th and Cary |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
8/6/1862; captured flag of the 1st
Penn. Reserves is at Castle Griswold |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
8/6/1862; Great description of the Military
District of Richmond - gives details on Winder's office, Castle Godwin,
Castle "Grizzly" (Griswold) at the corner of 6th and Cary street |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
8/8/1862; list of deserters in
Castle Griswold, corner of Cary & 6th |
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Richmond Dispatch |
8/12/1862; Sgt.
J. Walton, G7GA Battalion recently killed trying to escape from military
prison. Not a deserter, but paperless & attempting to rejoin company |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
8/11/1862; List of prisoners in
Castle Griswold |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
9/9/1862; 114 deserters confined in
Castle Lightning |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
9/20/1862; counterfeiter escapes
from Castle Booker |
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Richmond Dispatch |
9/30/1862;
enormous list from Winder of “negroes now confined in the Military Prisons,
in Richmond” – where from, who owned by (if slave) |
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Richmond Dispatch |
9/30/1862; Lt.
Booker to send 100 CSA prisoners back to army today from the “prison under
his charge.” |
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Richmond Dispatch |
10/15/1862;
member of the Richmond Blues put in Castle Booker for desertion |
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Richmond Dispatch |
10/30/1862; All
of Griswold’s detectives fired by Winder. Griswold’s office at corner 9th &
Broad. Booker still Asst. Provost Marshal, western district. |
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Richmond Dispatch |
10/31/1862; more
on Winder’s dismissal of Griswold’s detectives |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/5/1862;
“Military Station of the Western District” at corner 6th & Cary. Chas.
Bernard, 15 La., prisoner there, tried escape from 3rd story – fell &
injured, probably fatally. |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
11/5/1862; soldier tries to escape from Castle
Lightning, and seriously injures himself in the process |
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Richmond
Whig |
11/5/1862; attempted escape from “the military jail at
the corner of Sixth and Cary streets” |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/20/1862;
Booker’s detectives raid restaurant near the Spotswood Hotel looking for
booze. Violators locked up in “Freeland’s factory, corner 6th and
Cary streets” awaiting trial. |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/3/1862; B. R.
Minter, 18VaBn, killed at Castle Booker by sentinel (Wm. Phillips of
President’s Guard) |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/3/1862; long
paragraph on substitute/AWOL/robbery/Castle Booker scam |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/3/1862;
Mayor’s Court items: as usual, many slave items; James A. Minor, NC soldier
(see above), to Castle Booker for forgery; Emmanuel Olliberg (see yesterday)
fined one dollar and released |
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Richmond
Whig |
12/3/1862; soldier shot by sentinel
at the "Confederate prison, corner of Cary and 6th streets" |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/17/1862;
Habeas Corpus case for 3 men confined in Castle Lightning |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
1/6/1863; 100 military prisoners
from Castle Lightning returned to their regiments |
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Richmond Sentinel |
4/22/1864; a deserter confined in
the "soldier's home" on 7th and Cary streets (probably the former Castle
Lightning) leaps out of a three story window, and escapes. He is recaptured
and sent to Castle Thunder |
