A large tobacco warehouse that was located on the north side of Cary Street
between 18th & 19th Streets. Mainly used for civilian prisoners, it was
generally packed with murderers, cut-throats, thieves and other desperadoes.
Males suspected of disloyalty, spies and Union sympathizers were incarcerated
here. A large number of its inmates were under sentence of death. A few women
were held here, including the famous Dr. Mary E. Walker. Used by the Federals
for Confederate civilian "war criminals" after the surrender. Formerly the
(William) Greanor's, Palmer's, & Whitlock's Tobacco factories.
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/6/1861; officers for the
Maryland Zouaves are elected; G. W. Alexander is 1st Lieutenant (later
Castle Thunder commandant) |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/27/1861; slave of Wm. Greanor
was arrested for throwing a rock |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/3/1861; Ad to Marylanders from Adjt. G. W.
Alexander, proposing to form the Zarvona Zouaves |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/5/1861; Report of G. W. Alexander's MD
meeting, Convened at Adam's Bldg, 10th St. betw. Main & Cary. Meeting
brought to order by "Capt. Dugan, a fine specimen of a Marylander." Details
on GWA |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/9/1861;
Ad for G. W.
Alexander's Zarvona Zouave guerilla |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/21/1861;
update on
recruiting for Zarvona Zouaves. G. W. Alexander back in town. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/23/1861;
short letter of
thanks to donors from G. W. Alexander |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/26/1861;
Short note to 4
little girls from G. Washington Alexander, thanking them on behalf of
Zarvona Zouaves |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
2/22/1862; Capt. George W. Alexander of Baltimore arrived 2/21, and is
staying at the Powhatan Hotel |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
2/25/1862; Wind storm: slate blown off steeple of Broad Street M. E. Church,
also adjacent scaffolding; 100 yards of Petersburg RR bridge track and
flooring blown into the river; 50 old pines at Howard’s Grove fall – smash
into half dozen houses formerly used by 57 VA; tin roof at Greanor’s Factory
(future Castle Thunder), 18th St., blown off. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
3/6/1862; 21 prisoners at military prison – Samuel Maccubbin Chief of
Provost Marshal police & Baldwin T. Allen clerk of the prison |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/6/1862; Samuel Macubbin has been
appointed Chief of Police, and Baldwin T. Allen has been appointed clerk of
the "prison in Lumpkins' Alley" [Castle Godwin] |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
3/7/1862; Charles Palmer has been released from custody |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
3/18/1862; Capt. Geo. W. Alexander appointed Assistant Provost Marshal; he
has not recovered fully from his injuries |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/18/1862; Capt. Geo. W. Alexander
has been appointed Assistant Provost Marshal of Richmond |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
3/20/1862; G. W. Alexander raids house near corner of Cary & 13th.
Arrested “some 12 or 15 persons of bad character.” |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
3/21/1862; nice details on G. W. Alexander raid, 17th & Cary. Lts.
Turner, Emack & Semple assisted. Arrested every male on the block – 89 in
all. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
3/26/1862; paragraph lauding energy & judgment of G. W. Alexander |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/3/1862; description of Capt.
Godwin and his police detectives. Godwin has his office on "Broad, corner of
Ninth street." Macubbin is "Chief of Confederate States Military Police" |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
4/8/1862; T. P. Turner and G. W. Alexander make dawn raid on bars, Cary
between 17th and 18th. |
|
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 |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/28/1862; A. C. Godwin has
resigned as Provost Marshal, and G. W. Griswold is appointed in his place |
|
G. W. Alexander letter |
5/3/1862; letter from Alexander to
Godwin, containing a breakdown of the numbers of guards detailed at the
various prisons |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
5/20/1862; George W. Alexander carried the dispatches from Drewry’s Bluff to
Richmond; Lt. James H. Rochelle manned “gun No. 2” during the fight |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
5/21/1862; Castle Godwin update. Frederick Shaffer replaces Geo. Frebmyer as
warden - 60 prisoners, neat, clean, well-run, etc. G.W. Alexander praised |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
5/22/1862; kindly-treated poor woman names son after G. W. Alexander |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
5/22/1862; Alexander arrests fake officer at American Hotel |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
5/22/1862; G. W. Alexander says men are impersonating his officers |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
5/27/1862; account of shooting in front of Exchange ends fatally. Victim
belonged to G. W. Alexander |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
5/27/1862; Richard Barry, Caskie’s Mounted Rangers, shot by Provost Guard in
front of Seabrook’s Warehouse. Taken to Alexander Hospital on Franklin St. |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
5/27/1862; body servant of G. W. Alexander died
from an accidental gunshot wound |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/2/1862;
Extravagant story about detective Cashmeyer killing Yanks at Seven Pines |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/6/1862; City
Arms Hotel Hosp., 15th St., established by Capt. Alexander; McDaniel’s Jail
known as Castle Godwin |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/7/1862; poem by
G. W. Alexander, "The Dying Alabamian" |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/12/1862; 2 men
discharged from Castle Thunder (first mention of Castle Thunder?) |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/17/1862; Capt.
Bossieux’s Co doing provost duty. Arrested more than 50 AWOLs on Saturday |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/17/1862;
paragraph on G. W. Alexander, now AAG to Winder by late promotion |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
6/17/1862; Praise for Capt. G. W. Alexander,
and notes his promotion to Assistant Adjutant General to Gen. Winder. Notes
that he is one of the "handsomest men in the Confederate service." |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
6/26/1862; man makes a donation to Captain G.
W. Alexander for the benefits of the patients in the "Alexander Hospital." |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/3/1862; G. W.
Alexander at Castle Godwin says negro of Jas. Bates now confined there |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/3/1862;
“Strong-minded female” captured and interrogated by G. W. Alexander |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/8/1862; excellent details on
Richmond prisons: Libby, Barrett's, Greanor & Palmer's factories, Officer's
prison on 18th street. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/12/1862; Description of the
guards of the bridges over the James River (J. H. Greanor, commanding, owner
of the Greanor building of Castle Thunder) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/2/1862; 600 Yankees have been
exchanged, including women from Castle Thunder; the sickest men from Belle
Isle and Libby are sent first; 4,100 remain on Belle Isle, and 400 at Libby
Prison |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/6/1862; it is contemplated to
remove prisoners from Castle Godwin to Greanor's factory (Castle Thunder) |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
8/8/1862; escaped federal officers
have been recaptured and put in Greanor prison |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
8/12/1862; Castle Thunder to be HQ
of provost-marshal; Castle Godwin to fade "into oblivion" |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/14/1862; Castle Godwin contains
250 prisoners - it is hoped that Greanor's factory (Castle Thunder) will
hold 1,000 |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/18/1862; Castle Godwin will be
evacuated today, the prisoners being removed to Greanor's factory (Castle
Thunder) |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
8/18/1862; Prisoners to be moved
from Castle Godwin to Greanor's Tobacco Factory (Castle Thunder) |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
8/19/1862; German
woman thrown into Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/19/1862; all Castle Godwin
prisoners (500-600) were removed to Castle Thunder yesterday |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
8/21/1862; movement of prisoners
from Castle Godwin to Castle Thunder. Lengthy description of Castle Thunder. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/22/1862; C. S. deserters have
been moved to Castle Thunder from Libby Prison - now Libby has only Yankee
prisoners |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/22/1862; guards for Castle
Thunder and Libby Prison are quartered at the Friends' Meeting House, corner
of 19th and Cary streets |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
8/22/1862; 15 unionists put in
Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/25/1862; prisoner at Castle
Thunder is shot while trying to escape, though not killed |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
8/28/1862; Wm.
Hines, arrested near Drewry’s Bluff & sent to Castle Thunder for trading
with Yankees |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
8/28/1862; B.
Wardwell, ice dealer, exonerated of disloyalty & released from Castle
Thunder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
8/29/1862; A. B.
Martin, private in Washington Artillery, arrested at Spotswood for stealing
120 letters from post office. Sent to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
8/29/1862; Dr.
Rucker still at Castle Thunder, under heavy guard |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/3/1862;
Blossingham the counterfeiter sent to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/5/1862; Loafers
at corner of 14th and Main sent to Castle Thunder by Winder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/5/1862; Slave
of J. E. Johnston arrested for selling liquor to soldiers – sent to Castle
Thunder. Also a local white woman named Mary Gleason |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/5/1862; 2 North
Carolina soldiers jailed at Castle Thunder for disloyalty. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/5/1862; Jacob
Goldstein sent to Castle Thunder – passing bogus money |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/5/1862; Castle Thunder items |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
9/6/1862; prisoner shot by guard
at Libby Prison; guard put in Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/6/1862; loafers
from 14th Street & one other discharged from Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/8/1862; List of
new Castle Thunder inmates, & their offenses. 50 inmates sent under guard to
rebuild a bridge over Rapidan, recently destroyed |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/8/1862;
Augustus Godfrey, King William Artillery deserter, caught and sent to Castle
Thunder |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
9/10/1862; 12th Va. soldier dies
in Castle Thunder hospital and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
9/10/1862; no new prisoners at
Castle Thunder or the cage |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/10/1862; no
changes 9/9 at Castle Thunder – said to be unusually quiet |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/10/1862; slave of James H. Grant breaks into
the house of a slave of William Greanor |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/11/1862; 26
POWs arrive, plus laundress of 26 Pa., who was sent to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/12/1862; list
of commissioned officers POW at Williamsburg & arrived at Richmond. Two
“vivandiers” also caught & put into Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/12/1862;
Fauquier resident sent to Castle Thunder for refusing to take CSA currency |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/13/1862;
General Winder appoints “Lt. Early” to investigate cases of imprisoned CSA
soldiers & expedite their return to army. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
9/15/1862; 3,300 prisoners,
including 61 officers, have been exchanged at Aiken's Landing. Some of the
prisoners were women and deserters held in Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
9/15/1862; prisoner in Castle
Thunder has death sentence "respited" by President Davis |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/15/1862; 41
inmates arrive yesterday at Castle Thunder, 10 at Libby |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
9/16-17/1862; deranged man shot at
Castle Thunder while trying to escape and later dies |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/17/1862;
Patrick McGowan, E59VA, at Castle Thunder awaiting execution for desertion |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/17/1862; Geo.
Lindsey jailed at Castle Thunder as a spy |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/18/1862; more
than 600 prisoners at Castle Thunder. 5/6 are soldiers |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/18/1862; Wm. A.
White, soldier, put into Castle Thunder – has bogus money |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/18/1862; 3
disloyal Virginians at Castle Thunder traded for 3 loyal Virginians in
Yankee hands |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
9/20/1862; brief notices on recent Castle
Thunder prisoners |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
9/20/1862; 84 Castle Thunder
inmates have been taken to Winchester to be returned to their units |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/20/1862; 3
others jailed at Castle Thunder for various offenses |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/20/1862; Three
men at Castle Thunder to be executed – named. To occur next week at Camp
Lee, under G. W. Alexander’s supervision |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/22/1862; 2
soldiers in Castle Thunder for robbing citizen. Mayor forced to contemplate
extent of his authority in city over military personnel. Slave items and
prostitution as well. |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/22/1862; three deserters, confined at Castle
Thunder, to be shot at Camp Lee |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/23/1862; Davis
postpones three executions at Camp Lee (prisoners are at Castle Thunder) for
10 days |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
9/24/1862; soldier dies in Castle
Thunder and buried in Oakwood cemetery |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/25/1862; 15
deserters put in Castle Thunder – 130 to be released tomorrow |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/25/1862; G. W.
Alexander providing men to help collect firearms in city, for army use |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/26/1862; 18
deserters from Critcher’s Battn. sent to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/26/1862; most
of men in Eastern District prison to be discharged & sent to army |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/27/1862; Jno.
Pendergrast (soldier) apprehended as thief – sent to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/27/1862; Geo.
T. Twells, ex-Lieut. McCulloch Rangers, released from Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
9/29/1862; 101 men from Castle
Thunder have been escorted to Winchester to be returned to their regiments.
Notes that the deserters will forfeit 3 months pays |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
9/29/1862; Dr. Rucker is placed in
close confinement in Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/29/1862; among
next batch of northbound prisoners will be A. McMillen & John May, ex-Castle
Godwin men now in Castle Thunder. Also Yankee females |
|
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) |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/1/1862; Jason
Brightwell, C10BnHA, into Castle Thunder for stealing a weapon from Mrs.
Miles Ambler, 10 miles below city. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/2/1862; 42
soldiers sent back to ANV from Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/2/1862; 4
prisoners at Castle Thunder on bread and water, for theft |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/2/1862; 2
brawling sailors, 17th & Main, taken to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/2/1862; B. W.
Rogers, soldier to be shot for desertion at Camp Lee, pardoned on account of
previous bravery. Two others, Patrick McGowan & John Kellaher, still to be
shot. |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/2/1862; one deserter, confined at Castle
Thunder, pardoned from death sentence. His two rap buddies will be hung soon
at Camp Lee |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/3/1862; Dr.
Wm. P. Rucker, at Castle Thunder with treason, murder, arson charges brought
before Judge on habeas corpus |
|
William A. Carrington CSR (M331) (no. 16) |
10/3/1862; inspection report for
Castle Thunder Hospital and Libby Prison Hospital |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/4/1862; more
on Dr. Rucker’s case – back to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/4/1862; 51
Castle Thunder inmates returned to army |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/4/1862; D. W.
Rogers, pardoned from execution, has been respited only. Maybe same as John
Roach, crew of CSS Virginia |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/6/1862; John
Connors, La. soldier, sent to Castle Thunder for trespassing at Columbia
Hotel |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/6/1862; long
description of 10/4 execution of two 14th Va men: Patrick McGowan & John
Kelleher. Taken from Castle Thunder to Camp Lee in “large omnibus” of
Exchange Hotel, escorted by Wrenn’s Henrico cavalry. Part of Cyrus
Bossiuex’s Co. did the executing. G. W. Alexander in charge. D. W. Rogers, 1
Va., respited 14 days, & Owen Maguire, 1 Va gets 50 lashes. Whipping
performed by volunteer from Wrenn’s Co. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/7/1862;
Patrick Fagan kills James Morrissey with single punch. Both in Whitingham’s
Battery. Fagan taken to Castle Thunder. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/7/1862; 735
USA prisoners sent from Libby for exchange, leaving 212. The prison
hospital, lately at Palmer’s factory, will be moved “back to the west end of
the Libby building.” |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/7/1862;
Mayor’s Court: James Williams, drunk soldier, sent to Castle Thunder; Hoenniger
charges men with burglary, room #44 Spotswood Hotel; slave charged with
stealing money from guest at the Ballard House (discharged); free negro
without papers ordered whipped for smoking a cigar in the street; another
free negro threatens boy in Second Market & used “indecent language” –
ordered to be whipped. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/8/1862; Castle
Thunder hospital closed 10/7 & 60 plus patients there moved to Libby |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/9/1862; escaped Castle Thunder
prisoner has been recaptured in the city |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/10/1862; Great
description of failed escape attempt, Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/10/1862; 50
CSA prisoners – presumably Castle Thunder – to be sent to ANV today |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/11/1862;
Frances F. Jannison, of NY, arrested in Culpeper Co. as spy. Sent to Castle
Thunder. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/11/1862; Federal commandant of
the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C. has inspected Castle Thunder and
finds it favorable; alludes to Capt. Alexander's escape from Federal
authorities early in the war |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. IV, p. 917 |
10/13/1862; Mrs. Webster argues for
her release |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/15/1862; D. W.
Rogers, G1Va at Castle Thunder, to be shot at Camp Lee, 10/18 |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/16/1862;
friends of G. W. Alexander present him with “splendid” horse, saddle, bridle |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/16/1862; 2
Castle Thunder escapees recaught. – John Toley & Patrick Donviere |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/16/1862; 6 new
prisoners recd. 10/13 – Jas. Lynch, Barney McNamee & Wm. Rogers of
Whittingham’s Arty. (bread & water); F. L. Smith of Culpeper (disloyalty) &
J. H. Weeks/Wm. Weeks of Culpeper (piloting enemy) |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. IV, pp. 654-655 |
10/17/1862; reprint of
Richmond Dispatch, October 17, 1862 article regarding an escape
attempt. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/17/1862;
Escape attempt at Castle Thunder foiled. To benefit Rogers, the 1Va soldier
due to be shot. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/17/1862; 9th
Pa. Cavalry Colonel moved from Libby to Castle Thunder – under accusations
of bad behavior in Tennessee. Also 17 deserters arrived there from South & 4
1st Md. (US) Cavalry charged with murder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/18/1862; 3
Henrico citizens put in Castle Thunder for stealing govt. wood: Jno.
Kilgrove; Thos. & Robt. Oakley |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/18/1862; James
M. Levert sent to Castle Thunder – impersonating Provost Guard |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/21/1862; member of the 1st VA
Inf. escapes from Castle Thunder. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/22/1862; 17
deserters & stragglers added Castle Thunder yesterday |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/23/1862; T. P. Turner has been
promoted to Captain and will return to be commandant of Libby Prison. In the
meantime, Capt. Alexander will command both Libby and Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/23/1862; 42
deserters from NC put into Castle Thunder on 10/22. 100 inmates to head for
ANV today. J. T. Smith, robbery, to Castle Thunder yesterday. Also a bogus
Provost officer. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/23/1862; G. W.
Alexander adv – found stray mule |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/23/1862; Capt. G. W. Alexander has been
ordered to take charge of the Yankee prisoners in the city |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/23/1862; 64 deserters arrived at Castle
Thunder yesterday |
|
Richmond
Whig |
10/23/1862; Capt. G. W. Alexander has been ordered to
take charge of the Yankee prisoners in Richmond; 61 deserters arrived at
Castle Thunder yesterday |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/25/1862; List
of 5 women now at Castle Thunder. Also Wm. Patterson & Wm. Morris, 15 Va.,
deserters & Geo. H. Munford/Jos. Bradford, Dabney’s Hvy. Artillery, to be
court martialled |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. IV, pp. 660-661 |
10/27/1862; Major Jordan, 9th PA
Cavalry sent from Libby to Castle Thunder under charge of atrocities |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/27/1862; two
Yankee soldiers moved from Libby to Castle Thunder, to be tried as spies |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/27/1862; Jas.
Meaghan, 2nd Miss. Battn receives 50 lashes at Castle Thunder on 10/25 |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/27/1862; J. W.
Sanderson (5VaCav) to Castle Thunder for having forged furlough |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/27/1862;
elderly countryman sent to Castle Thunder from Fredericksburg, charged with
smuggling negroes |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/27/1862; Rev.
T. V. Moore preached at Castle Thunder on 10/26, from “impromptu pulpit” in
main room |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/28/1862; S. W.
McCammon, escapee from Castle Thunder, recaptured in Petersburg |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/28/1862;
Mayor's Court: many slave items; Jno. Flinn, of Castle Thunder, before Mayor
for theft in prison |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/28/1862; Mayor refuses to rule on a thief
from Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/28/1862; notes that the neighborhood of
Castle Thunder is a very rowdy one, and that the vagabonds in Richmond could
make a "good-sized regiment" |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/29/1862; new
deserters confined at Castle Thunder – James Conway and H. Williams, F5Va.
Jno. Collins 13VaBn, & Wm. Conley, 18Va |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/30/1862; escape attempt at
Castle Thunder; notes on those admitted |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/30/1862;
George Rollins into Castle Thunder for breaking and entering |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/31/1862; Jno.
F. Parke, 44Va, at Castle Thunder, announced to be shot 11/3 at Camp Lee |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/1/1862; Lt.
Samuel H. Wyvill, forger, moved into city jail from Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/1/1862; James
Tyrer & Chas. Green into Castle Thunder for fighting. Tyrer then beaten up
in Castle Thunder. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/1/1862; Other
new Castle Thunder inmates: 7 members of 42Miss., pretending to be members
of provost guard; six deserters from E6Va; 2 deserters from Johnson’s
Battery; 20 N.C. soldiers; Wm. H. Boice (drunk); Samuel H. Martin, F58Va,
AWOL; & Wm. E. Disney, forger. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/3/1862;
prisoners in NE wing Castle Thunder attempt to blow it up |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/3/1862; list
of new Castle Thunder inmates. 9 unnamed deserters from Camp Lee; some
disloyal Loudoun county men, & a few others |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/3/1862; member
of the 44th Va (Richmond Zouaves) reprieved from being shot at Camp Lee |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/3/1862; 50
Castle Thunder inmates to be returned to regiments |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/4/1862; list
of 8 men arrested by Capt. Wren’s cavalry for stealing Government wood. All
sent to Castle Thunder. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/4/1862; 6
deserters taken to Castle Thunder, including Jas. Knight, 13 Va; Lewis Hall,
Montague’s Battery |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/5/1862; list
of comings and goings at Castle Thunder. Some names & details: 13 deserters
received from Camp Lee. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/5/1862;
Prisoner totals as of Nov. 4 – Libby has 224 POWs, 196 citizens, 36
Confederates, 68 Yankee deserters, 57 negroes. Total is 571. Castle Thunder
– 290 total. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/6/1862; 3
patients at GH#7 (named) jailed at Castle Thunder for robbing a comrade |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/6/1862; Names
& units of 6 deserters thrown into Castle Thunder, including E. J. Henry,
6th Va. Also 3 Yankee deserters & 2 civilians. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/6/1862; Mrs.
Tabb of Portsmouth, jailed as Yankee spy, released on parole |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/7/1862; list
of 10 new inmates at Castle Thunder & their offences. Includes Jas. Howard,
deserter from Woolfolk’s Battery, & 3 CSN men, all drunk. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/8/1862; 7 new
prisoners at Castle Thunder, including 2nd SC man from GH#18 for
misdemeanor, and a soldier recognized as a crewman of CSS Patrick Henry |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/8/1862;
proprietor of “Wayside Inn” Franklin St. to Castle Thunder for stealing
liquor |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/10/1862; two
mean acquitted for role in robbery at GH#7, released from Castle Thunder. |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
11/10/1862; Castle Thunder details;
Hospital reviewed |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/10/1862; list
of 4 new inmates at Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/11/1862;
Patrick Reardon arrested near Old Church smuggling tobacco. Sent to Castle
Thunder. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/11/1862; List
of 12 new admittances to Castle Thunder; 20 new POWs at Libby, many of them
citizen prisoners. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/11/1862; death
notice for C. H. L’Esteange of England, d. 11/9/1862 at Castle Thunder.
Column inserted “by his fellow prisoners of the citizens’ room” at Castle
Thunder. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/12/1862; 31
POWs arrive at Libby, 21 of them USN. Also deserter from Wheat’s Bn. put
into Castle Thunder. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/12/1862;
Daniel Wilson, deserter from N. C. unit, d. 11/11 at Castle Thunder,
pneumonia |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/12/1862;
Luther Libby chairman of Shoes Campaign for Jefferson Ward; Wm. Greanor and
Cornelius Crew are also mentioned |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/13/1862; John
Haley, 1SC, drunk, sent to Castle Thunder; John Norman, free negro, ordered
a “thrashing” for disturbing the peace near the “new Alms-House.” |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/14/1862;
Charles Grace, 18 Va., deserter, put into Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/14/1862; L. L.
Moore adv for his planning mill, corner 19th and Cary |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/15/1862; 6
deserters added to Castle Thunder from Petersburg and two others, named –
total now 390 on 11/14 |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/15/1862; G. W.
Alexander adv for 3 hardened deserters, ex-Castle Thunder inmates |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/17/1862; list
of newest Castle Thunder accessions & changes. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/17/1862;
Richard Barry in Castle Thunder for shooting Samuel Crump, soldier, on Cary
between 17th and 18th, area known as Dublin. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/18/1862; 40
men to go back to army from Castle Thunder today. New accessions listed.
|
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/19/1862; list
of new Castle Thunder inmates and their offenses including a gang of women
transferred in from Libby. Sentinel also shot at Castle Thunder prisoners,
missed. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/19/1862; Wm.
Weeks, Castle Thunder, Culpeper resident who piloted Yankees at Cedar
Mountain, sues for writ to habeas corpus. |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
11/19/1862; detailed account of bribery and
attempted escape at Castle Thunder |
|
RG 109, Ch. 9, Vol.
199.5, p. 33 |
11/19/1862; T. P. Turner enlists
the help of G. W. Alexander to catch an escaped Libby prisoner. E. Ross
signs as clerk |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/20/1862;
deserter from 15VA Cav Battn has head shaved, is branded, and drummed out
of service. Ceremony took place at Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/20/1862; new
inmates at Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/20/1862; Ira
Parker, Castle Thunder deserter, arraigned for theft. Gets 3 years |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/21/1862; 3
deserters from Fayette Arty and one Federal deserter into Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/22/1862; 4
Yankees escape from Libby on blanket rope. Three men of 25VaBn put into
Castle Thunder for negligence as guards. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/22/1862; new
Castle Thunder accessions |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/24/1862; new
Castle Thunder arrivals |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/24/1862; 2
drunk soldiers to Castle Thunder; 3 rowdy soldiers at Varieties sent to
Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/24/1862;
Mayor’s Court items: 2 soldiers fighting on theatre steps sent to Castle
Thunder; Michael Rourke, 1TX, thief, sent to Castle Thunder; T. W.
Hoenniger (keeping billiard tables without license) charges dropped |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/25/1862; list
of new Castle Thunder inmates; including the watchman of Chimborazo
Hospital, for being drunk and disorderly. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/27/1862; Lewis
Beckham, 1st Va. Bn deserter, caught and sent to Castle Thunder. 28
deserters, mostly NC, arrive at Castle Thunder. Prison now using “corporeal
punishment” instead of bucking. Eight Castle Thunder prisoners rob fellow
inmate. They each got 25 lashes. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/27/1862; R. B.
Richardson, Keen Hospital, corner Main & 13th adv for negro escaped from
Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
11/27/1862; description of the punishment of
"bucking" at Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/28/1862; three
drunk soldiers sent to Castle Thunder, including Francis Fields; also John
P. Usher, H9La, drunk & disorderly patient at GH#13, & 13 men from
Petersburg provost marshal. New punishment at Castle Thunder for misconduct
“has had a most salutary effect on the manners of the inmates.” |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/29/1862; 245
Federal soldiers to be paroled at City Point today – officers named,
including Col. Thos. J. Jordan, 9th PA, who for some time was in Castle
Thunder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/29/1862; new
arrivals at Castle Thunder |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. V, pp. 774-775 |
12/1/1862; Letter from prisoner in
Castle Thunder arguing for his release |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/1/1862; New
arrivals at Castle Thunder, including one federal soldier, charged with rape |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. V, pp. 776-777 |
12/2/1862; Yankee soldier, alleged
to be a spy, argues for his exchange |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/2/1862;
Frederick Lindsey, 1TX & Mathew Pitman, 1GA, both arrested for drunken
fracas at Rockett’s. Pitman to Castle Thunder, Lindsey left behind, “having
had his skull broken by a skillet in the hands of a female whose house he
had entered.” |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/3/1862; 23 new
NC arrivals at Castle Thunder, including one from Libby Prison |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/4/1862; list
of new Castle Thunder inmates. Includes Mike O’Bryan, AWOL fireman from CSS
Jamestown and Jno. Govan, AWOL from CSS Richmond |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/4/1862; 3
Castle Thunder prisoners whipped for assaulting fellow prisoners |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/5/1862; enormous list
of court martial results |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/5/1862; long
list of Castle Thunder arrivals |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/8/1862; huge
list of Libby & Castle Thunder POW increases |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/9/1862;
escaped Libby prisoner arrested for something else & returned to Libby; Kile
Norton, “a South Carolina darkey” employed at Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/10/1862; new
Castle Thunder accessions include citizen from near Winchester; Henry Hall,
1GA; & also one suspicious civilian |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/10/1862;
Jackson Triplett, 54NC, died 12/8 at Castle Thunder – typhoid pneumonia;
unnamed sentinel at Camp Lee supposedly froze to death, 12/7 |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/10/1862; 50
soldiers sent to ANV 12/9 from Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
12/10/1862; Castle Thunder will be a general
depot for all deserters and State prisoners in the Confederacy |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/11/1862; 2 of
Tim Webster’s accomplices, Lewis & Scully, sent North |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
12/11/1862; Scully and Lewis, confined at
Castle Thunder as spies, are to be released and sent North |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/12/1862; flag
of truce exchange expected soon, to include 3 women spies (named) now at
Castle Thunder. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/12/1862; 5
deserters arrive at Castle Thunder, plus 2 of Co. D, 16VA |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/13/1862; very
long list of Castle Thunder accessions, giving name, unit, offense. Includes
man sent from GH#20 for bad conduct. 3 females there sent North yesterday |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
12/13/1862; escape attempt from Castle Thunder
- perpetrators were in "Cell No. 1, first floor, north side." |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/15/1862; long
list of new Castle Thunder inmates, units and charges |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/16/1862; G. W.
Alexander & 50 men to Fredericksburg to help the wounded |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/16/1862; new
inmates at Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
12/16/1862; more disloyalists
confined in Castle Thunder |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. V, p. 787 |
12/16/1862; political prisoner J.
G. Anderson ordered released by the CS Sec. of War |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/18/1862;
Yankee captain named A. C. Webster, WVa unit, put in Castle Thunder, on
12/17 for murder of CS prisoner in western VA |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/18/1862; large
list of new Castle Thunder inmates |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
12/18/1862; details on four new arrivals at
Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
12/18/1862; man who had escaped from Castle
Thunder twice before is recaptured in Rocketts |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/19/1862; drunk
woman falls into the canal near Castle Thunder – infant drowns, she put in
the cage |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/20/1862;
Michael Kearns in Castle Thunder., British subject, but recognized as
deserter from Letcher Artillery |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/20/1862; R. A.
Slaughter, E53Va., died 12/19 at Castle Thunder Hospital, disease |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/20/1862; Capt.
Cyrus Bossieux of prison guard still in command at Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/20/1862; 3
deserters arrive at Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
12/20/1862;
Patrick Golding of Richmond into Castle Thunder for disloyalty |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
12/20/1862; man dies in Castle Thunder of "camp
disease" |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
12/24/1862; G. W. Alexander returns to his post
at Castle Thunder after some time at Fredericksburg with the Letcher
Artillery |
|
Richmond
Whig |
12/27/1862; Castle Thunder described
briefly - hospital is in the upper story, Dr. Coggin is in charge |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
12/29/1862; a plot by 150 prisoners in Castle
Thunder to assassinate the guard and escape is thwarted, and the ring-leader
is placed in irons and fed bread and water |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
12/31/1862; all but the ringleaders of the
Castle Thunder "mutiny" have been released and sent back to camp |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
1/5/1863; five inmates of Castle
Thunder have gotten sick with small pox, and taken to Howard's Grove |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
1/12/1863; lime is spread on the
floor at Castle Thunder and prevents Smallpox |
|
RG 109, Ch. 9, Vol.
199.5, p. 50 |
1/13/1863; T. P. Turner is ordered
to be on a board of inquiry to investigate an escape from Castle Thunder |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. V, pp. 212-213 |
1/25/1863; Ould addresses charge
that Fourth Regiment East Tennessee and other Tennessee and Ohio regts held
in Castle Thunder |
|
New York Times |
1/29/1863; prisoners at Castle Thunder attempt to burn it down. Alexander is
successful in putting the fire out. Mentions prison opposite Castle Thunder. |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. V, pp. 833-834 |
2/19/1863; supplies received |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
3/14/1863; two Confederate
deserters put in Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/25/1863; two soldiers, charged with shooting
two men, have been sent to Castle Thunder to await Court-Martial |
|
Official Records, Ser. I, Vol. X/1, p. 634 |
3/27/1863; captured yankee raiders
confined in Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/30/1863; Capt. Webster, under sentence of
death, attempts to escape from Castle Thunder, but sprains his ankle in the
jump, and doesn't get far before being recaptured |
|
Ohio boys in Dixie..., pp.24-25 |
3/1863; description of the
author's imprisonment in Richmond. Gives a rare description of the interior
of Castle Thunder |
|
RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 151, p. 10 |
9/1862 - 3/1863; Statistics of Eastern District
Hospital (Castle Thunder) - hospital closed after March, 1863 |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
4/3/1863; hospital at Castle
Thunder moved to 21st between Main & Cary |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. V, p. 866 |
4/4/1863; CSA House Resolution to
investigate Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
4/4/1863; Castle Thunder items |
|
Richmond
Daily Whig |
4/6/1863; escape attempt at Castle
Thunder |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
4/6/1863; the Richmond City
Battalion (25th Bn VA Inf) is understood to be leaving the city for active
service due to unsavory types infesting its ranks |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/7/1863; prisoner shot at Castle
Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/7/1863; deserter from the 54VA shot and
killed while trying to escape from Castle Thunder |
| Richmond
Daily Whig |
4/8/1863; prisoners killed |
|
Richmond Examiner |
4/8/1863; prisoner at Castle
Thunder was shot at and wounded after verbally abusing a guard |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
4/8/1863; two Yankee POWs, who had
taken an oath of allegiance to the CSA, attempted to escape back to Union
lines and were recaptured and sent to Libby, then to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
4/9/1863; Castle Thunder items;
notes that two members of the city battalion (the guards for the Richmond
prisons) have been imprisoned for sleeping at their posts |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
4/9/1863; a portion of the
detective force stationed at Castle Thunder has been sent to work for the
Provost Marshal |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/11/1863; details of the execution of Captain
Webster, a Castle Thunder prisoner, at Camp Lee |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/15/1863; two prisoners escaped from the City
Jail; five men escaped from Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
4/18/1863; Two artillerists,
including a man from Battery #2, who escaped from Castle Thunder have been
recaptured |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. V, pp. 518-520 |
4/24/1863; mentioned |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. V, pp. 871-924 |
April, 1863; Evidence taken before
the committee of the House of Representatives of the Confederate States
appointed to inquire into the treatment of prisoners at Castle Thunder (very
large) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/1/1863; prison items; notes on
Castle Thunder and Libby Prison recent arrivals |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/6/1863; prisoners arrive at Castle Thunder
and Libby Prison; 554 prisoner sent by flag of truce to City Point; Libby
now has very few inmates "except political prisoners" |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/7/1863; prisoner is shot and
killed while trying to escape Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/11/1863; Castle Thunder
admittees; 1300 Yankees arrived yesterday - if this rate keeps up, Belle
Isle will be re-opened |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/11/1863; two prisoners at Castle
Thunder die of Small Pox |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/19/1863; prisoners try to tunnel
out of Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/20/1863; more escape attempts at
Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/21/1863; escape attempt at
Castle Thunder |
|
VHS 5/28/1863 |
5/28/1863; Sidney Smith Lee, commandant at
Drewry’s Bluff writes to enquire whether 3 Castle Thunder prisoners who
wrote to him might be released and allowed to enlist in the Navy. All three
were in prison for desertion. |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. V, pp. 736-737 |
6/3/1863; mentioned |
|
Richmond
Whig |
6/7/1864; details on a woman who
told "Beast" Butler that Mayor Mayo had been thrown into Castle Thunder
(false rumor) |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
6/12/1863; 600 prisoners at Castle
Thunder; prison has been improved lately. |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/27/1863; Castle Thunder escapee has been
recaptured |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VI, pp. 62-63 |
6/30/1863 - 7/2/1863; A flurry of
dispatches from Stanton regarding civilian prisoners |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/2/1863; attempted escape from
Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/2/1863; two deserters "lodged" in
Castle Thunder; mentions escape attempt by tunneling. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/6/1863; military prisoners form
the Castle Thunder Battalion. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/16/1863; Lt. Buford, aka Alice
Williams, sent to Mississippi from Castle Thunder. |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/16/1863; Lieut. Bufurd, aka Alice Williams,
has been released from Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/21/1863; A member of the
Washington Artillery, a four-time escapee from Castle Thunder has been
recaptured and put back in Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/22/1863; an enormous bird is brought to
Castle Thunder - wing amputated, still manages to gouge out the eyeballs of
one of the Castle Thunder dogs |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/28/1863; prisoners at Castle
Thunder now have access to the "large plaza" attached to it |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VI, pp. 161-162 |
7/31/1863; Spencer Kellogg, charged
with being a spy and a deserter is held at Castle Thunder. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/6/1863; patient at Winder
Hospital detained at Castle Thunder with no charge and eventually released |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/8/1863; 100 prisoners arrive at
Libby Prison, 65 negroes incarcerated in Castle Thunder |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VI, p. 196 |
8/12/1863; more on Spencer Kellogg |
|
VHS 8/12/1863 |
8/12/1863; Isaac Carrington asks Lieut. Turner
at Libby for charges on Yankee prisoners who were sent to Castle Thunder
from there. One has been there since 9/25/1862 and was "Sent by Capt. Wirtz" |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
8/14/1863; details on a creative
escape attempt from Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/21/1863; list of imprisoned
slaves at Castle Thunder and Libby Prison |
| Richmond
Daily Whig |
8/24/1863; purported letter from
prisoner |
|
VHS 8/24/1863 |
8/24/1863; two patients in the 1st Division of
Howard’s Grove Hospital are taken to Castle Thunder for "exciting a mutiny" |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/28/1863; another slave list from
Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
9/1/1863; Commandants of Libby and
Castle Thunder have been called back for duty, after leave of absence of 15
days |
|
VHS 9/8/1863 |
9/8/1863; four soldiers sent from Chaffin’s
Farm to Castle Thunder for attempting to desert to the enemy |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
9/12/1863; Castle Thunder praised |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VI, pp. 294-295 |
9/16/1863; questions of "horrible
treatment" at Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
9/26/1863; details of the
execution of Spencer Kellogg (convicted as a spy) at Camp Lee |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/1/1863; inmates are attempting to tunnel out
of Castle Thunder |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VI, p. 339 |
10/2/1863; details on certain
prisoners |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/3/1863; Gen. Winder wants to
move all POWs to from Castle Thunder to the Alms House (GH#1) |
|
VHS 10/4/1863 |
10/4/1863; Confederate Guard at Libby Prison is
imprisoned in Castle Thunder for "leaving his post without permission..&
trading with Yankee prisoners" |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
10/5/1863; Guard at Belle Isle put
in Castle Thunder for trading with prisoners |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VI, pp. 348-349 |
10/5/1863; Pennsylvanians from
Gettysburg confined in Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
10/5/1863; city wants Almshouse
(GH#1) back for the poor; Winder wants Almshouse for Castle Thunder
prisoners |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/5/1863; guard at Castle Thunder shoots three
other members of the City Battalion in a fight. Mentions a parade ground
near Libby Prison |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
10/9/1863; 3 guards at Libby Prison
put in Castle Thunder for trading with the prisoners |
|
Richmond
Daily Whig |
10/23/1863; prison break from
Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/23/1863; murder at Castle
Thunder |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VI, p. 431-432 |
10/27/1863; Meredith sends
counterfeit CS notes to be distributed amongst the prisoners; Ould foils the
plan |
|
Richmond
Daily Whig |
11/3/1863; escapee from Castle
Thunder reaches yankee lines |
|
VHS 11/3/1863 |
11/3/1863; J. R. Anderson
requests that one of his workers who is confined in Castle Thunder be
"returned to his employment." Apparently, this man attempted to desert to
the enemy |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/10/1863; case of G. W. Alexander
(Castle Thunder) for "defiant contempt of the authority" of the Confederate
States District Court, will be heard today |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/11/1863; details of trial of
Commandant G. W. Alexander (Castle Thunder) |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/14/1863; six Yankee prisoners in
Castle Thunder take the oath of allegiance and are released |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/16/1863; Yankees escape from
Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Daily Whig |
11/25/1863; defenders of Battery #9
assault a negro and are put in Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/26/1863; brief description of
the escape of a Yankee from Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
12/16/1863; man claims he was
illegally detained by George W. Alexander, and is released |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
12/18/1863; G. W. Alexander,
commandant of Castle Thunder, is arrested for "malpractice in office" |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VI, pp. 1086-87 |
12/16-18/1863; General Hospital #10
is ordered to be closed as hospital and used as quarters for guards at
Castle Thunder. |
|
Richmond
Daily Dispatch |
1/6/1864; two soldiers tried for
breaking into a warehouse near Castle Thunder to steal "yankee clothing." |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
1/12/1864; escape from Castle
Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/16/1864; 18 yankees escape from
building across street from Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/20/1864; most of escapees from
building across street from Castle Thunder caught |
|
Richmond
Whig |
1/21/1864; large number of Castle
Thunder prisoners will be removed to Salisbury, N. C., under charge of the
Ambulance Corps |
|
Richmond
Whig |
1/22/1864; the departure of Castle
Thunder prisoners was put off for a day due to a railroad "hitch." Notes
that one of the prisoners got out of his ball and chain |
|
VHS 1/23/1864 |
1/23/1864; Letter from Jno. L. Ligon, Clerk at
Castle Thunder, writing on behalf of a man whom Ligon was accosted by and
later shot. Ligon believes the man accosted him because the man thought that
Ligon was a Yankee deserter. Ligon appeals for his immediate discharge from
prison |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VI, p. 917 |
2/4/1864; Butler requests an
exchange |
|
Official Records, Ser. I, Vol. XXXIII, p. 144 |
2/8/1864; mentioned |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
2/11/1864; good description of the
"great escape" from Libby Prison. Castle Thunder mentioned. |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
2/15/1864; acquittal of Capt.
Alexander |
|
Richmond
Whig |
2/16/1864; G. W. Alexander has been
acquitted by the board of inquiry that looked into his conduct at Castle
Thunder |
|
VHS 2/20/1864 |
2/20/1864; Surgeon at GH#9 writes on behalf of
a convalescent soldier from Castle Thunder who claims to be "guiltless of
any crime" and seeks a hearing in order to go home |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
2/23/1864; more escapees from
prison across street from Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
2/24/1864; description of the fire
and explosion of the Confederate Coffee factory on Cary and 17th |
|
Richmond
Whig |
2/25/1864; man committed to Castle
Thunder for piloting Averill on his raid |
|
Richmond
Whig |
2/26/1864; robbery of a hogshead of
tobacco at the factory of David C. Mayo, corner 19th and Cary |
|
Richmond
Whig |
2/27/1864; list of Castle Thunder
(7) and Libby Prison (8) inmates sent off by special exchange, including a
woman found in men's clothes on Belle Isle, and a correspondent of the New
York Herald |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/1/1864; three men, who were caught
while attempting to go north, are taken to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Daily Whig |
3/2/1864; detective killed by
accident at Castle Thunder; mentions "prisoners in the building across the
street..." |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
3/2/1864; detective killed at
"deserters' prison" opposite Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/3/1864; detective mistakenly
shot at Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/3/1864; six negroes, recaptured
from the Yankees, are taken to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/3/1864; Detective Wooters, shot
accidentally at Castle Thunder, died yesterday |
|
Official Records, Ser. I, Vol. LI/2, p. 832 |
3/9/1864; Yankee raider placed in
Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/9/1864; detective Cashmeyer
arrested for treason on a flag of truce boat while escorting Yankee prisoner
and put in Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/10/1864; female spy taken to
Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/10/1864; more details on Detective
Cashmeyer's case - he was not behaving treasonously, just stupidly. |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/11/1864; more on Cashmeyer's case |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/12/1864; Detective Cashmeyer is
released from Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/14/1864; Cashemeyer was NOT
released from Castle Thunder, and will be court-martialed |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/15/1864; Cashmeyer has been
released from Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/16/1864; soldier dies in Castle
Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/17/1864; two Spotsylvania
men are taken to Castle Thunder under charge of piloting Kilpatrick on the
recent raid |
|
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
Whig |
3/29/1864; Detective Cashmeyer has
been reinstated, and a Detective who was in the Penitentiary for shooting a
woman has been pardoned by the Governor |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VI, pp. 1086-87 |
3/29-31/1864; Unionists captured by
Gen. Imboden in the Shenendoah Valley are sent to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/5/1864; Mr. Thomas W. Doswell has
been appointed Asst. Provost Marshal, succeeding G. W. Alexander |
|
Richmond Sentinel |
4/9/1864; notes on three new
soldiers confined in Castle Thunder with details of their transgressions |
|
Richmond
Daily Whig |
4/14/1864; Castle Thunder items |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/14/1864; Castle Thunder items |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/22/1864; Dr. Mary Walker, captured
in the west, arrives in Richmond (in male attire) and conveyed to Castle
Thunder, Libby having no female accommodations |
|
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 |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/22/1864; Dr. Mary Walker arrives
in Richmond, and is taken to Castle Thunder. She is "about thirty years old
and quite ugly" |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/28/1864; 31 Yankee deserters in
Castle Thunder say they want to go back to the North, and are moved to the
Libby Prison |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/28/1864; 31 Yankee deserters
desire to be considered prisoners of war and are taken from Castle Thunder
to Libby Prison |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/2/1864; Dr. Mary Walker's
appearance in Richmond causes quite an excitement - she is taken to Gen.
Winder's office, then to Castle Thunder. |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/2/1864; Mary Walker is marched
from Castle Thunder to Gen. Winder's office, still in male attire, and
creates quite a stir |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/7/1864; 78 prisoners at Castle
Thunder sent to Salisbury, NC |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/16/1864; "The Winder Guards," a
unit made up of prisoners from Castle Thunder are on duty "at the front" |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/17/1864; foreigners who refuse
to do military duty are confined in Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/21/1864; 300 prisoners in Castle
Thunder, from the "Winder Legion" will be released |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
5/23/1864; Castle Thunder
admittances; several Libby guards confined |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/26/1864; Castle Thunder
admittances |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/28/1864; The Winder Legion, a
unit comprised of prisoners from Castle Thunder, has acquitted itself well
in the field; Davis granted them amnesty, and they are now seeking permanent
status |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/30/1864; AAG for Gen. Bragg
inspects Libby Prison and Castle Thunder and finds them pleasing |
|
Official Records, Ser. I, Vol. XXXVI/3, p. 415 |
5/31/1864; Butler passes on a rumor
that the mayor of Richmond had been confined in Castle Thunder. |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/31/1864; Confederate deserter
(4th VA Cav, Co. A) found amongst the prisoners at Libby Prison and taken to
Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/31/1864; man from Lynchburg taken
to Castle Thunder, charged with being a spy |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/2/1864; 10 prisoners released
from Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/4/1864; new arrivals at Castle
Thunder, including one supposedly insane man |
|
Official Records, Ser. I, Vol. XXXVI/3, p. 582 |
6/4/1864; Comments on Butler's
previous dispatch |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VII, pp. 204-205 |
6/6/1864; report on conditions at
Castle Thunder |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VII, pp. 205-207 |
6/6/1864; inspection report for week
ending 5/31/1864 of Castle Thunder and Libby Prison. |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/9/1864; persons shirking duty
are sent to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
6/10/1864; Dr. Mary Walker,
prisoner in Castle Thunder, wants to go home |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
6/13/1864; ex-prisoner at Castle
Thunder, member of the Arsenal Battalion, deserts to enemy near Bottom's
Bridge |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/15/1864; details of three new
inmates at Castle Thunder |
|
New York Times |
6/16/1864; extract of
letter from Dr. Mary Walker in Castle Thunder. Notes that she has a clean
bed, kind officers, and a (named) roommate. |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/17/1864; describes the beneficial
use of tobacco warehouses as prisons and hospitals to the Confederacy |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/17/1864; few new prisoners at
Castle Thunder, list of those who have been admitted recently |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/17/1864; two soldiers are taken to
Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/17/1864; soldier from Cutts'
artillery committed to Castle Thunder for stabbing a member of his company |
| Richmond
Daily Whig |
6/22/1864; Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/23/1864; Confederate deserter
(former Lt. Col. of 18th TN) is found amongst Yankees at Libby Prison and
taken to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/29/1864; description of boxing
match at Castle Thunder and reception of new prisoners |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/29/1864; Details of the
imprisonment of Dr. Mary Walker in Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/30/1864; notes that no money is
taken from the prisoners at Castle Thunder - the quartermaster keeps it for
them |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/1/1864; Sutler's post at Castle
Thunder has been abolished |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/5/1864; Richmond prisons, except
Castle Thunder and Belle Isle, are nearly empty |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/6/1864; attempted escape from
"Palmer's building, opposite Castle Thunder" |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/6/1864; notes on federal
deserters in Castle Thunder; 68 federal deserters moved from Castle Thunder
to Libby Prison |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/9/1864; five workmen at Tredegar
are captured while attempting to escape to the Yankees and are put in Castle
Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/9/1864; five operatives at the
Tredegar Iron Works are caught while attempting to go over to the Yankees
and are taken to Castle Thunder |
|
Official Records, Ser. I, Vol. XL/3, p. 765 |
7/11/1864; Gen Ewell complains
about Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/15/1864; "particular class" of
prisoner from Castle Thunder will be sent to Salisbury, NC |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/19/1864; department at Castle
Thunder is reserved for "depraved
and abandoned women" |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/20/1864; female spy is received at
Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/20/1864; attractive female spy is
committed to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/26/1864; Dr. Mary Walker is taken
to Gen. Gardner's office, desiring to be released |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/26/1864; notes on Dr. Mary Walker
parading the streets, on the way to Gen. Gardner's office seeking a parole.
Also remarks on her lack of good looks and elicit correspondence while here |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/29/1864; Detective Boyd has been
thrown in Castle Thunder for trying to bribe another detective not to
mention that he had seen a prominent member of the treasury department go
into a faro bank [probably R. C. Elmore] |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/30/1864; a Castle Thunder escapee
and a Yankee deserter are both committed to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
8/4/1864; 53 prisoners at Castle
Thunder have been sent to Salisbury, N. C. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/10/1864; wounded negroes from
Burnside's Corps sent to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/12/1864; member of the Crenshaw
battery committed to Castle Thunder for "desertion, robbery and attempting
to shoot some one" |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VII, pp. 610-611 |
8/18/1864; complaint of yankee
(Doran) about his lengthy imprisonment without charge. |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/22/1864; alleged spy from the
Maryland line and a free negro are committed to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/22/1864; Maryland soldier and free
negro committed to Castle Thunder, the latter on charge of piloting Hunter
in Amherst county, and the former for being a spy |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/26/1864; 80 negro POWs, taken at
the Battle of the Crater, are brought to Castle Thunder |
|
Official Records, Ser. I, Vol. XLII/2, p. 629 |
9/1/1864; 19th Regt., Va. Militia
is doing guard duty at Libby, Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
9/9/1864; Man sent to Castle
Thunder for being a spy and recruiting negroes for federal service |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
9/10/1864; former keeper of "the
Rebel House," under the Exchange Hotel and a free negro escape from Castle
Thunder and are recaptured |
|
Richmond
Whig |
9/10/1864; two Castle Thunder
escapees caught |
|
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
Sentinel |
10/5/1864; member of 3rd S.C.
knifes a patient at Stuart Hospital and sent to Castle Thunder |
|
Official Records, Ser. I, Vol. XLII/3, p. 119 |
10/8/1864; prisoners from Castle
Thunder have been put into the Richmond defenses in front of Butler |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VII, pp. 987-988 |
10/14/1864; Turner reports on negro
soldiers at Libby Prison and Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/25/1864; six Irish conscripts
arrested while attempting to get to Yankee lines and put in Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/25/1864; a deserter from the 28th
Alabama is arrested while in Yankee uniform and put in Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
10/26/1864;
two men caught trying to "cut their way out"
of Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/31/1864; two females who had been
serving for two years under Gen. Early were found out and put in Castle
Thunder; details on two other prisoners: one male slave and one white female |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/31/1864; man attempts an escape
while being taken to Castle Thunder and is shot and killed |
|
Richmond
Whig |
10/31/1864;
two women, masquerading as soldiers, brought
to Castle Thunder. They had served with General Early for two years |
|
Richmond
Whig |
10/31/1864;
female spy from Isle of Wight is brought to
Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
10/31/1864;
man shot and killed while trying to escape
from the guards who were taking him to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/1/1864; details on the
killing of the soldier who tried to escape while being taken to Castle
Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/1/1864; deserter taken
from Castle Thunder and shot in the presence of Fields' Division. He was
from the 4th Alabama and had been recaptured in Yankee uniform |
|
Official Records, Ser. I, Vol. XLII/3, pp. 1202-1203 |
11/5/1864; "Six or seven of the
Castle Thunder battalion have deserted to the enemy" |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/10/1864; details on
three recent Castle Thunder inmates |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/11/1864; detective
Caphart, "one of the detectives attached to the Castle Thunder prison"
died yesterday |
|
Richmond
Whig |
11/11/1864;
Detective Caphart, "one of the police of
Castle Thunder," dies |
|
Official Records, Ser. I, Vol. XLII/3, pp. 608-609 |
11/12/1864; mentioned; negro US
soldiers used for menial labor |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/12/1864; NC woman
committed to Castle Thunder for being a suspicious character |
|
Richmond
Whig |
11/12/1864;
good-looking woman put in Castle Thunder as
a "suspicious character" |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/14/1864; three workers
from Tredegar arrested while attempting to go over to the enemy and are
put in Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
11/14/1864; employees of Tredegar
Iron Works jailed for desertion |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/21/1864; Three people
(one of whom was a Tredegar worker) arrested on Williamsburg road for
attempting to go to the enemy. They said they were going to visit friends at
Chaffin's Bluff |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/21/1864; one of the
"street guards" who checks papers was arrested and sent to Castle
Thunder for letting a person escape |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
12/21/1864; details on
two new Castle Thunder inmates; one a "Yankee deserter" who is really a
soldier from the 21st Miss., and the other a patient at Jackson Hospital
who is charged with larceny |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VII, pp. 1268-1269 |
12/24/1864; report on certain
prisoners |
|
Official Records, Ser. I, Vol. XLVI/2, p. 171 |
1/18/1865; Union intelligence
report; Colonel Fry is being held in poor conditions |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VIII, pp. 93-94 |
1/19/1865; Chaplain of Camp Lee and
Carrington write to Sec. of War regarding conditions at Castle Thunder and
Libby. |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VIII, p. 236 |
2/16/1865; U. S. Grant writes about
citizens held as hostages |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/3/1865; attendant at the Libby
Prison hospital is caught at the theater with one of the POWs from the
prison hospital. He is sent to Castle Thunder and the POW is sent back to
Libby. |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VIII, p. 368 |
3/8/1865; Ould says a list has been
made of prisoners in order to determine which are prisoners of war. |
|
Official Records, Ser. I, Vol. XLVI/2, p. 905 |
3/9/1865; report of a Confederate
deserter, recently a prisoner at Castle Thunder |
|
Official Records, Ser. I, Vol. XLVI/3, p. 79 |
3/22/1865; report from "our agent
in Richmond," has items on Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/30/1865; slave put in Castle
Thunder for helping soldiers desert |
|
Guard Report |
4/2/1865; report of guard mounted
at Castle Thunder and Mayo's Bridge by 1st VA reserves |
|
Official Records, Ser. I, Vol. XLVI/3, p. 574-575 |
4/5/1865; Dana's report on the
capture of Richmond |
|
New York
Herald |
4/6/1865; Details on the Federal occupation of
Richmond - notes that the furniture in the White House of the Confederacy
was left behind, and that Tredegar survived the fire. Libby Prison and
Castle Thunder are now full of Confederate prisoners |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/6/1865; account of the escape of
two unionists from Castle Thunder on evacuation night |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/10/1865; Confederate prisoners
housed in Libby, civilians in Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/12/1865; account of the escape of
a Castle Thunder prisoner on evacuation night and his subsequent work for
the US authorities |
|
New York
Herald |
4/13/1865; excellent letter from Richmond
describing the Federal occupation of Richmond, mentions Tredegar, former
slaves, Rocketts, former rebel hospitals (Chimborazo, Jackson, Stuart) - All
patients now at Jackson, Stuart Hospital is now a US Post Hospital.
Dahlgren's body found and is being returned to Washington. Castle Thunder
and Libby Prison are now holding Confederates. Also notes veneration of
Robert E. Lee in Richmond |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/18/1865; former Castle Thunder
officials turn themselves in |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/19/1865; former Castle Thunder
officials NOT confined in Libby, but released on their parole |
|
New York Times |
4/20/1865; the key to
Castle Thunder is in New York and will be auctioned for charity |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/1/1865; person in the North
claims to have the key to Castle Thunder, but this cannot be the main key as
Castle Thunder is still used as a prison |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/1/1865; What happened to "the big
black dog" (Hero) who used to guard Castle Thunder? |
|
Official Records, Ser. I, Vol. XLVI/3, p. 1084 |
5/4/1865; Union armies marching
through Richmond are ordered to pass by Castle Thunder and Libby Prison |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/9/1865; Libby Prison and Castle
Thunder have new signs |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/16/1865; Isaac Carrington, former
CS Provost Marshal of Richmond, has been put in Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/19/1865; Hero, the dog formerly
used as a guard dog at Castle Thunder has been shipped North |
|
Dedham
Gazette |
5/20/1865; "Libby Prison Now and
Then"- notes how Libby Prison has changed, and offers a general history.
Notes that Libby Prison and Castle Thunder are now run by two Captains from
the 24th Mass. |
|
New York Times |
5/24/1865; The guard-dog of Castle Thunder is in New York City now – a huge,
black, “Russian blood-hound.” Notes that G. W. Alexander formerly made money
off him by having him fight bears. |
|
Official Records, Ser. I, Vol. XLVII/1, p. 605 |
5/27/1865; report of the march
through Richmond |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/31/1865; very few prisoners are
left in Libby or Castle Thunder |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VIII, pp. 764-767 |
10/12/1865; post-war account of
conditions at Libby Prison, Castle Godwin and other prisons during the war. |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VIII, p. 783 |
11/3/1865; letter to Stanton names
Alexander and Turner as being guilty of cruelty to prisoners. |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VIII, pp. 815-816 |
11/23/1865; testimony from one of
Winder's policemen - Libby & Castle Thunder mentioned. |
|
Official Records, Ser. I, Vol. XLVI/1, p. 1292-1295 |
12/20/1865; Ewell's report on the
fall of Richmond and the retreat to Appomattox |
|
Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VIII, pp. 883-885 |
2/1866; deposition regarding the
supposed plot to kill Abraham Lincoln. Castle Thunder mentioned. |
|
Southern Opinion |
11/23/1867; “Castle Thunder in Bellum Days;” gives an outstanding account of
Castle Thunder, prominent prisoners (including Mary Walker) and its’ staff
(including physical descriptions); mentions Oakwood Cemetery, Castle Godwin |
|
New York Times |
9/6/1879; Castle Thunder
has burned down, and brief history of the building |
|
R. A. Brock notes |
1880; notes on various Richmond
sights and their current condition - mentions Libby Prison, Castle Godwin,
Castle Thunder (recently destroyed by fire), Robertson Hospital (great
physical description), Drewry's Bluff, and the Union Hotel (now used to
train missionaries) |
|
Southern Historical
Society Papers 11 (1883), pp. 83-92. |
1883; Burrows, J. L. "Recollections
of Libby Prison." Mentions
Mary Walker, Captain Gibbs being commandant of Castle Thunder, and the big
dog who guarded the prison. Burrows says that this dog was a very gentle
animal, contrary to popular opinion. |
|
National Tribune |
9/13/1883; description of prison
life at Castle Thunder and "Royster House" (GH#20) |
|
New York
Times |
3/1/1891; part four of serialized
account of life in Libby. Notes that 1864 began poorly - the Confederates
cut off supplies from the North in order to compel the US Government to
resume exchanges; author went to Belle Isle to help distribute last batch of
supplies; mentions Castle Thunder; he was glad to be in Libby rather than
Belle Isle - notes on the "dog-slaying incident" and confirms it. Further
notes the presence of negroes on Belle Isle and their negative treatment by
their fellow prisoners. Describes Gen. J. H. Morgan's visit to Libby and
begins description of the Libby tunnel and says he was one of the diggers.
|
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/30/1894; great description of Richmond for the Confederate reunion,
focusing on how much has changed since the war |
|
Baltimore
Sun |
2/22/1895; G. W. Alexander
obituary, describes in great detail his early service in the Confederacy,
imprisonment and escape from Fort McHenry, and service in Richmond |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
3/3/1895; G. W. Alexander obituary,
excellent and lengthy description of his wartime service and Castle Thunder
details, with engraving of Alexander |
|
National
Tribune |
10/4/1900; "The Fall of Richmond"
Part two of Hiram Peck's memoir. Describes Lincoln's visit to Richmond,
details of the evacuation fire, the reopening of the Richmond Theater, and
response to Lee's surrender in Richmond. Mentions Castle Thunder detectives
being locked in Libby, and gives a description of Hollywood Cemetery. |
|
National
Tribune |
10/30/1902; letter describes the
fire in Richmond threatening Libby Prison and Castle Thunder, and the author
broke open the door to let prisoners out. |
|
National
Tribune |
11/16/1905; account of a civilian's
stay in Castle Thunder in 1862. Gives a good physical description of the
prison, and describes meeting Timothy Webster while there |
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VHS no date |
no date; Union prisoner in "Room No. 10" of
Castle Thunder requests to be moved to Libby Prison, as he considers himself
a POW |
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G. W. Alexander CSR |
no date; summary of George W.
Alexander's Confederate Service |
