|
Richmond
Enquirer |
1/1/1861; advertisement for a slave dealer
underneath the St. Charles Hotel |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
1/4/1861; notice of improvements at Tredegar
Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
1/8/1861; Governor Letcher extols the virtues
of VMI and its utility to the State |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
1/19/1861; opening notice of the Spotswood
Hotel |
|
New York
Herald |
1/21/1861; 1000 kegs of powder from Tredegar
arrive at Charleston |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
2/8/1861; detailed account of Governor
Letcher's inspection visit to the Armory and Tredegar |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
3/11/1861;
partnership of Libby and Burton is dissolved – Libby and Son to take its’
place at 20th and Cary. |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
3/23/1861; ad for commission merchants Bacon &
Baskervill (future GH#7) |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
3/28/1861; ad for the summer schedule of
classes at the Medical College - McCaw and Gibson are listed as professors;
students will have access to patients at Bellevue Hospital and Alms House
free of charge |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/1/1861; Spotswood Hotel has been
opened |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/8/1861; Franklin & Co has
received a large collection of stereo views and viewers |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/15/1861; Dr. Charles Bell Gibson
(future surgeon of GH#1) has been appointed Surgeon General of Virginia
forces |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/15/1861; Catesby Jones and Capt.
Pegram are at the Exchange Hotel; M. F. Maury and R. M. T. Hunter are at the
Spotswood |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/15/1861; Virginia Rifles are
stationed at the "old U. S. Hotel" (later GH#10) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/15/1861; Mechanics' Institute was
"splendidly illuminated" last night |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/15/1861; account of the response
in Richmond to the fall of Fort Sumter; extensive celebration and
flag-raising at the Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
4/15/1861; excellent description of the
reaction in Richmond to the news of the fall of Ft. Sumter - description of
parade to Tredegar Iron Works and Capitol Square - notes disappointed
reaction to Letcher's remarks, and the raising and subsequent lowering of
the Confederate flag on the Capitol roof |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/16/1861; Ad (including rates) for
Bellevue Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/16/1861; Ad (including rates) for
Main Street Hospital for slaves |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/17/1861; slave of Elizabeth Van
Lew has been arrested for having a pass out of date |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/20/1861; Richmond Howitzers have
moved into their new quarters under the Spotswood Hotel |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/22/1861; account of the
excitement caused by the erroneous rumor that a Federal gunboat was
ascending the James River. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/23/1861; description of the
arrival of Col. Robert E. Lee into Richmond and speech from the Spotswood
Hotel |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/23/1861; Alexander Stephens has
arrived in Richmond to discuss the entry of Virginia into the Confederacy;
he is staying at the Exchange Hotel |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/23/1861; train has left the
Fredericksburg depot to convey the VMI cadets to Richmond |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/23/1861; construction on the city
railway continues |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/23/1861; Franklin Stearns, a
wealthy Unionist, donates $500 to Varina Troop |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/24/1861; VMI cadets have arrived
in Richmond and are quartered at the Fair Grounds (Camp Lee) and parade for
the Governor on Capitol Square |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/24/1861; ladies of Church and
Union Hills will meet today at Springfield Hall (future GH#26) to make
bandages |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/24/1861; half dozen companies are
encamped at the Fair Grounds - more expected today |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/24/1861; old U. S. Customs House
is now being used as a stopping place for troops |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/24/1861; F. H. Smith, Judge
Allen, and M. F. Maury are appointed military advisors for the Governor |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/24/1861; Co. K, 1st Virginia
Inf., is headquartered in the old U. S. Hotel (later GH#10) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/24/1861; all companies arriving
in Richmond will immediately proceed to the Hermitage Fair Grounds (Camp
Lee) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/24/1861; exempted citizens of
Henrico will meet at Howard's Grove to provide for city defense |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/26/1861; VMI cadets are drilling
recruits at the Fair Grounds (Camp Lee) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/26/1861; Tredegar Iron Works
Battalion elects officers |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/26/1861; want ad for a drummer
for the 1st South Carolina, stationed at the "New Poor House Building"
(future GH#1) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/26/1861; Ad for Vannerson's
Photographic Gallery |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/27/1861; order to connect the
railroads in Richmond and Petersburg |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
4/27/1861; list of troops at the new fair
grounds (Camp Lee); Col. Gilham is in command, and VMI cadets present |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
4/27/1861; all VMI graduates and ex-cadets can
find employment at the Camp of Instruction (Camp Lee) |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
4/27/1861; all volunteer companies will proceed
at once to the Hermitage Fair Grounds (Camp Lee) |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/27/1861; p. 3, Tredegar Iron
Works Battalion elects officers |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/30/1861; provisions needed at
Camp Lee hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/2/1861; the city railroad has been advanced
as far as the American hotel and is progressing nicely |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/2/1861; plans are being made to connect the
RF&P and Richmond & Petersburg RRs through Richmond, and well as connections
through Petersburg |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/3/1861; St. Francis de Sales
Hospital is ready to accept patients |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
5/3/1861; list of southern cadets who have left
West Point, as well as those who refused to take the oath and resigned.
Pelham and T. P. Turner are amongst the number |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
5/3/1861; prospective VMI cadets can apply to
the acting superintendent in Richmond - notes that the academic schedule has
been suspended, and cadets thus admitted will be trained free of charge
until the corps returns to Lexington |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/4/1861; Rev. Francis Boggs, the
Chaplain at Camp Lee, has been elected Captain in the 1st VA Inf. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/4/1861; Richmond Home Guard meets
nightly near Springfield Hall (later GH#26) to drill |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/8/1861; Ad for Ree's photographic
gallery |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/8/1861; recruiting rendezvous for
Navy is at the warehouse of Libby & Son |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/9/1861; fire burns down building
adjacent to Libby & Son's ship chandlery (later Libby Prison), which is
saved by great exertions by firemen |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/10/1861; attempt to burn down
Libby & Son's warehouse (later Libby Prison) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/10/1861; Capt. J.E.B. Stuart has
arrived in Richmond after resigning his commission |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/10/1861; Sailors are being
recruited at the "Naval Rendezvous" which is in Libby & Son's warehouse
(later Libby Prison) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/10/1861; J. B. McCaw (later
Surgeon in Charge at Chimborazo Hospital) amongst others is raising a
company of mounted rifles |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/10/1861; advertisement for Rees'
photographic gallery |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/10/1861; volunteer company is
being raised at Springfield Hall (later General Hospital #26) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/11/1861; editorial concerning the
removal of the Confederate Capital to Richmond; very positive |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/11/1861; editorial on which song
should be the new Confederate National Anthem; very negative towards "Dixie" |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/11/1861; building adjacent to
Libby & Son's warehouse is still burning |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/15/1861; Howard's Grove use and
description |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
5/15/1861; destructive fire at 20th and Cary
streets; Libby & Son building narrowly escapes |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/16/1861; Richmond Howitzers have
moved from Howard's Grove to Chimborazo Hill |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/18/1861; Hampden Artillery is
stationed at the Baptist College (Richmond College, future Louisiana
Hospital) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/18/1861; Louisiana volunteers,
stationed at Howard's Grove, are having difficulties with their laundresses |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/20/1861; two attempts to destroy
the Tredegar Iron Works by fire |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/20/1861; area near the old United
States Hotel (later GH#10) is the scene of bloody fights and drunken revelry |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/21/1861; 1st North Carolina
regiment has arrived in Richmond, and is camped at Howard's Grove |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/21/1861; religious services are
held at Camp Lee, administered by Dr. Hoge and Dr. Duncan |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/21/1861; description of the
offices in the Customs House, and who occupies them |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/21/1861; 1st Tennessee Regiment
is camped southeast of Howard's Grove, near the "Black Pond" |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/21/1861; C. S. Quartermaster
warehouses are on Pearl Street (now 14th) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/22/1861; incorrect threat of fire
to the Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/22/1861; Camp of Instruction
(Camp Lee) described. VMI cadets praised. |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/22/1861, p. 3; Richmond
Howitzers camped on Chimborazo hill, with new military road "leading from
the plateau," along the declivity, to the encampment at Rocketts. Artillery
posted atop the hill. |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/23/1861, p. 3; Howard's Grove
described in pre-hospital days. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/25/1861; house burns down
"opposite Hardgrove's factory" |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/27/1861; 2nd North Carolina
regiment has been camped at Howard's Grove |
| Richmond
Enquirer |
5/28/1861; "Practical Hints for
Volunteers - Military Surgery and Treatment of the Wounded" |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/29/1861; ladies of the Monumental
Church are doing work for the soldiers in the Mechanics' Institute |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/29/1861; Richmond Home Artillery
will meet tonight at the Mechanics' Institute |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/29/1861; State authorities are
building a new stables at the corner of Broad and 11th |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/30/1861; great description of the
arrival of President Jefferson Davis in Richmond and the celebration in the
city as he is escorted to Spotswood Hotel; later he reviewed the troops at
Camp Lee |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
5/31/1861; notes on the present state of
affairs at VMI, and advertises for new cadets - gives a table of tuition and
fees |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/1/1861; Drill room of Co. G has
been converted into a hospital, 50 patients there now, mostly from Tennessee |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/1/1861; Description of the
arrival of Gen. Beauregard at the Spotswood Hotel |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/1/1861; appeal for more workers
on the city defenses |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/3/1861; Customs house is being
readied for its occupancy by the Confederate Government |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/5/1861; Washington Artillery of
New Orleans has arrived in Richmond and is camping at Howard's Grove |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/5/1861; Vicksburg Southrons
arrive and parade in Capitol Square; they are then quartered at the
Columbian Hotel |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/5/1861; Negroes are doing good
work on the fortifications at Marion Hill (Battery #2) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/7/1861; description of the
explosion at the house of a chemist who was mixing fulminating powder;
injured parties are at St. Francis de Sales Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/7/1861; Confederate Patent Office
has been established at Goddin's Hall |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/7/1861; city laborers are at work
on the defenses at Marion Hill (Battery #2) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/10/1861; women who want to be
nurses should apply to Mrs. A. F. Hopkins |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/10/1861; Mechanics' Institute is
being cleared out; the War Department and Patent Office will soon have their
offices here |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/10/1861; Dr. Bolton of Bellevue
Hospital thanks the ladies of Church Hill for their help with the sick
soldiers |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/10/1861; Tredegar Iron Works
needs timber to build large building (probably the new gun foundry) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/10/1861; Tredegar Iron Works
needs carriage wheels |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/10/1861; Tredegar Iron Works
needs Wheelwrights and Blacksmiths |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/12/1861; ladies of Church and
Union Hills are nursing sick soldiers at Co. G Hall (later GH#27) and
Springfield Hall (later GH#26) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/13/1861; four prisoners of war
arrive in Richmond |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/13/1861; man brought in to
Mayor's court for allegedly keeping his bar open past ten o'clock |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
6/13/1861; "The Encampments,"
mentions Howard's Grove and the troops stationed there. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/15/1861; a member of the New
Orleans Zouaves gets married at the St. Charles Hotel (later GH#8) |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
6/15/1861; Prisoners captured at Big Bethel are
quartered at the Customs House - Richmonders flock to see the captured
Yankees |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
6/18/1861; Classified notice that
Surgeon A. Y. P. Garnett (surgeon at Robertson Hosp.) has come to Richmond. |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
6/19/1861; Notes that the St. Francis de Sales
Hospital has been recently established, and is treating Confederate soldiers
- laudatory of the Catholic Church |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/20/1861; New Orleans Washington
Artillery serenades President Davis at the Spotswood Hotel |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/20/1861; row of houses behind the
Exchange Hotel are occupied by parties of a "dubious
and uncertain character" |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/22/1861; City officials are
fitting up the Brockenbrough mansion for occupancy by President Davis |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/22/1861; the Henry Clay statue on
Capitol Square has become discolored by excessive handling |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/25/1861; Prisoner of war and a
civilian spy are brought to Richmond and confined in "the large white
building on the hill leading to Hollywood Cemetery" [probably VA
Penitentiary] |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/25/1861; names of U. S. prisoners
of war now confined in Richmond |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/25/1861; New Orleans Washington
Artillery leaves Richmond for Manassas |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/25/1861; prisoners arrive in
Richmond; the factory of Geo. Harwood (later GH#24) is being fitted up as a
prison depot |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/25/1861; slave of J. B. Royster
is arrested and punished for masquerading as a soldier |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/25/1861; Col. Gilham of VMI,
currently commandant of Camp of Instruction, is raising an infantry regiment |
| Richmond
Examiner |
6/26/1861; cholera victim at Camp
Lee buried at Shockoe Cemetery |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/27/1861; advertisement that the
warehouse of L. Libby & Son is available for storage - says it could store
20,000 bushels of wheat or corn |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/27/1861; commencement exercises
for the Richmond Female Institute will be held tomorrow |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/28/1861; editorial commending the
efforts of Mrs. Judge Hopkins and other ladies providing nursing care |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/29/1861; men of Church and Union
Hills will meet tonight at Company "G" Hall for the purposes of organizing
for home defense |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/1/1861; Good description of
Mason's Hall Hospital (GH#26) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/1/1861; description of the commencement exercises at the Richmond Female
Institute (future GH#4) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/1/1861; company of Texas Rangers are camped at Howard's Grove |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/1/1861; member of the Tredegar Battalion is wounded by a bursting gun |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/1/1861; flowery description of Hollywood Cemetery; should be "ornament of
the city." |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/1/1861; horse strays from the camp of The Washington Artillery, camped
"near Howard's Grove" |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/1/1861; ad for Rees' photographic gallery |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/1/1861; two POWs arrive and are taken to the prison depot (Ligon's prison) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/1/1861; Edmund Ruffin and others are staying at the Exchange Hotel |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/2/1861; description of "Mason's Hall," (GH#26) notes that it was opened 4
weeks ago for Tennesseans. Notes that more Tennesseans are at Company G Hall
and Temperance Hall. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/2/1861; prison depot is located two blocks from the Henrico Court House,
and contains 75-100 prisoners |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/2/1861; Ellis' Battalion is
meeting at Temperance Hall (future GH#26) on Church Hill |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/2/1861; description of fire at
the Virginia State Penitentiary |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/2/1861; 5th North Carolina
Regiment arrives in Richmond and camps near the York River RR depot |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/2/1861; more on the wounding of a
member of the Tredegar Battalion by a bursting gun |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
7/2/1861; Harwood's Factory has
been fitted up for a prison. |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
7/2/1861; brief notice of a fire at the
Virginia Penitentiary |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/2/1861; Letter from the Richmond
Zouaves at Camp Lee |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/2/1861; laborers needed for the
Richmond defenses |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/2/1861; fire at the State
Penitentiary |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/3/1861; description of the role
of the Garde Lafayette in putting out the fire at the Penitentiary |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/3/1861; Maryland Volunteers will
be presented with a new flag at Camp Lee; mentions J. H. Winder presiding
over the ceremonies |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/3/1861; Dr. Ryland, of Richmond
College (future Louisiana Hospital), is publishing and working on behalf of
the volunteers in the city |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/3/1861; Henrico Liberty Guard
will meet at Company G hall |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/3/1861; Wood Turners and Pattern
Makers are needed at the Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/3/1861; Artillery Drivers needed
for the Washington Artillery at "Camp Beauregard, near Howard's Grove" |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
7/3/1861; damage at the Penitentiary due to
fire is estimated at $50,000 |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/4/1861; statistics of tobacco
warehouses in Richmond, including Seabrook's (future GH#9) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/4/1861; damage from fire at
Penitentiary less than feared |
|
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
Whig |
7/4/1861; lamentation regarding the
use of the new city railroad |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/5/1861; Public guard makes its
annual 4th of July parade on Capitol Square |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/5/1861; Tredegar Battalion
(numbering 360) parades through the streets |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/5/1861; Thomas Artillery
stationed at "Camp Chimborazo," fired July 4 salute. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/5/1861; George Watt finds a
little negro girl "near the new fair grounds" |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/5/1861; Thomas Artillery
stationed at "Camp Chimborazo," fired July 4 salute. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/6/1861; description of target
practice by the Tredegar Battalion after their parade |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/6/1861; Gov. Letcher appoints VMI
officers to the Provisional Army of Virginia |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/6/1861; officers for the Maryland
Zouaves are elected; G. W. Alexander is 1st Lieutenant (later Castle Thunder
commandant) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/6/1861; City Railroad is not
running because of lack of cars |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
7/6/1861; description of the celebration of the
4th of July in Richmond - Tredegar Battalion parades on Capitol Square,
along with the Thomas Artillery, Public Guard, and Washington Artillery |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
7/6/1861; Maryland volunteers receive a flag
from President Davis at Camp Lee |
|
Charleston Mercury |
7/8/1861; war news - describes that Fourth of
July parade of the Tredegar Battalion as well as notes on the political
situation |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/8/1861; word of caution about
conditions at the cartridge making facility at Thomas's Factory |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/8/1861; damage at Penitentiary is
less than earlier supposed |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/8/1861; West & Johnston's has
published 10,000 copies of Gilham's manual |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/8/1861; Washington Artillery has
left Richmond |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/9/1861; description of the
"cartridge factory", later the C. S. Arsenal, and cautions regarding safety |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/9/1861; boys near Jackson and 5th
streets are engaging in being "evil disposed boys" |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/10/1861; J. B. McCaw is
"Consulting Physician" for the Virginia Life Insurance Company |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/10/1861; military school has been
set up at UVA - commanded by VMI graduate |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/10/1861; notes on one of the
speeches at the commencement at the Richmond Female Institute |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/10/1861; ad from Co. A,
Tredegar Battalion expressing thanks to various persons |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/10/1861; report of a collision on
the Virginia Central and R. F. & P. RRs |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/10/1861; Dr. Hoge, chaplain at
Camp Lee, has set up collection place for donations next to the R. F. & P.
depot |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
7/11/1861; Cannon made at Bellona Arsenal, and
lying on the basin bank, have been spiked by some "Yankee spy" |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/11/1861; soldiers have been
buried in an open field near the Alms House - advocates using Oakwood
Cemetery for soldier interments |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/11/1861; percussion caps will be
manufactured at Brown's Island |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/12/1861; huge flagpole will be
raised above the Custom House |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/12/1861; 18th street, between
Grace and Franklin, is being paved with granite |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/13/1861; description of cartridge
making in Thomas' factory, and refutation of the claim that care is not
taken there |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/15/1861; brief description of
"the hospital on 26th street;" probably Ross' factory |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/15/1861; description of the wild
reaction in Richmond when "live Yankees" pass through the town |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/16/1861; the Bloody Run Guard
will meet at Company G hall |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/16/1861; 15 recruits needed for
the Hampden Artillery at Camp Chimborazo |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/16/1861; POWs from Yorktown
arrive, and are taken to the prison depot; some are from the "scum of
Baltimore," and one a spy |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
7/16/1861; Soldier from camp at
Howard's Grove drowned in the James. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/17/1861; Hotel arrivals; Dr. Thom
and Thomas Clingman are at the Spotswood |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/17/1861; 5th North Carolina
arrives in Richmond and goes into camp near Howard's Grove |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/18/1861; some prisoners removed
from the Prison depot to parts unknown |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/18/1861; notes that negro workers
on the fortifications seem to happy to be aiding "their native state" |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/18/1861; Henrico Liberty Guard
will attend meetings at Company G Hall |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/19/1861; description of funeral
of Micajah Bates in Hollywood Cemetery |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/19/1861; two cows strayed from
George Watt |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/20/1861; brief description of the
"Temperance Hall Hospital"; probably Springfield Hall |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/20/1861; belief expressed that
there will be a large number of prisoners arriving soon; 21 brought in
yesterday |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/20/1861; belief expressed that
John H. Winder will be appointed commander of the 6th South Carolina
Regiment |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/20/1861; Sergeant from the
Richmond Zouaves returns to Richmond to fill up their ranks. They are
commanded by a graduate of VMI |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/22/1861; wounded Kentuckian is
taken to the hospital at the "new Alms House" (future GH#1) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/22/1861; 56 prisoners arrived
yesterday and were taken to the prison depot on Main street |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/22/1861; 370 women and girls are
employed making cartridges |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/23/1861; 4th company of Richmond
Howitzers, camped at the New Fair Grounds, need 30 men to bring them up to
full strength |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/23/1861; Captain of the
Washington Artillery is wounded and in Richmond in a private home; many
members of the Montgomery guard are in the Medical College hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/23/1861; report of the city
committee to deal with wounded from the Battle of First Manassas. Drs. McCaw
and Hancock (amongst others) are to go to Manassas, while Luther Libby and
George S. Palmer (amongst others) are on a committee to procure
accommodations. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/24/1861; description of the
arrival of the bodies of Generals Bartow and Bee in Richmond and conveyance
to the Capitol to lie in state |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/24/1861; anxiety in Richmond over
the slain at First Manassas; huge crowds assemble at the Central depot,
where "Gen." Davis (the President) arrives and addresses the crowd |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/24/1861; 631 prisoners arrive
from Manassas and are taken to the prison depot - six hundred more are
expected soon |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/24/1861; "Gen." (President) Davis
gives an inspirational speech from the Spotswood Hotel |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/24/1861; Dr. George R. C. Todd,
the brother-in-law of Abraham Lincoln, was acquitted of disloyalty |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/24/1861; Runaway slave from the
Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/24/1861; citizen's committee
designates St. Charles hotel for use as a hospital |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/24/1861; escape attempt at the
State Penitentiary |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/25/1861; trains arrive from
Manassas bearing wounded, who are taken to private homes for treatment;
500-600 POWs are set to arrive; the prison depot is already full; notes that
General Corcoran arrived in Richmond two days ago |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/25/1861; many sick and wounded
are arriving in Richmond and put in private homes for treatment - notes that
they suffer "like heroes"; Committee for their reception is constantly at
work |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/25/1861; wounded POWs of
Ellsworth's Zouaves are taken to the Alms House for treatment - expresses
belief that these men are a very "hard set," and "villains of a low degree,"
and don't deserve any kindness |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/25/1861; bodies of Bartow, Bee,
and Johnston were escorted from the Capitol to the Petersburg depot for
transportation South |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/25/1861; wounded soldiers and
Yankee prisoners are arriving in Richmond |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/26/1861; 17 Union surgeons are
POWs; one is the son of a big New York tobacco merchant and is in Howard's
factory |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/26/1861; "Prison depot," at
corner of Main and 25th street is being visited by curious Richmonders |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/26/1861; new private hospital in
schoolhouse at corner of 10th and Clay streets. |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/26/1861; soldier is attacked by
another soldier and dies at the Alms House |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/27/1861; brief description of the
hospital at Mason Hall Church; also description of the "Springfield
Temperance" hospital (future GH#26), in the same neighborhood; notes they
are both filling up |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/27/1861; ten wounded soldiers
taken to the alms house hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/27/1861; G. D. Harwood's (future
GH#22) warehouse is currently being used as a prison |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/27/1861; slave of Wm. Greanor was
arrested for throwing a rock |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/27/1861; list of wounded from First Manassas at the various private
locations around the city. Many in St. Charles Hotel and Springfield Hall |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/29/1861; letter describing poor
medical treatment at Camp Lee, and praise of the treatment provided by the
Richmond ladies |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
7/29/1861; servants needed at the St. Charles
Hotel, being used as a hospital, with 160 patients there now |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
7/29/1861; notice from Tredegar that all orders
will be paid in cash |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/29/1861; condemnation of two ladies, living on Church Hill, who are
attending the Yankee wounded [Elizabeth Van Lew and her mother] |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
7/30/1861; List of wounded soldiers and where sent; mostly private houses -
no organized hospitals yet. |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
7/30/1861;
City Alms House Hospital (Gen. Hos. #1) described. Used as a prison at this
time. |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/30/1861; additional
list of wounded from First Manassas at the various private locations around
the city. Many in St. Charles Hotel and Springfield Hall |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/31/1861; 78 wounded POWs brought
to Richmond, including a Richmonder in exile |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/31/1861; two deaths (at Mason's
Hall and Bellevue respectively) and burial at Hollywood cemetery |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/31/1861; Henrico Liberty Guard is
organizing at Company G Hall |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/31/1861; applications for
clothing for wounded or sick soldiers can be made at St. Charles Hospital
(future GH#8) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/31/1861; lists of patients in the
city are at the Intelligence Office at the St. Charles Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/31/1861; Dr. F. W. Hancock has
returned from Manassas, with reports on their needs; the Committee is still
working to provide for the wounded |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
7/31/1961; List of sick and wounded men in
Richmond can be found at the St. Charles Hospital |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/31/1861; account of a shooting
incident at Harwood's prison (future GH#24) |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/31/1861; wounded Yankees complain
about the General Hospital (GH#1) |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/31/1861; prisoner shot at for
talking out the windows of his prison |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/31/1861; list of wounded soldiers
in private houses can be seen at the St. Charles Hotel (GH#8) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/1/1861; funeral of a
Mississippian will take place at St. Charles Hospital (future GH#8) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/1/1861; two POWs arrive - one a
spy |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/1/1861; families who have sick
and wounded soldiers in their homes are requested to call their family
physicians or report to "hospital on 26th, near Main" (probably Ross'
factory) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/1/1861; report of a body left on
the platform at the Virginia Central depot |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/1/1861; reflection on the religious nature of
the Civil War - declares that the war is a religious war |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/1/1861; details on private
hospitals in school-houses on Clay street |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/2/1861; majority of wounded POWs
are at the alms house; hospital established for prisoners at Ross' Factory |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/2/1861; statistics of city
tobacco warehouses, including Seabrook's, showing a marked decline from the
same time a year before |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/2/1861; soldiers encamped near
Hollywood Cemetery are requested not to fire their weapons into the
cemetery, after funeral attendee is struck by a spent bullet |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/2/1861; 70 wounded POWs brought
to Richmond |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/2/1861; 15 negro men wanted to
work in the Alms House Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/2/1861; rumor of body on the
platform at the Virginia Central depot is false |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
8/2/1861; 200 white girls needed to work at the
C. S. Laboratory making cartidges |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/3/1861; the number of wounded
POWs is now near 500 and more arriving; medicines will be needed |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/3/1861; Cook, Servants, and
Cleaning Women needed at the St. Charles Hospital. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/3/1861; 3 Chambermaids and a
Porter are needed at the Spotswood Hotel |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/3/1861; Jas. H. Burton, Supt. C.
S. Armory, taking bids for stone. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/3/1861; appointment of new
superintendent of the Richmond and York River RR |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/3/1861; great description of
train accident on the Central Railroad, near Hanover Junction |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/3/1861; description of hospital
facilities in Richmond (St.
Charles Hotel, Masons’ Hall) |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/3/1861; "The Life Guard," and
"Capt. Bayly's company" are at Camp Lee |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/3/1861; President Davis ad family
have moved into their home at 12th and Clay streets |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/4/1861; more details on the
Hanover Junction train wreck |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/5/1861; 74 new Yankee POWs arrive
- housed at prison in Jefferson Ward |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
8/5/1861; ladies of St. James Church have
established a hospital at the corner of Main and 3rd (probably Robertson
Hospital) |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/5/1861; description of the
"prison depot," particularly Harwood's factory, and recommendations for
treatment of prisoners |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/6/1861; Medical College Hospital
needs servant & washerwoman |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/6/1861; Henrico Liberty Guard to
meet at Company G Hall |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/6/1861; Geo. Watt & Co. selling
bowie knives & Artillery swords |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/6/1861; 17 Yankee POWs have died
in Richmond so far |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/6/1861; soldier from the 20th VA
died at the St. Charles Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/6/1861; funeral of soldier from
St. Charles Hospital |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/6/1861; ladies of St. James
Episcopal Church have obtained Judge Robertson's house, corner of 3rd and
Main, for use as a hospital (later Robertson Hospital) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/7/1861; Court Martial at
Hermitage Fair Grounds. Col. Wigfall to be President |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/7/1861; ad for tobacco from
Turpin & Yarbrough's factory |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/8/1861; St. Charles Hosp. (GH#8)
has 160 patients |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/8/1861; nearly 300 Yankee POWs at
Alms House; mentions Col. Wilcox and Capt. Ricketts being there |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/8/1861; Mrs. Judge Hopkins'
hospital, 5th bw Clay & Leigh, remarkably neat, etc |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/8/1861; description of an
officers' suicide at the Ballard House |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/8/1861; 109 prisoners in the city
jail |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/8/1861; General Hospital #1
described |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/9/1861; notes on high POW
mortality |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/9/1861; 11 Yankee POWs arrive |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/9/1861; St. Charles Hospital
(GH#8) has been spreading sawdust on the road to keep it quiet |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/9/1861; appeal for Congress to
establish a "National Hospital" in the mountains |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/10/1861; sawdust sprinkled on
Wall st. to deaden noise near St. Charles Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/10/1861; Dr. E. S. Gaillard
awarded $100 for dissertation on ozone |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
8/10/1861; Railroad up 8th street, connecting
RF&P & Petersburg Railroad is nearly complete |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/10/1861; appeal for the Alms
House to be occupied by Confederate wounded, and the Yankees moved out.
Praises the hospital as a "large
and airy building" |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/12/1861; three deaths at Bellevue
Hospital and burials in Hollywood Cemetery |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/12/1861; Ad for Singer's Barrel
factory, Cary bw 18th & 19th |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/12/1861; 3 negro nurses needed
for Medical College Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/12/1861; letter from POW of 69th
NY, at Alms House Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/13/1861; St. Charles Hospital
"greatly in need of nurses" |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/13/1861; St. Charles & Wall St.
Hospitals contain more than 460 patients |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
8/13/1861; member of 2nd SC died at
St. Charles Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/14/1861; Mrs. Jefferson Davis
applies for carriage driver & dining room waiter |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/14/1861; recommendation that
negroes be employed as hospital assistants and that Yankees be moved out of
the Alms House |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/15/1861; hospital at Gilliam's
Factory (General Hospital #3) needs supplies |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/15/1861; Yankee POW escapes from
Harwood's Factory, but recaptured - details on capture by Henrico minister |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/15/1861; note from Mrs. Judge
Hopkins, thanking donors to Alabama Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/15/1861; Armory is taking bids
for building a brick wall |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/15/1861; a dozen Manassas POWs
arrive, and taken to the prison on Main Street |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/15/1861; notes on individual prisoners
recently arrived from Norfolk |
|
Charleston
Mercury |
8/16/1861; amazingly descriptive article
describing a traveler's arrival to Richmond and the Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/16/1861; 4th Company of Richmond
Howitzers are gathering at New Fairgrounds (Camp Lee) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/16/1861; list of donations to the St. Charles
Hospital - includes donations from the children at the Lancastrian school,
as well as the workers of the C. S. Laboratory |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
8/16/1861; sick soldiers being
brought to Gilliam's Factory (Gen. Hos. #3) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/17/1861; Mrs. A. F. Hopkins of
Mobile in town, collecting & disbursing supplies for Ladies Military Aid
Society of Mobile |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/17/1861; 2 escapees from
Harwood's recaptured in King William County |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/17/1861; reiteration of appeal to
move Yankees out of Alms House |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/20/1861; detailed account of
visit to Alms House Prison Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/20/1861; paragraph on
grave-digging at Hollywood; nearly 100 soldier graves already |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
8/20/1861; Centenary Methodist
Church Hospital established |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
8/20/1861; Two hospitals have been established
by the Centenary Methodist Church |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/20/1861; Sycamore Church
establishes hospital in their lecture-room |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/21/1861; St. Charles Hospital feeding
hundreds daily, on private contributions |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/21/1861; ad for someone to
superintend St. Charles Hospital |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/21/1861; gratuitous praise of the
nearly complete Richmond fortifications |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/22/1861; Thos. M. Palmer, Surg. 2nd FL, ad
for lost or stolen horses |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/22/1861; 2 POWs recaptured after
escaping from Main St. prison |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/22/1861; 14th AL encamped just
beyond Bloody Run gully; dress parades "occur on the level ground just above
the gully" (Chimborazo Hill) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/22/1861; short extract from
letter of Yankee POW, describing prison building |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/23/1861; excellent description of
Springfield Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/23/1861; resident students needed
at Medical College Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/23/1861; Pattern maker needed at
the Armory |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/24/1861; note from Co. B,
Tredegar Bn., thanking J. R. Anderson and others for contributing towards
uniforming the company |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/24/1861; Springfield Hospital
needs one cook & one washerwoman |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
8/24/1861; description of the "Springfield
Hospital" and its operations (future GH#26) |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
8/24/1861; directors of the Richmond College
give the college to Louisiana soldiers for use as a hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/26/1861; lists two Yankee
officers who died recently at Alms House |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/26/1861; member of CS guard at
Ligon's factory shoots his officer |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/26/1861; list of prominent Yankee
POWs at Alms House |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/26/1861; Improvements to General
Hospital #1. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/27/1861; 21 new POWs arrive |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/27/1861; Hodge cartridges tested
at Armory on 8/26, with success |
| Richmond
Dispatch |
8/27/1861; Letter from "Militia;"
included a few facts on Tredegar Battalion |
| Richmond
Dispatch |
8/28/1861; note from patients at
St. Charles Hospital thanking everyone for good help |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/28/1861; death notice of a
soldier at Robertson Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/28/1861; inquest on a very tattooed man who
died near Seabrook's warehouse |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
8/28/1861; prisoner at Liggon's factory kills
his guard and attempts to escape |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/29/1861; Surgeon at Gilliam's
factory (GH#3) advertises for servants and wardmaster |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/29/1861; 6 female nurses needed
at St. Charles Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/30/1861; 5 negroes caught having
a party at Lancastrian Schoolhouse |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/30/1861; 13 POWs arrive |
| Richmond
Dispatch |
8/30/1861; very good article on St.
Charles Hospital; gives stats |
| Richmond
Dispatch |
8/31/1861; good stuff on Alabama
Hospital organization - letter from Mrs. Hopkins; says the Alabama Hosp.
est. 8/1/1861 |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/31/1861; 2 good nurses needed for
Alabama Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/31/1861; good description of
Sycamore Church Hospital; opened 8/21 |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
8/31/1861; notice that Sycamore Church Hospital
has been established |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/31/1861; Richmond Female
Institute (later GH#4) will remain open |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/31/1861; description of Sycamore
Hospital |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/3/1861; a car is running on the new city
railroad |
|
Richmond
Whig |
9/3/1861; great description of the
Richmond prisons and some of the prisoners; notes that there are 1725
prisoners in Richmond |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/4/1861; description of a hospital at the Clay
Street Chapel, near Brooke Avenue |
|
Richmond
Whig |
9/4/1861; the new city passenger
railway is now in use |
|
Richmond
Whig |
9/4/1861; "Shockoe Hill Cats" and
"Butcher Cats," local youth gangs, are menacing Navy Hill, between 4th and
7th streets, with their weekly stone battles |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/6/1861; Yankees attempt to escape
from prison, shot by sentries on Libby Hill. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
9/6/1861; J. R. Anderson (Tredegar
Iron Works) promoted to Brigadier General |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
9/6/1861; Yankee surgeon, tending
to prisoners, has made his escape |
| Richmond
Dispatch |
9/8/1861; mortality rate at St.
Charles Hospital (GH#8) |
| Richmond
Whig |
9/9/1861; Louisiana Hospital |
|
Richmond
Whig |
9/10/1861; description of a rock
battle between the "Shockoe Hill Cats" and "Butcher Cats," and the police
raid that stopped it |
|
Richmond
Whig |
9/10/1861; 15 deaths in the 16th
Georgia regiment at Camp Lee in one week |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/11/1861; ladies of the First Baptist Church
have procured a house on Fourth street beyond Leigh to use as a hospital |
|
Charleston Mercury |
9/12/1861; two large Tredegar Dahlgren cannon
delivered to Charleston |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
9/12/1861; Artillery company of VMI
alumni is being formed |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
9/12/1861; Georgia hospital is
being established in "large buildings on 21st street" |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
9/12/1861; VMI Board of Visitors
meets again to decide the fate of the Institute during the war; notes
professors engaged in service, and mistakes J. E. Johnston for T. J. Jackson |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
9/13/1861; American House Hospital
closed |
|
Richmond
Whig |
9/16/1861; four Yankee prisoners
escape from prison depot, two are shot and the others are recaptured |
|
Richmond
Whig |
9/16/1861; Louisiana soldier, shot
by a South Carolinian, dies in St. Charles Hospital |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/17/1861; "Hospitals in Richmond"
list |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/17/1861; General Winder will move his
headquarters to the corner of 9th and Broad streets |
|
Richmond
Whig |
9/17/1861; references to recent POW
escapes, says guards are more interested in keeping citizens out than
prisoners in |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
9/18/1861; locomotive "J. R. Anderson" is on
the new tracks connecting the RF&P and Petersburg RRs |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
9/18/1861; the State Armory is at the corner of
7th and Cary |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/18/1861; addenda to the hospital list of the
17th - lists the Clay street Hospital |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/18/1861; notes on Yankee prisoners and the
cost of keeping them in Richmond |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/19/1861; addenda to the hospital list of the
17th - adds Samaritan and Gamble's Hill Hospital, both under the auspices of
the YMCA |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/19/1861; six Yankees have escaped from prison |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/21/1861; Yankee surgeons in Richmond to be
paroled |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/21/1861; VMI Board of Visitors is still
meeting trying to figure out how to re-organize - cadets are serving as
drillmasters |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
9/23/1861; Elizabeth Van Lew is renting a
residence next door to her house |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/23/1861; Yankee prisoner in the "lower
prison, near Rocketts" shot and killed for verbally abusing a sentinel.
Sentinel praised for doing his duty. Prisoner buried at Shockoe Cemetery |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/23/1861; false alarm of fire near the General
Hospital |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/23/1861; Two escaped Union POWs recaptured
and returned to Harwood's Prison |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/23/1861; notes on Union surgeons released on
parole |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/23/1861; 13 Yankee prisoners from Cheat
Mountain (including a member of McClellan's staff) brought to town |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/23/1861; 60 sick Georgians have arrived and
are taken to the Georgia Hospital |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/24/1861; Yankee prisoner shot by a
sentinel; buried at Shockoe |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
9/24/1861; Medical College notice for the next
term, includes listing of professors (McCaw, Gibson, Peticolas, etc) |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/24/1861; notice for the Richmond Female
Institute (future GH#4) - says that it will go on as before, but soldiers'
daughters will be given free tuition |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/25/1861; list of hospitals in Richmond with
current capacities. Notes that POWs are at the General Hospital |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/26/1861; The State Armory is now at the
corner of 7th and Cary streets |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/26/1861; Yankee soldier dies at Prison
Hospital No. 1, under the care of Dr. Higginbotham |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
9/26/1861; Gilliam's Factory becomes
hospital (GH#3) |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
9/26/1861; Ad for tobacco at
Hardgrove Factory |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
9/26/1861; 50 patients in Main
Street Hospital (Ross' Factory) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
9/27/1861; Virginia Central RR is
building a stone building at their RR shops |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
9/27/1861; catalog for the Richmond Female
Institute's next session |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
9/27/1861; Roger Martin's school will re-open,
after its use as a hospital |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/27/1861; description of the Bethel Church
Sunday school (20th and Cary streets) |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/27/1861; fire at the laboratory in Thomas'
factory - workers flee, but fire is contained |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/27/1861; interesting Mayor's Court items: one
of the combatants in the "Hill cats/Butcher cats" rock battle unable to
prove his good character, and a slave assaults a "free negress," flees the
court and leads officers on a foot race, before being sentenced to 39 lashes |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
9/27/1861; Fire at C. S. Laboratory |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
9/27/1861; A southern turncoat is
among the prisoners at General Hospital #1 |
|
Richmond
Whig |
9/27/1861; Fire at the C. S.
Laboratory - urges movement of laboratory from a central location for safety
reasons |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
9/28/1861; excellent and lengthy
description of the Tredegar Iron Works - describes the manufacture of iron
products and mentions the Tredegar Battalion |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
9/30/1861; Dr. Bolton reports 51
patients in Bellevue Hospital |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
9/30/1861; Texas Soldier dies at St.
Charles Hospital (GH#8) |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/1/1861; Officer Winches has been engaged in
cleaning up the General Hospital and adding to the comfort of the inmates |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/1/1861; Junius Archer, proprietor of Bellona
Arsenal turns over $568 to St. Charles Hosp. - his proceeds from sale of
Columbiad to Govt. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/1/1861; Adv. from Libby & Son - warehouse
can store 20,000 bushels of wheat or 550 hhd tobacco |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/1/1861; excellent (and lengthy) description
of the operations of the Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/1/1861; 34 convalescent soldiers
from
St. Francis de Sales, Medical College, and Bellevue hospitals sent to
Petersburg |
| Richmond
Examiner |
10/1/1861; new hospital at Pleasants
& Frazier (GH#14) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/2/1861; excellent account of the
arrival in Richmond of federal prisoners and their route through the city to
Mayo's factory prison |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/2/1861; very detailed account of
the ladies' & state hospitals in Richmond - gives statistics and
descriptions |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/2/1861; description of the armament shops on
7th streets |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/2/1861; excellent description of the
building of the facilities that will become Chimborazo Hospital - originally
intended to be winter quarters |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/3/1861; General Hospital #26
mentioned |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/3/1861; Crew & Pemberton advertises their
tobacco |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/3/1861; 230 sick soldiers arrive from
Manassas |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/3/1861; Ad to Marylanders from Adjt. G. W.
Alexander, proposing to form the Zarvona Zouaves |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/4/1861; Mrs. J. Davis & Mrs. Gen. Johnston
injured in carriage wreck near Dill's farm. Arm of latter broken |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/4/1861; 4th Main soldier escaped from Ross'
Factory. Captured at Tunstall's Station by Dr. Tazewell Tyler, Mr. Apperson
& Wm. W. New |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/4/1861; Gen. Winder is recruiting a company
of exempts for city duty |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/4/1861; J. W. Pegram adv. for lost horse,
Camp Belcher near Fairfield Race Course |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/4/1861; Three Yankees escaped from prison
(non-specific) |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/4/1861; Gen. Winder wants a company of 100
men, unfit for field service, to perform duty in the city of Richmond |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
10/4/1861; Yankee prisoners, kept
at General Hospital #1, to be exchanged |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
10/4/1861; Yankee prisoner escapes
from Ross' Factory |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/5/1861; excellent description of the fitting
up of the Capitol building for use by the Confederate Congress |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/5/1861; details on four Yankee prisoners
brought to the city |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/5/1861; 100 sick soldiers arrive in the city
and conveyed to the hospitals |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/5/1861; 100 women wanted to work at the C.
S. Laboratory at 7th and Arch streets |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/5/1861; Pleasants & Frayser adv. for 4
Washerwomen and Men Servants |
|
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
Enquirer |
10/5/1861; two Texas companies arrive in Richmond, the
“Texan Aids” and the “Polk county Yankee Hunters.” |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/5/1861; statistics and praise of
the “Confederate States Prison Hospital, at Rocketts.” Notes 41 deaths have
occurred, and praises Dr. E. G. Higginbotham at length. |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/5/1861; corrections to the
statistics of the ladies’ hospitals in Richmond. Warwick House and Company G
Hospital have not been keeping good books. Death rate is between 3.2 - 3.7% |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/5/1861; Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Gen. Johnston are not as
bad off as was previously supposed after their accident. |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/5/1861; 100 white girls needed to work at the C. S.
Laboratory, corner 7th and Arch |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/5/1861; Gen. Winder adv for 100 men to serve in a company “to perform
duty in the city.” |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/7/1861;
flag of truce
boat carries away 57 POWs - Charles Bell Gibson and St. George Peachy
accompany the departing prisoners |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/7/1861; details on the times of departure at
the Petersburg Railroad |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/7/1861;
Congressman Ely
presented with a wooden sword in prison |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/7/1861;
flood ruins wharf
at Rocketts |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/7/1861;
More than 100
sick arrive for hospitals via the Central railroad |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/7/1861;
Geo. S. Palmer
renting out "two large warehouses fronting on Water and Cary streets,
between 20th and 21st streets." (later Libby Prison) |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
10/7/1861; Hon. Alfred Ely (US
Congressman) presented with a mock sword in prison |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/8/1861; 100 women needed to work
at the C. S. Laboratory |
|
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
Dispatch |
10/8/1861;
Now two Georgia
Hospitals in operation, a third in preparation |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/8/1861; correction of times of departure on
the Petersburg Railroad |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/8/1861;
death notice of
Mary E. McCaw, daughter of Dr. Wm. R. McCaw (sister to J. B. McCaw?) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/8/1861;
Tredegar adv. for
4 good mules |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/9/1861;
new Ga. hosp. at
Taylor's Factory, 24th & Franklin - not ready but patients arrive anyway,
unexpectedly |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/9/1861;
Ad for G. W.
Alexander's Zarvona Zouave guerilla |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/11/1861;
Aleck, slave of
Dr. Wellford, is nurse at St. Charles Hotel. Arrested for theft. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/11/1861;
Vice President
Alexander Stephens visits Georgia Hospitals daily |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
10/11/1861; excellent description
of the Richmond Arsenal and its operation. |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
10/11/1861; 40 Federal prisoners
being treated at GH#1; details about Mrs. Ricketts coming to Richmond to
nurse her wounded husband |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
10/11/1861; man arrested for
trespassing at Turpin & Yarborough's tobacco factory, "now used as a
hospital." |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
10/11/1861; Monticello, home of
Thomas Jefferson, to be confiscated by the Confederate States government
because of owner's disloyalty |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/12/1861;
18 Ga. Hospital
located "near Bloody Run" (Chimborazo) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/12/1861;
New foundation
for Haxall Crenshaw Mill is complete |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/12/1861;
Springfield Hosp.
thanks local ladies for delicacies |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/12/1861;
CS Armory seeks
pattern makers & smiths |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/12/1861; Greanor's factory (future GH#18)
has become a hospital, and is at present the "best supplied" |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/12/1861; 100 white girls needed to work at
the C. S. Laboratory making cartridges |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/15/1861;
J. M. Selkirk at
Smith's Factory, 21st St., applies for washerwomen for the Ga. Hospitals |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/16/1861;
36 WIA prisoners
transferred from Alms House to prison. Authorities hope to use Alms House
for CSA only |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/16/1861; Louisiana Hospital needs three good
washerwomen |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/16/1861;
N. G. Tumley,
Hosp. Steward, adv. for 2 good negro male cooks for Chimborazo. |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/16/1861; 36 prisoners transferred from the
General Hospital to the Confederate States Hospital (probably Ross Factory) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/16/1861; two of the three
warehouses belonging to Geo. Palmer, (soon to be Libby Prison) are for rent |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
10/16/1861; Masonic fraternity
offers hall as hospital |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
10/16/1861; Federal prisoners
removed from GH#1 and moved to prison on Main st. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/17/1861; Cooks needed at
Chimborazo Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/17/1861; Washerwomen needed at
the Georgia hospitals - apply to Smith's Factory, 21st street |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/17/1861;
J. H. Greanor's
slave George attacks Dr. Wellford's slave Phebe with an axe, in the bottom
near the Central depot |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/17/1861; lengthy description of the Crenshaw
Woolen Mills (located among the Tredegar works) - notes on Richmond's
industrial capacity |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/18/1861;
marriage notice -
Mr. Thos. P. Turner marries India N. Wilson, 10/15/61 at Branch's Baptist
Church, Chestfld Co. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/18/1861;
details on case
of axe-wielding slave of Capt. John H. Greanor |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/18/1861;
list of public
schools & expenses. Includes Lancastrian School ($600) & Tredegar Free
School ($250) |
|
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
Dispatch |
10/21/1861;
update on
recruiting for Zarvona Zouaves. G. W. Alexander back in town. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/21/1861; arrival of more federal
prisoners; there are now 1,189 prisoners in Richmond |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/21/1861; winter quarters in the vicinity of
the reservoir are nearly completed (future Winder Hospital) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/22/1861;
Tredegar adv. for
certain skilled laborers |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/23/1861;
List of
contributors to St. Charles Hosp. including $395 from J. R. Anderson &
Tredegar Employees |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/23/1861;
short letter of
thanks to donors from G. W. Alexander |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/23/1861; St. Charles Hotel
(GH#8) gets contribution of $4000 |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/24/1861;
details on the
anxiety at the Central depot over the non-arrival of prisoners; too many
prisoners in town; Plans afoot to convert a tobacco factory on 25th into a
prison |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/24/1861;
Four POWs (named)
died 10/23 at Prison hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/24/1861;
Nurse needed at
factory, corner 25th and Cary |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/25/1861;
Enormous
description of arrival of POWs at VA Central depot. Sent to Mayo's Factory,
corner 25th and Cary. Much on 18th & 19th GA as guards. Wm. Harris, future
author, is among the prisoners |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/25/1861;
Good paragraph on
18th GA, camped at Bloody Run, Guarding POWs |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/25/1861; fire brigade parades and tests
their new engine on the south side of the canal basin |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/25/1861; slaves of John Greanor and John
Minor Botts are acquitted of stealing from a sick soldier |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/25/1861;
"Extraordinary
Freak" - man in drag appears on Main street |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/25/1861;
1NC Cavalry
parades through Capitol Square |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/28/1861; Taylor's Factory has
been taken as a prison |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/28/1861; description of
Richmond's attitude toward U. S. prisoners |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/28/1861;
18GA & 3GA Bn
left 10/25 for N.C. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/28/1861; New hospital is established on Clay
street, between Fifth and Sixth under Mrs. Phillip Mayo |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/28/1861;
Taylor's factory
near corner of 25th & Cary, taken by the Government for a prison |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/28/1861; a new hospital has opened at
Stewart's School House, on Clay Street between 5th and 6th |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/30/1861;
Adv. for nurses
needed at Warwick Hosp., south side of Broad betw. 23rd & 24th Sts. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
10/30/1861;
runaway slave
ad., Bellevue Hospital |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
10/30/1861; 150 sick soldiers transferred from
"the Confederate quarters, on Chimborazo Heights" to Petersburg |
|
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 |
11/1/1861;
Entrenchers near
Blakey's Pond find buried cannon & shells |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/1/1861;
Rev. John C.
McCabe appointed chaplain of area military posts |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/1/1861; Gen. Robert E. Lee has returned to
the city from western Virginia |
|
Richmond
Whig |
11/1/1861; Excellent description of
Chimborazo Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/2/1861; more details on Rev. Dr. McCabe -
came from the 32VA |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/2/1861;
Adv. for cooks to
operate Spotswood Hotel kitchen |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/4/1861; Yankee prisoners, taken
to Chimborazo, make their escape |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/4/1861; 2,685 prisoners have
come to Richmond so far; those who remain number 1,714 |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/4/1861;
Soldiers guarding
prisons are building fires in streets to keep warm |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
11/4/1861; Tents blown down at Camp
Lee and Dimmock |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
11/4/1861; Two Yankee prisoners,
permitted leave in the city, attempt to escape, but are re-captured |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/6/1861;
Capt. Gibbs in
command of the military prisons in Richmond |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/6/1861;
active lumber
yard at corner 21st & Dock |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/6/1861;
E. H. Poindexter
adv. for runaway slave Riley, "from my plantation, in the lower end of
Henrico County." |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/7/1861;
CS Armory very
active now |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/8/1861;
2 guards
(civilians) at Louisiana Hospital fight - one kills the other |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/8/1861; card noting that Wm. A. Carrington
has his (private) office on Main street |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/8/1861; description of the improvements made
to the Senate chamber preparatory to the arrival of the Confederate Senate -
VA State Senate are relocated upstairs |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/8/1861; Georgia Hospital, 21st street,
advertises for servants |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
11/8/1861; A guard at Louisiana
Hospital accidentally shot a fellow guard |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/9/1861;
More on Louisiana
Hospital shooting - an accident, they decide |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/11/1861; excellent description of "the city
of Chimborazo" - describes the buildings as winter quarters, not a hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/11/1861;
Update on
Louisiana Hosp. shooting case |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/11/1861;
18GA & 3GA Bn
returned to Rd on Nov. 8 - Bethel Regt. "now occupies quarters on Hospital
Hill" |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/11/1861;
slave of James
Royster whipped for stealing coffee from Ga. Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/12/1861; statistics of burials in Shockoe
cemetery during the last quarter, including 97 Union POWs |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/12/1861;
Adv. from Libby &
Son for new sales items - tar, turpentine, etc |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
11/12/1861; quarterly statistics of the Shockoe
Cemetery - 99 POWs buried there |
|
New York
Herald |
11/12/1861; lengthy description of
Richmond, Lynchburg, & Nashville |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
11/12/1861; 247 dead POWs interred
in Shockoe Hill burial ground |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/13/1861;
rent notice by
Geo. S. Palmer, for 2 warehouses fronting on Cary & Dock Sts |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/14/1861;
rent notice for
Libby & Son's warehouse |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/15/1861; colored female nurse needed at the
2nd Alabama Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/18/1861;
Camp Dimmock is
“beyond the reservoir” |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
11/18/1861; great description of the prison
system in Richmond with list of employees (included Wirz and Higginbotham).
Notes that over 2000 POWs now in Richmond |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/19/1861; 18GA left the city today |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/21/1861;
2 CS soldier
guards in trouble for shooting at POWs – one fatality, the other a miss.
Names given, prison not ID'ed |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
11/21/1861; sentinel at unnamed prison charged
and acquitted of shooting at the prisoners |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
11/21/1861; sentinel at "Confederate Prison No.
2" accidentally shot two prisoners, one mortally. Mentions that he was on a
hill behind the prison when his musket accidentally discharged. Mayor finds
that the incident was an accident |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/22/1861;
G. L. Gates,
steward at Chimborazo #2, adv. for one male cook |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/22/1861;
Camp Dimmock
beyond Old Fair Grounds, near trotting track |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/22/1861;
Dr. McCabe, post
Chaplain, overwhelmed with work |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/23/1861;
Summary of
artillery review at Camp Dimmock |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
11/23/1861; a baker is wanted at the General
Hospital (GH#1) |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
11/25/1861; More POWs arrive at
Richmond. |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
11/25/1861; 3 POWs died in prison. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/26/1861;
Short note to 4
little girls from G. Washington Alexander, thanking them on behalf of
Zarvona Zouaves |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/26/1861;
death notice for
Lt. A. B. Bird, H5TX, died Robertson Hospital – funeral from St. Paul’s
Chapel, 5th St. near Armory |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/26/1861;
Adv. for nurses
at Byrd Island Hosp. – one white male & 3 or 4 servants |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/26/1861; Editorial complaint
about conditions at Chimborazo. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/27/1861; McCaw replies to the
previous editorial. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/29/1861;
C. B. Gibson at
G. H. #1 wants to hire 9 male nurses |
|
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 |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/30/1861;
31 POWs arrive –
now a total of 1483 in town – names 4 POWs who died 11/29 |
|
Charleston Mercury |
12/2/1861; war news - notes that Tredegar has
started a wire factory |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
12/2/1861; hospitals established in
Grant factories (GH#12) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/3/1861;
Slave of
Pleasant’s & Frayser whipped for stealing bed from 2nd Georgia Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/4/1861; more
details on the new Senate chamber for the State Senate |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/4/1861;
Adv. for
employees at Byrd Island Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/5/1861;
Dr. Higginbotham
given a hand-made pipe by a grateful POW patient |
|
Richmond
Whig |
12/5/1861; List of patients at
Robertson Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/6/1861;
G. S. McNeal,
Steward 2nd Alabama Hospital adv. for lost overcoat |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/7/1861; excellent
directory of churches in Richmond, pastors, and times of worship |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/7/1861;
death notice for
13 month old son of Charles H. Winston |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/7/1861;
2 negro
washerwomen needed at 2nd Ala Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/10/1861; new hospitals at
factories of Grant (GH#12) and Roysters (GH#20) |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
12/10/1861; list of clothing for
Massachusetts prisoners |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
12/10/1861; "Negro Prisoners of
War" |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
12/10/1861; 3 officers and one VMI cadet are
ordered from the Camp of Instruction to duty in the prisons (includes T. P.
Turner and Geo. Emack) |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
12/10/1861; List of deceased
Prisoners of War |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/11/1861;
Adv from Libby &
So for recently received goods – selling tar, turpentine, etc. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/12/1861; duel
takes place at the Broad Rock Race Course |
|
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
Enquirer |
12/14/1861; new hospital opened at Mayo's
factory, corner of 25th and Cary street |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/17/1861;
Marylanders
looking to rent building for hospital use |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/18/1861; Notes on
prisoners of war - notes that Capt. Ricketts and his wife will be released
today |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
12/18/1861; Capt. Ricketts and his wife are to
be sent North - notes that while in Richmond they were visited by Pres.
Davis and others |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/19/1861;
Residents of
Union & Church Hills to meet at Co. G armory for local defense |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/19/1861;
Nice sales notice
for Atkinson’s Factory, north side of Main betw. 26 & 27 |
|
New York
Herald |
12/23/1861; non-specific description of harsh
treatment of Union POWs in Richmond; notes that Tredegar has produced a
submarine to operate against the blockade |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/24/1861; Dr.
Dandridge, at the Byrd Island Hospital, is looking for two substitutes |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/25/1861;
Kent, Paine & Co.
warehouse for rent |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/27/1861;
Attempt to escape
from City Jail foiled |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/27/1861;
Tredegar
Battalion to have full dress uniform drill |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/27/1861;
Slave of T. & S.
Hardgrove punished for providing whiskey to POWs |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/28/1861;
Tredegar
Battalion looked good on parade |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/30/1861;
update on Yankee
POWs - much cheerfulness among the prisoners |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/31/1861;
Thos. B. Rees,
Main between 9 & 10 wants to hire cook for small family |
