Richmond Dispatch	1/1/1862; male negro nurses wanted at Georgia Hospital, 21st bw Main & Cary
Richmond Dispatch	1/2/1862; St. Charles Hospital committee to meet this evening “at their office in the Hospital.”
Richmond Dispatch	1/2/1862; 240 prisoners of war to be exchanged; 2 POWs from the 23rd PA arrive
Richmond Dispatch	1/2/1862; meeting of the St. Charles hospital committee will be held tonight; includes list of members
Richmond Whig	1/1/1862; use of the Alms House (GH#1) is being urged to be returned to the poor
Richmond Whig	1/2/1862; description of New Year's Day in Richmond - notes that the main event was the reception at Pres. Davis' house, and subsequent reception at the Governor's mansion
Richmond Whig	1/2/1862; notice from John N. Van Lew (E. Van Lew's brother) that the partnership of Van Lew, Taylor & Co. has been dissolved, and the business will now be conducted solely in Van Lew's name.
Richmond Dispatch	1/3/1862; ad for E. W. Cone’s school, Franklin between 8th and 9th sts.
Richmond Dispatch	1/3/1862; Geo. S. Palmer adv warehouse for rent, fronting Cary and Dock
Richmond Dispatch	1/3/1862; fire at Ginter, Alvey & Arents’ warehouse
Richmond Dispatch	1/3/1862; Short list of prominent POWs being sent North
Richmond Dispatch	1/3/1862; Capt. Hugh McQuaid, Co. I, 39th NY, died in the Military Hospital 12/26. 25 POWs died in December.
Richmond Enquirer	1/3/1862; 240 exchanged Yankee prisoners will soon be sent North
Richmond Whig	1/3/1862; J. W. Hoeniger becomes proprietor of the Spotswood Hotel. Notes that he is very young
Richmond Dispatch	1/4/1862; G. W. Archer, Asst. Surgeon at GH#1, adv for lost scarf
Richmond Dispatch	1/4/1862; very good sales notice, with dimensions, for Atkinson’s tobacco factory, north side of Main between 26 & 27
Richmond Enquirer	1/4/1862; "Humors of Prison Life;" details about the Richmond Prison Association and their song
New York Herald	1/6/1862; notes on returned Yankee POWs and the treatment they received in Richmond - notes Dr. Higginbotham for his beneficence and a "Swiss sergeant" [probably Wirz] who is very cruel
Richmond Dispatch	1/6/1862; Elizabeth Van Lew’s mother adv for a good cook
Richmond Enquirer	1/6/1862; description of a visit to "Hospital No. 1" where wounded Yankees are being treated
Richmond Whig	1/6/1862; Mr. John Francisco has been appointed clerk of Confederate prisons in Richmond. Also, last Friday 239 prisoners were exchanged
Richmond Dispatch	1/7/1862; Jenkins, of Ben McCullough Ranger, shot in bar room. Sent to Lousiana Hospital
Richmond Dispatch	1/7/1862; Alfred Ely’s lengthy account of time in Richmond.
Richmond Dispatch	1/8/1862; L. M. Burfoot & Chesterfield Artillery to be mustered in at Battery #15
Richmond Whig	1/8/1862; schemes for connecting railroads via tunnels are before the Legislature
Richmond Dispatch	1/9/1862; Taylor’s and Mayo’s factories (Cary between 24th and 25th streets) are no longer prisons, and Taylor’s is preparing to become a hospital for Marylanders. Probably the building that became GH#21
Richmond Dispatch	1/9/1862; 160 POWs to be sent North
Richmond Dispatch	1/9/1862; Public meeting at Springfield Hall to organize Local Defense Company
Richmond Whig	1/10/1862; Artillery company from Chesterfield County will be mustered in at Battery No. 15; local defense force is being raised at Springfield Hall (GH#26)
Richmond Dispatch	1/11/1862; workmen are preparing a room for the C. S. Senate in the northwest corner of the Capitol
Richmond Whig	1/11/1862; death notice for Philip Rahm, proprietor of the "Eagle Foundry," who died of lockjaw. He was attended by Dr. Bolton.
Richmond Dispatch	1/13/1862; Capt. Gibbs promoted to Major & leaves for Salisbury. Lt. Hairston, 19th Miss., to be his replacement. Prisons will be kept as a prison depot.
Richmond Dispatch	1/13/1862; runaway slave notice, Globe Hospital
Richmond Dispatch	1/14/1862; Dr. Gibson adv for 10 servants to act as nurses at General Hospital
Richmond Dispatch	1/14/1862; Luther Libby adv for cook, washer, ironer - apparently for personal use
Richmond Enquirer	1/14/1862; Yankee prisoners at Atkinson's factory have destroyed machinery and tobacco in their prison
Richmond Dispatch	1/15/1862; statistics on Oakwood Cemetery; 540 soldiers buried there so far
Richmond Dispatch	1/15/1862; two Yankees escape from prison
Richmond Whig	1/15/1862; there have been 550 burials at Oakwood cemetery so far
Richmond Dispatch	1/16/1862; Libby & Son adv for rope for sale
Richmond Dispatch	1/17/1862; 160 POWs to leave Richmond
Richmond Dispatch	1/17/1862; woman convicted of stealing bed clothing from Spotswood
Richmond Dispatch	1/18/1862; Bellevue Hospital adv for bread maker
Richmond Dispatch	1/18/1862; 148 prisoners leave for exchange
Richmond Dispatch	1/18/1862; White woman badly burned at Church Hill hospital (unnamed)
Richmond Dispatch	1/18/1862; 3 POWs escaped from Henrico Co. Jail - 2 ex-CSA soldiers
Richmond Dispatch	1/18/1862; St. George Peachy missing pocket-case of instruments
Richmond Enquirer	1/20/1862; Lt. Hairston relieved of command of C. S. Military Prison by Capt. Godwin
Richmond Enquirer	1/20/1862; report of the death of ex-president John Tyler
Richmond Dispatch	1/21/1862; Knifing and shooting at Va. Central RR depot.
Richmond Dispatch	1/21/1862; Engineer of RF&P RR murdered
Richmond Dispatch	1/21/1862; John Tyler will be buried today in Hollywood Cemetery, near President Monroe.
Richmond Enquirer	1/21/1862; details for the funeral of ex-president John Tyler, to be held tomorrow
Richmond Enquirer	1/22/1862; description of the funeral of ex-president John Tyler and burial at Hollywood cemetery
Richmond Whig	1/22/1862; Description of the funeral of Pres. John Tyler. Body taken from the "Hall of Congress" to St. Paul's, where the funeral sermon was delivered, and thence to Hollywood Cemetery. Notes that the weather was exceedingly bad.
Richmond Dispatch	1/23/1862; Meeting at Co. G Hall - Church and Union Hill residents to form company.
Richmond Dispatch	1/23/1862; 4 POWs arrive on the Richmond and Danville Railroad
Richmond Dispatch	1/23/1862; adv for Misses Clopton School, Franklin betw 3rd & 4th, open since 10/1
Richmond Dispatch	1/24/1862; 3 POWs arrive escorted by Capt. Griffin, 6th Ga., and are lodged in "the military prison"
Richmond Dispatch	1/24/1862; 2 female matrons wanted for Byrd Island Hospital (GH#3)
Richmond Whig	1/24/1862; Senate proposes a monument to John Tyler in Hollywood Cemetery. Governor states that the lot of ground near James Monroe was not large enough to accommodate Tyler's remains, and he was placed in the "outer circle," which the governor recommends the state purchase.
Richmond Dispatch	1/25/1862; details on plan to connect area RRs by “permanent tracks”
Richmond Dispatch	1/25/1862; ambulance train runs off the track near Gordonsville. Nobody hurt.
Richmond Dispatch	1/25/1862; an engine on the Va. Central RR blows up - no one hurt.
Richmond Dispatch	1/25/1862; 3 escaped Yankees from Henrico jail recaptured
Richmond Dispatch	1/27/1862; unnamed soldier shot in dispute - sent to Louisiana Hospital
Richmond Dispatch	1/27/1862; 5 Yankee POWs (named) leaving for exchange
Richmond Dispatch	1/27/1862; ad for the Medical College Hospital. McCaw and Gibson are amongst the Surgeons
Richmond Dispatch	1/27/1862; new ad for Bellevue Hospital
Richmond Whig	1/27/1862; The Clay Statue in Capitol Square is becoming soiled from exposure to the weather
Richmond Dispatch	1/28/1862; large explosion at Govt. Laboratory, foot of 7th St. - many injured
Richmond Dispatch	1/28/1862; Dr. James V. Cook is Surgeon at Louisiana Hospital - details on recent shooting
Richmond Dispatch	1/28/1862; little boys caught & fined for throwing stones at Spotswood
Richmond Dispatch	1/28/1862; new schedule for trains on R&YRRR
Richmond Enquirer	1/28/1862; explosion at the Confederate Laboratory
Richmond Whig	1/28/1862; Explosion at the Confederate Laboratory, on Byrd Island
Richmond Whig	1/28/1862; General Assembly passes a bill to move the line of the South Side Railroad to avoid the High Bridge, near Farmville, which has been scaring passengers
Richmond Whig	1/28/1862; Two soldiers get into a "shooting affair" in which one is wounded and taken to Louisiana Hospital
Richmond Dispatch	1/29/1862; Libby & Son advertise that they have tar, rosin, and lime
Richmond Dispatch	1/29/1862; Libby & Son adv for roe herrings for sale, 20th & Cary
Richmond Dispatch	1/29/1862; sales notice, 1/6 of the U. S. Hotel
Richmond Dispatch	1/30/1862; rent notice, 2 large warehouse, fronting Cary & Dock, between 19-20 st
Richmond Dispatch	1/30/1862; Salisbury Prison ready to take 700 POWs now in Richmond
Richmond Dispatch	1/30/1862; George S. Patton in town - brave, gallant, etc.
Richmond Whig	1/30/1862; Yankee prisoners on one side of Main street are selling carved bones to Confederate prisoners on the other.
Richmond Whig	1/30/1862; temporary tobacco warehouse is proposed at the "Old Fair Grounds"
Richmond Dispatch	1/31/1862; none of boys hurt in recent lab explosion. Govt now building storehouse at “upper extremity” of Brown’s Island for fuse work
Richmond Dispatch	2/1/1862; D. Crenshaw adv for 12 male nurses for Royster Hosp, 25th St. 6 white & 6 black
Richmond Whig	2/1/1862; proposed tobacco warehouse at the "Old Fair Grounds" (Monroe Park) will not go over well in the neighborhood
Richmond Dispatch	2/3/1862; Lt. J. L. S. Kirby, CSA, on duty at prisons in Richmond, ordered to Salisbury to report to Gibbs
Richmond Dispatch	2/3/1862; Geo. W. Briggs, Surgeon PACS, offers his house, corner 27 & Broad, for rent
Richmond Dispatch	2/6/1862; Chas. Schop, age 19 & Jno. Fitzpatrick, age 17, both died 2/4 from injuries at CS Lab explosion
Richmond Dispatch	2/6/1862; Jas. M. Taylor in court. Walls of his bldg, corner 20th & Cary “in a dangerous condition”
Richmond Dispatch	2/6/1862; Yankee POW arrives - a German
Richmond Dispatch	2/6/1862; small fire at Ligon Factory prison, 25th st
Richmond Dispatch	2/6/1862; rumor of Stonewall Jackson's resignation is false
Richmond Enquirer	2/6/1862; Fire at Liggon's prison; no one injured
Richmond Dispatch	2/7/1862; Two cars of Va. Central freight train derail just below Hanover Court House.
Richmond Dispatch	2/7/1862; New Senate room, NW corner of Capitol, about finished
Richmond Dispatch	2/8/1862; paragraph explaining how Stonewall Jackson got his nickname - “one or two” explanations
Richmond Dispatch	2/8/1862; death notice for little girl of T. B. & E. S. Rees
Richmond Dispatch	2/10/1862; Capt. T. P. Wilkinson’s Co., at Marion Hill Battery, ordered to Evansport
Richmond Dispatch	2/10/1862; rumor that the Govt has stopped the Stearns & Co. distillery
Richmond Dispatch	2/10/1862; 370 local POWs due to be exchanged
Richmond Dispatch	2/10/1862; John Bankhead Magruder arrives in Richmond on 2/8; R. H. Anderson and other notables are at the Spotswood
Richmond Dispatch	2/10/1862; “John Taylor, charged with exposing his person in the street, was committed for want of security for his good behavior”
Richmond Dispatch	2/10/1862; city jail is being repaired after being damaged by a prisoner; appeal for a new jail
Richmond Dispatch	2/10/1862; gunsmiths needed at Va. Armory, corner 7th & Cary
Richmond Dispatch	2/10/1862; ward-room steward on the "Patrick Henry" advertises for a substitute
Richmond Dispatch	2/10/1862; adv. for lost Chimborazo Payroll
Richmond Dispatch	2/11/1862; adv from E. Porter Alexander asking citizens to turn over war trophies
Richmond Dispatch	2/11/1862; Ballard House barber shop needs a barber
Richmond Dispatch	2/13/1862; naval captain brought to Richmond prison as a spy
Richmond Dispatch	2/13/1862; 3 POW deaths (named)
Richmond Dispatch	2/13/1862; soldier badly injured in mis-step at RF&P RR depot
Richmond Dispatch	2/13/1862; YMCA meets at corner 10th and Broad. Mr. P. B. Price tells of “his labors in Chimborazo Hospital. The soldiers there were eager for religious instruction and reading.”
Richmond Dispatch	2/13/1862; J. R. Anderson adv for blacksmiths
Richmond Dispatch	2/13/1862; Talbot & Brother, owners of “extensive foundry corner of 17th and Cary” sold everything intact to Navy Dept.
Richmond Dispatch	2/13/1862; St. Charles Hotel (GH#8) unoccupied, needs fixing up for hospital
Richmond Dispatch	2/14/1862; 57th VA is stationed at Howard’s Grove, mostly re-enlisted, men "devotedly attached" to Col. Lewis Armistead
Richmond Dispatch	2/15/1862; Capt. Jas. C. Johnson, 1 Va Arty at Camp Winder, wants 10 men for local battery defense.
Richmond Whig	2/15/1862; Capt. O. J. Wise's remains arrive via the Petersburg depot and taken to lie in state on the third floor of the Capitol in the room "recently fitted up for the occupancy of the Confederate Senate"
Richmond Dispatch	2/17/1862; 57th Va left Howard’s Grove for Petersburg on 2/15
Richmond Dispatch	2/17/1862; RYRRR offering special train for in-bound visitors to inauguration
Richmond Whig	2/17/1862; description of the funeral of Capt. O. J. Wise at St. James' Church and Hollywood Cemetery. A large number of people came to see the body while it was lying in state, in a metallic coffin, in the Confederate Senate Room at the Capitol.
Richmond Whig	2/18/1862; burial statistics of the Shockoe Hill Cemetery for the quarter ending 1/31/1862. Notes also that 37 POWs were buried during the same time. Gives statistics for previous years as well. Notes that they have not seen such a report for Hollywood Cemetery.
Richmond Dispatch	2/19/1862; VCRR adv for "section master" from Manassas to Centreville
Richmond Enquirer	2/19/1862; 397 federal prisoners to be exchanged; list of officers exchanged and for whom
Richmond Enquirer	2/20/1862; description of the chain of command in the prison system, list of some of the higher ranking officers now in the "tobacco warehouses" in Richmond; 3,000 prisoners are being paroled.
Richmond Whig	2/21/1862; President Davis will be inaugurated tomorrow; railroad companies will run extra trains; ceremonies will occur on Capitol Square, businesses will be closed
Richmond Dispatch	2/22/1862; opening of St. Charles (GH#8) for "wayfaring soldiers"
Richmond Enquirer	2/22/1862; immigrant workers at C. S. Laboratory arrested for not taking the oath of allegiance - released after some confusion
Richmond Whig	2/22/1862; very detailed description of the plans for the inauguration of Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens. After the ceremonies, the "President's Mansion will be open from 8 to 11 o'clock."
Richmond Dispatch	2/24/1862; only 138 prisoners left in Richmond; Ross' factory no longer to be prison, Howard's factory to remain a prison
Richmond Whig	2/24/1862; description of the inauguration of President Davis and Alexander Stephens at the Capitol, and the lousy weather
Richmond Dispatch	2/20/1862; Hospital paymaster’s office is at the corner of Marshall and 26th
Richmond Dispatch	2/20/1862; T. P. Wilkinson, commanding Winder Battery, needs a few more good men for Battery No. 9, Brooke Turnpike
Richmond Dispatch	2/21/1862; Another meeting at Springfield Hall for Church and Union Hill residents to form a volunteer company
Richmond Dispatch	2/21/1861; great stuff on the Tredegar Battalion from R. S. Archer to city council
Richmond Dispatch	2/22/1862; Capt. George W. Alexander of Baltimore arrived 2/21, and is staying at the Powhatan Hotel
Richmond Whig	2/24/1862; fire at Vannerson's photographic gallery
Richmond Whig	2/24/1862; crowds of people have been visiting President Davis at his residence. Armory Band is present
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	2/25/1862; four male negroes needed for nurses, Georgia Hospital, 21st street
Richmond Dispatch	2/26/1862; Co. B, Tredegar Battalion presents English sword to Capt. Alvis. Maj. R. S. Archer makes speech.
Richmond Dispatch	2/26/1862; Mrs. R. M. Grinnell, matron of late St. Charles Hospital, now matron at Globe Hospital (future GH#11) – Dr. St. George Peachy in charge
Richmond Dispatch	2/27/1862; R. E. Butler, former sentinel at Chimborazo jailed for making threats against August Friend, Sgt. of the Guard there.
Richmond Whig	2/27/1862; man threatens to kill the sergeant of the guard at Chimborazo Hospital
Richmond Dispatch	3/3/1862; Account of arrests of J. M. Botts, Stearns & others. Confined in “the new brick building on the extension of Fifteenth street, on the right-hand side, beyond the auction house of Messrs. Dickinson & Hill” (Castle Godwin)
Richmond Dispatch	3/3/1862; Rent notice for Capt. J. W. Atkinson’s 5-story tobacco factory, Main St.
Richmond Dispatch	3/3/1862; White door keeper needed at Byrd Island Hospital (future GH#3)
Richmond Dispatch	3/3/1862; Dr. O. A. Crenshaw examining recruits & substitutes at Royster Hospital (future GH#20)
Richmond Whig	3/3/1862; John Minor Botts, Franklin Stearns and other Union men have been arrested and put in "a jail situated in Lumpkin’s Alley" [Castle Godwin]
Richmond Whig	3/3/1862; thirteen local defence companies are marched to the "Virginia State Armory, corner of Cary and 7th streets" and given weapons
Richmond Whig	3/3/1862; Jefferson Davis' proclamation that Richmond is under martial law and forced prohibition; Gen. John H. Winder will enforce this proclamation; Capt. A. C. Godwin is appointed Provost Marshal of Richmond. All private firearms must be turned in
Richmond Enquirer	3/4/1862; good description of Castle Godwin
Richmond Enquirer	3/4/1862; John Minor Botts and Franklin Stearns arrested; Richmond under martial law
Richmond Enquirer	3/4/1862; John Scully & Pryce Lewis (Pinkerton spies) arrested and claim protection of British government.
Richmond Enquirer	3/4/1862; Union sympathizers sent to Castle Godwin; John Scully sent there also
Richmond Examiner	3/4/1862; editorial condemnation of Franklin Stearns, a Unionist and wealthy citizen
Richmond Dispatch	3/5/1862; Lt. Jno. F. Tompkins, Battery 15, raising a company for T. G. Peyton’s new regiment
Richmond Dispatch	3/6/1862; Stable of Dr. Charles Bell Gibson, Franklin St., burned
Richmond Dispatch	3/6/1862; list of recent arrests of Unionists including Rev. Bosserman of 1st Independent Christian Church, Mayo St.
Richmond Dispatch	3/6/1862; vandalism at Hollywood Cemetery
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 Dispatch	3/6/1862; Royster’s Hospital, 25th St. (future GH#20) needs 6 white nurses, 4 black nurses, 1 cook
Richmond Enquirer	3/6/1862; monuments vandalized at Hollywood Cemetery
Richmond Enquirer	3/6/1862; Charles Palmer and others arrested on charges of disloyalty and locked up in Castle Godwin
Richmond Enquirer	3/6/1862; Due to recent Unionist mischief, all Union prisoners (500 in number) are denied access to anyone or anything from the outside
Richmond Enquirer	3/6/1862; 21 prisoners now at Castle Godwin; general discussion of suitable buildings for prisons
Richmond Enquirer	3/6/1862; fire at Dr. Gibson's stables - ascribed to arson
Richmond Enquirer	3/6/1862; locomotive explodes on the Orange and Alexandria railroad
Richmond Examiner	3/6/1862; Unionists and grog-sellers have been confined in McDaniel's jail (Castle Godwin)
Richmond Whig	3/6/1862; accidental death at the "Richmond Medical Hospital" [probably Medical College Hospital]
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 Whig	3/6/1862; Dr. Gibson's stables were partially burnt down
Richmond Dispatch	3/7/1862; Tredegar-made brass piece for Cropper’s Co. on display, Capitol Square
Richmond Dispatch	3/7/1862; Charles Palmer has been released from custody
Richmond Dispatch	3/7/1862; Hollywood Cemetery offering $100 reward for capture of recent vandals
Richmond Dispatch	3/8/1862; locomotive hauled through the city streets to RF&P depot with considerable difficulty
Richmond Dispatch	3/8/1862; Robert E. Lee arrived in Richmond yesterday
Richmond Dispatch	3/7/1862; Union prisoners will soon be moved to "Libby's buildings"
Richmond Enquirer	3/7/1862; stragglers being arrested and put in Castle Godwin
Richmond Enquirer	3/7/1862; Capt. A. C. Godwin resigns as Provost Marshal to concentrate on his duties as commandant of prisons.
Richmond Enquirer	3/7/1862; Charles Palmer released from custody for suspected unionist sympathies
Richmond Enquirer	3/7/1862; Two more unionists arrested and put in Castle Godwin
Richmond Whig	3/7/1862; Charles Palmer has been released from Castle Godwin
Richmond Dispatch	3/10/1862; remarks on new arrivals at McDaniel’s Jail – one female. Uses the term “Castle Godwin”
Richmond Dispatch	3/10/1862; Wm. Carson, Tredegar operative, in trouble involving Ann Beazley & “house of ill fame” in Butchertown
Richmond Dispatch	3/10/1862; Tredegar wants to buy 100,000 feet of timber
Richmond Whig	3/10/1862; Castle Godwin mentioned
Richmond Whig	3/10/1862; Tredegar Iron Works are looking to buy a lot of Oak and Hickory timber
Richmond Dispatch	3/11/1862; John, slave of Dr. McCaw, gets 25 lashes for stealing supplies from Chimborazo Hospital
Richmond Dispatch	3/11/1862; 3 Yankee officers (including Zenas Bliss) stay overnight in Castle Godwin
Richmond Dispatch	3/12/1862; Hollywood Cemetery asks City Council for land to expand; Wm. H. Johnson looking to recoup losses from plastering Alms House
Richmond Dispatch	3/12/1862; Mrs. Grinnell at Globe Hospital (future GH#11) thanks Mrs. Wm. Sydnor, Meadow Farm, for delicacies
Richmond Dispatch	3/13/1862; commissioners conducting vote on new Constitution include Luther Libby, R. R. Howison, G. A. Myers.
Richmond Dispatch	3/13/1862; Major John C. Porter Provost Marshal of the City, with Godwin commanding eastern half and John C. Maynard the western half; Passport office to 9tha & Broad & Winder to house on 9th beside Mechanics’ Institute
Richmond Dispatch	3/14/1862; very long anecdote about 14 year old patient at Maryland Hospital, 25th and Cary
Richmond Dispatch	3/14/1862; 19 & 179 Militia camped at New Fairgrounds (Camp Lee)
Richmond Dispatch	3/14/1862; Judge Arthur F. Hopkins confined for threatening murder
Richmond Dispatch	3/14/1862; slide on Richmond and York River Railroad repaired
Richmond Dispatch	3/15/1862; Tredegar Battalion will assemble this afternoon on Gamble’s Hill
Richmond Dispatch	3/17/1862; Judge A. F. Hopkins was not jailed, but released for assault – newspaper clarifies the mistake.
Richmond Dispatch	3/17/1862; Parker’s Battery to assemble at the old market, and march to Camp of Instruction (Camp Lee)
Richmond Dispatch	3/18/1862; Capt. Geo. W. Alexander appointed Assistant Provost Marshal; he has not recovered fully from his injuries
Richmond Dispatch	3/18/1862; workers at the state armory especially loyal
Richmond Whig	3/18/1862; description of the laying of the cornerstone of the new Richmond Theater, and the contents placed therein
Richmond Whig	3/18/1862; Capt. Geo. W. Alexander has been appointed Assistant Provost Marshal of Richmond
Richmond Dispatch	3/20/1862; lamentation about the large number of frivolous lawyers abounding in the city
Richmond Dispatch	3/20/1862; Governor no longer operating at his house – private office at Capitol, public office upstairs at City Hall
Richmond Dispatch	3/20/1862; 3rd Georgia Hospital, Franklin & 24th, wants 3 black male servants
Richmond Dispatch	3/20/1862; 31 new prisoners installed in warehouses on Main st., 12 of them CSA soldiers
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	3/20/1862; Half a dozen new inmates at Castle Godwin
Richmond Dispatch	3/18/1862; McCaw adv for 500 negroes (“tobacco hands preferred”) to work at Chimborazo
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	3/21/1862; Tredegar advertises for 40 negroes
Richmond Dispatch	3/22/1862; 14 year old boy run over by train on RF&P tracks near Brook Road
Richmond Dispatch	3/22/1862; 77 Unionists from Loudon County incarcerated in “military prison on Main street.”
Richmond Dispatch	3/24/1862; 7 Unionists arrested in Roanoke county, put in Castle Godwin
Richmond Dispatch	3/25/1862; Lt. George Emack adv for lost cape
Richmond Dispatch	3/25/1862; RYRRR repaired after rain damage
Richmond Dispatch	3/25/1862; paper advocates using the cannon that are on the street corners to be recast
Richmond Dispatch	3/25/1862; Cyrus Bossieux’s Artillery, at Camp Winder, needs 25 more men
Richmond Dispatch	3/25/1862; J. F. Goodwin & J. E. Tanner are raising a company of flying artillery to be attached to the Tredegar Battalion
Richmond Dispatch	3/26/1862; names of latest Castle Godwin prisoners
Richmond Dispatch	3/26/1862; paragraph lauding energy & judgment of G. W. Alexander
Richmond Dispatch	3/26/1862; update on spring improvements at Capitol Square
Richmond Dispatch	3/26/1862; 14th Alabama is camped at Camp Winder
Richmond Dispatch	3/26/1862; change of surgeon-in-charge at Bellevue Hospital
Richmond Dispatch	3/27/1862; 500 Yankee prisoners transferred to Libby & Son’s warehouses
Richmond Dispatch	3/27/1862; worker at Richmond Armory, 7th Street, injured when shell explodes
Richmond Dispatch	3/27/1862; 4 Yankee POWs arrive via the VCRR
Richmond Dispatch	3/27/1862; two “good grinders” needed at Richmond Arsenal
Richmond Whig	3/27/1862; man severely injured in an explosion of a shell at the "Laboratory, on Byrd Island"
Richmond Dispatch	3/28/1862; local barman leaps from 3rd floor of Libby – broken skull & compound fractures of all four limbs!
Richmond Dispatch	3/28/1862; Shockoe Hill Cats and Butchertown Cats are engaging in rock battles, but have not been caught yet
Richmond Dispatch	3/28/1862; one of Talbott & Bro.’s negroes shot
Richmond Dispatch	3/28/1862; body of soldier “rose to surface” at Dock, 20th St.
Richmond Dispatch	3/29/1862; Castle Godwin takes Libby Prison overflow (more than 700 at Libby)
Richmond Dispatch	3/29/1862; Richmond Arsenal employees form company, Jas. D. Brown Capt.
Richmond Dispatch	3/31/1862; recruits, convalescents, et al, to report to Camp Winder ASAP
Richmond Dispatch	3/31/1862; excellent description of Libby Prison, describes good food and hospital
Richmond Dispatch	4/1/1862; 2nd Baptist Church melts bell for “2nd Baptist Church Battery;” John Tanner, of Tredegar, involved
Richmond Dispatch	4/1/1862; death notice for little boy of Charles R. & Jennie Rees.
Richmond Dispatch	4/3/1862; long list of everyone committed to Castle Godwin – date and charge
Richmond Dispatch	4/3/1862; Tredegar wants to buy 50-100 young mules, hire machinists, furnace managers, colliers and blacksmiths, and hire 100-150 negroes
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 Whig	4/3/1862; three ads from Tredegar Iron Works - they need 150 negroes to work at blast furnaces in Botetourt county, 50-100 mules, and machinists and blacksmiths
Richmond Dispatch	4/4/1862; ladies of Richmond donate $113.25 to Chimborazo, originally intended for the proposed “Sidney Hospital”
Richmond Dispatch	4/4/1862; soldier accidentally killed at Camp Lee
Richmond Dispatch	4/5/1862; Pryce Lewis and John Scully to be hanged soon at the New Fair Grounds (Camp Lee)
Richmond Dispatch	4/5/1862; several Union officers released from Castle Godwin, including Zenas Bliss
Richmond Dispatch	4/5/1862; B&O RR engine taken from RF&P depot via Broad St. to RYRRR Depot
Richmond Dispatch	4/5/1862; Lt. Semple removes CS soldiers from City Jail and sends them back to their regiments
Richmond Dispatch	4/5/1862; Old Dominion Iron and Nail Works needs nail keg hoops
Richmond Dispatch	4/7/1862; man who leaped from 3rd floor of CS Military Prison (Libby Prison) is dead
Richmond Dispatch	4/7/1862; Tredegar Battalion parades on Capitol Square – more than 200 men. One company has 12-pdr howitzers
Richmond Dispatch	4/7/1862; Co. B Arsenal Battalion organized, officers named. Other Governmental agencies organizing for local defense
Richmond Dispatch	4/7/1862; Tredegar Artillery to organize
Richmond Dispatch	4/8/1862; T. P. Turner and G. W. Alexander make dawn raid on bars, Cary between 17th and 18th.
Richmond Dispatch	4/9/1862; 22 more Yankee POWs arrive, 724 prisoners total - # by category
Richmond Dispatch	4/9/1862; escape attempt of Castle Godwin prisoner foiled
Richmond Dispatch	4/9/1862; statistics of Libby Prison - currently 724 prisoners there
Richmond Dispatch	4/10/1862; religious revival at Camp Winder
Richmond Dispatch	4/10/1862; List of the staff at Libby Prison [Turner, Emack, Warner, Higginbotham, Ross]. Also names officers commanding the guard. Notes that there were 724 inmates there yesterday, and more are coming in.
Richmond Dispatch	4/10/1862; Man escapes from the State Penitentiary
Richmond Dispatch	4/10/1862; list of Castle Godwin prisoners, confined since March 15
Richmond Dispatch	4/11/1862; letter from Mrs. Maria G. Clopton begging metals for Tredegar for gunboat construction. Mrs. George T. Booker on committee
Richmond Dispatch	4/11/1862; Government lithographers go on strike and are sent to Castle Godwin
Richmond Dispatch	4/11/1862; Gen. J. R. Anderson ad for male cook for field duty
Richmond Dispatch	4/12/1862; failed escape attempt at Castle Godwin
Richmond Dispatch	4/11/1862; Chimbo