|
Richmond
Examiner |
1/1/1864; New Year's dinner donations to Camp
Lee |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/1/1864; Mary, slave of Dr. F. W.
Hancock, attempts to escape |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/1/1864; large number of prisoners
admitted to Libby Prison, who were captured in the West |
|
Richmond
Whig |
1/1/1864; announcement of the
reception at Jefferson Davis' house from noon to 3, as well as the
inauguration of Gov. Smith at noon at the Capitol |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/2/1864; 500 prisoners from "McCurdy's tobacco
factory" have been removed to Belle Isle |
|
Richmond
Whig |
1/2/1864; detailed description of
the reception at Jefferson Davis' mansion |
|
Richmond
Whig |
1/2/1864; Gen. J. H. Morgan will
arrive in town soon and be conducted to the Spotswood Hotel |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/4/1864; more on Mary, Dr. F. W.
Hancock's slave |
|
Richmond
Whig |
1/4/1864; Gen. Morgan will probably
arrive tomorrow. Lodgings have been secured at the Ballard House |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/5/1864; Jas. Clifford stole a lot
of beef from Libby Prison, but for lack of witnesses was released |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/6/1864; Ladies of Union Station Methodist
Church furnished New Year's meal at Howard's Grove. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
1/6/1864; two soldiers tried for breaking into
a warehouse near Castle Thunder to steal "yankee clothing." |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
1/6/1864; Chimborazo and Winder
statistics |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/7/1864; guard at "the old U. S.
Hotel" is arrested for being drunk and disorderly in the streets |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/7/1864; George W. Johnson charges
that he has been illegally detained by James B. McCaw (Chimborazo Hospital) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
1/12/1864; owners of slaves working at GH#9 may
call for their payments |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
1/12/1864; escape from Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
1/12/1864; men and boys are skating
on the canal basin; notes that for this to occur, the freeze has been very
hard |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/13/1864; Texas, Alabama Hospitals, GH#10,
GH#11 permanently closed and patients moved to Howard's Grove. |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/16/1864; 18 yankees escape from building
across street from Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
1/16/1864; eighteen Yankee deserters
escape from the prison opposite Castle Thunder by cutting through the wall
into an adjacent commissary warehouse |
|
Richmond
Whig |
1/16/1864; description of pardons
handed out by Governor Smith, including several participants in the bread
riot |
|
Richmond
Whig |
1/18/1864; former proprietor of the
St. Charles Hotel was captured by the Yankees while procuring bacon, etc.
for the government |
|
Richmond
Whig |
1/18/1864; Gens. Hood, Breckinridge,
and Morgan visit the House of Representatives |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/19/1864; more on George W.
Johnson, illegally detained by Dr. McCaw. He was deemed to be exempt and
released |
|
Richmond
Whig |
1/19/1864; first weekly reception at
the President's house will occur tonight |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/20/1864; most of escapees from building
across street from Castle Thunder caught |
|
Richmond
Whig |
1/21/1864; one of the proprietors of
the Ballard House is very ill |
|
Richmond
Whig |
1/21/1864; large number of Castle
Thunder prisoners will be removed to Salisbury, N. C., under charge of the
Ambulance Corps |
|
Richmond
Whig |
1/21/1864; two Yankees who escaped
from Libby Prison tell a Chicago newspaper that they came upon some of the
Richmond fortifications on their way out and the guns were completely
unattended. They lament not being able to spike them. The Whig calls
for more people to man the guns |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/22/1864; an attempt to burn down
the White House of the Confederacy was foiled |
|
Richmond
Whig |
1/22/1864; Seven buildings burned at
Winder Hospital |
|
Richmond
Whig |
1/22/1864; the departure of Castle
Thunder prisoners was put off for a day due to a railroad "hitch." Notes
that one of the prisoners got out of his ball and chain |
|
Richmond
Whig |
1/22/1864; notes on the attempted
arson at the President's house after the reception |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/23/1864; buildings burned at
Winder Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
1/28/1864; fire at Chimborazo |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/28/1864; notes that the
Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal has been published |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
2/2/1864; poor conditions at Libby Prison
described |
|
Richmond
Whig |
2/10/1864; rumor of POW unrest at Belle Isle |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
2/11/1864; good description of the "great
escape" from Libby Prison. Castle Thunder mentioned. |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
2/11/1864; Libby Prison escape notice |
|
Richmond
Whig |
2/11/1864; Libby Prison escape notice |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
2/12/1864; Description of the Libby prison
breakout and list of escapees re-captured |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
2/12/1864; 22 Libby escapees re-captured and
description of the breakout |
|
Richmond
Whig |
2/12/1864; list of Libby escapees that have
been recaptured, and list of men still at large |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
2/13/1864; Recapturing Libby escapees, and list
of re-captured prisoners |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
2/13/1864; eight more Libby escapees
were brought back, making 30 so far recaptured |
|
Richmond
Whig |
2/13/1864; more escapees have been captured;
rumor that Streight has been recaptured |
|
New York
Times |
2/15/1864; Libby Prison escape notice |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
2/15/1864; recapturing Libby escapee anecdotes |
|
Richmond
Whig |
2/15/1864; recapturing Libby escapee anecdotes |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
2/15/1864; acquittal of Capt. Alexander (Castle
Thunder) |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
2/15/1864; list of Libby Prison escapees
recaptured |
| Richmond
Sentinel |
2/15/1864; Long Valentine's Day poem by patient
at Chimborazo. |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
2/15/1864; recapturing Libby escapee anecdotes |
|
Charleston Mercury |
2/16/1864; description of the Libby Prison
escape - includes a very good description of the physicality of the escape |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
2/16/1864; Two more Libby
escapees re-captured |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
2/16/1864; No more escapees from
Libby have been captured. |
|
Richmond
Whig |
2/16/1864; G. W. Alexander has been
acquitted by the board of inquiry that looked into his conduct at Castle
Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
2/17/1864; five more Libby escapees
were brought back (with names) |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
2/19/1864; "The Feeding of the Prisoners"
testimony from the butcher who supplied Chimborazo Hospital and Gen. Winder
(for prisoners) with meat - shoots down the idea that the prisoners are
inadequately supplied, while noting that they may not have gotten the best
beef |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
2/20/1864; Major General Scammon
and staff brought to Libby; 58 escapees have been recaptured |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
2/20/1864; details on status of
escaped Yankees from Libby Prison |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
2/20/1864; hospital list; temporary closing of
Winder, Howard's Grove, and General Hospital #1 |
|
Richmond
Whig |
2/22/1864; one of the Libby Prison
tunnel escapees was caught and re-committed to the prison |
|
Richmond
Whig |
2/22/1864; one of the soldiers from
the batteries below Richmond was accidentally shot while loading muskets
onto a wagon. He was taken to Seabrook's Hospital |
| Richmond
Enquirer |
2/23/1864; captured letter from prisoner at
Libby Prison Hospital (good conditions and treatment) |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
2/23/1864; more escapees from prison across
street from Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
2/23/1864; another jailbreak from
the prison opposite Castle Thunder - 22 escape, 16 recaptured. Says several
hundred deserters are held there, and gives a great physical description |
|
Franklin
Repository |
2/24/1864; "The Libby Jail Delivery" |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
2/24/1864; description of the fire
and explosion of the Confederate Coffee factory on Cary and 17th |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
2/24/1864; 400 Yankee prisoners from
Belle Isle are taken to Libby Prison to await transfer to Andersonville |
|
Richmond
Whig |
2/24/1864; lamentation that the
Confederate Government will not give the Alms House back to the city. Notes
that "Chimborazo, Camp Winder, Howard’s Grove, etc., afford ample room for
all the sick and wounded soldiers brought to this military department" and
if they fill up, there are many other places to put the patients |
|
Richmond
Whig |
2/25/1864; man committed to Castle
Thunder for piloting Averill on his raid |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
2/26/1864; prisoners at Libby receive a
gratuitous sermon |
|
Richmond
Whig |
2/26/1864; Bishop Lynch, of S. C.
preaches to the prisoners at Libby |
|
Richmond
Whig |
2/26/1864; robbery of a hogshead of
tobacco at the factory of David C. Mayo, corner 19th and Cary |
|
Richmond
Whig |
2/27/1864; list of Castle Thunder
(7) and Libby Prison (8) inmates sent off by special exchange, including a
woman found in men's clothes on Belle Isle, and a correspondent of the New
York Herald |
|
Richmond
Whig |
2/29/1864; bell at the first market
has cracked, which had given the fire alarm. Advocates the "bell house" at
Capitol Square do the job in the meantime |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/1/1864; two boys are injured after
being thrown from a horse and are treated by Surg. Read at the "Baptist
Institute Hospital." (GH4) |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/1/1864; 71 prisoners, captured by
Mosby, arrive at Libby Prison |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/1/1864; three men, who were caught
while attempting to go north, are taken to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/2/1864; accident at the Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/2/1864; detective killed by accident at
Castle Thunder; mentions "prisoners in the building across the street..." |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
3/2/1864; detective killed at "deserters'
prison" opposite Castle Thunder |
|
Charleston Mercury |
3/3/1864; account of Dahlgren's Raid - notes
the Armory Battalion engaging the enemy on the Westham road (Cary St.) and
that 171 prisoners have been received at Libby |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
3/3/1864; man drowns in canal opposite Libby
Prison |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
3/3/1864; list of wounded received at GH#9 |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/3/1864; detective mistakenly shot at Castle
Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/3/1864; Part two of account of the
repulse of Dahlgren's Raid. Indicates the Tredegar Battalion was responsible
for the repulse. Includes testimony from prisoners at Libby and praise of
Maj. T. P. Turner. Part one cannot be found at this time. |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/3/1864; Major Elias Griswold has
been relieved as Provost Marshal of Richmond, and sent to Americus, Ga.
Major I. Carrington succeeds him |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/3/1864; four of Hampton's
cavalrymen, injured at Atlee's, arrive at Seabrook's |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/3/1864; six negroes, recaptured
from the Yankees, are taken to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/3/1864; Mrs. Patterson Allen
(Yankee spy) is at St. Francis de Sales Hospital |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/3/1864; Detective Wooters, shot
accidentally at Castle Thunder, died yesterday |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/4/1864; correction: the Armory Battalion, not
the Tredegar Battalion, were responsible for repulsing Dahlgren's raiders |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/4/1864; 600 prisoners from Libby Prison have
been shipped off to Americus, GA (Andersonville) |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/4/1864; 600 Yankees prisoners at
Libby will be sent to Andersonville today, and the same number will be sent
off every other day |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
3/5/1864; account of the Dahlgren Raid and the
papers found on Dahlgren's body |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/5/1864; account of the papers found on Col.
Dahlgren's body with schedule and orders |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/5/1864; editorial concerning the Dahlgren
raid; advocates like treatment of Lincoln and prisoners |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/5/1864; 25 more of Dahlgren's raiders have
been received at Libby Prison |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/5/1864; boarding house of John Moncure Daniel
(editor of the Examiner) has been burglarized |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/7/1864; rumor of mutiny at Belle
Isle is false |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/8/1864; The body of Ulric Dahlgren has been
brought to Richmond - indicates that he was not exhibited, though the public
clamored for views |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/8/1864; a number of Yankee prisoners have
recently been exchanged |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/8/1864; the body of Col. Ulric
Dahlgren is on display at the York River depot; describes the corpse and
mentions that it was buried in an unknown place |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/8/1864; four Yankee negro soldiers
are brought to Libby Prison and put in the solitary cells |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/9/1864; One of Gen. Winder's
detectives (Cashmeyer) has been arrested while passing letters to a Yankee
prisoner on a flag of truce boat |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/9/1864; detective Cashmeyer
arrested for treason on a flag of truce boat while escorting Yankee prisoner
and put in Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/10/1864; female spy taken to
Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/10/1864; 260 prisoners from
Cumberland Gap arrive at Libby |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/10/1864; more details on Detective
Cashmeyer's case - he was not behaving treasonously, just stupidly. |
|
Lowell
Daily Courier |
3/11/1864; Rees photo of Libby Prison is on
display in Lowell, Mass. |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/11/1864; more on Cashmeyer's case |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/12/1864; Detective Cashmeyer is
released from Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/14/1864; Gen. Neal Dow and Capts.
Sawyer and Flynn have been sent North |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/14/1864; Cashemeyer was NOT
released from Castle Thunder, and will be court-martialed |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/14/1864; henhouse of Mr. John
Pearce, keeper of the Almshouse, was burglarized |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/15/1864; Cashmeyer has been
released from Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/16/1864; soldier at Battery No. 3
is arrested for stealing two trunks |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/16/1864; soldier dies in Castle
Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/17/1864; seventeen escaped
prisoners from Danville and Andersonville are recaptured and taken to Libby |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/17/1864; two Spotsylvania
men are taken to Castle Thunder under charge of piloting Kilpatrick on the
recent raid |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/19/1864; five guards at the
Arsenal are picked up while trying to get to the Yankee lines and are taken
to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/21/1864; soldier from Battery No.
4 drowns in the canal |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/21/1864; four Yankees escape from
Mayo's factory and are recaptured |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/21/1864; the papers found on
Dahlgren's body have been filed in the War Department |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/22/1864; 983 Yankees, including 63
officers, were sent off from Libby yesterday |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/23/1864; only 1800 prisoners left
in Richmond, the 12,000 who were here recently have been sent south or
exchanged. Encourages the government not to allow such an accumulation of
prisoners again |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/26/1864; Dahlgren's crutch is at
the Whig office |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/28/1864; boy is decapitated after
attempting to jump onto the Fredericksburg train on Broad street |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/28/1864; man caught stealing locks
at Hollywood Cemetery |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/29/1864; Detective Cashmeyer has
been reinstated, and a Detective who was in the Penitentiary for shooting a
woman has been pardoned by the Governor |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/29/1864; more on the lock-stealer
at Hollywood |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
3/30/1864; Libby and Belle Isle are nearly
empty |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/30/1864; more on the lock-stealer
at Hollywood |
|
Richmond
Whig |
3/31/1864; City Battalion (25th
Battn. Va. Inf.) have been sent to Chaffin's Farm. Now the 28th Va. Battn.
does the guard duty |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/2/1864; some defenders of Battery #9 charged
with theft |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/4/1864; man in the city jail fakes
small pox in order to be taken to Howard's Grove, thinking it would be
easier to escape from there, but is found out and taken back to jail |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/5/1864; Patient at Chimborazo maims himself
on Richmond and York River RR to escape service. |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/5/1864; Patient at Chimborazo maims himself
on Richmond and York River RR to escape service. |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/5/1864; Mr. Thomas W. Doswell has
been appointed Asst. Provost Marshal, succeeding G. W. Alexander |
|
Franklin (PA)
Repository |
4/6/1864; Gen. Neal Dow's assertion that Libby
Prison was mined during the Dahlgren raid |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/9/1864; notes on three new
soldiers confined in Castle Thunder with details of their transgressions |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/11/1864; three slaves and a free
negro arrested for stealing blankets from Seabrook's Hospital (GH#9) |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/12/1864; details on the recent
freshet on the James River - all the islands are flooded except Belle Isle |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/14/1864; prisoner shot by accident at Libby
Prison |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/14/1864; accidental shootings at Libby Prison |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/14/1864; Castle Thunder items |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/14/1864; Castle Thunder items |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/18/1864; Semple appointed Surgeon of Libby
Prison |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/18/1864; testimony about spies in Libby
Prison from escaped officer |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/18/1864; Dr. William Geo. Semple
has been appointed Surgeon of Libby prison, vice Dr. John Wilkins |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/18/1864; two workers at Tredegar
arrested for fighting |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/19/1864; "Lewis H. Fraysier’s
factory, on 20th street, between Main and Franklin" was burglarized |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/20/1864; man charged with petty
larceny for receiving stolen linens from Jackson Hospital |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/21/1864; small explosion occurred
in the percussion cap factory on Brown's Island |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/21/1864; explosion at the
Laboratory - percussion caps explode, but no one was injured |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/22/1864; Dr. Mary Walker, captured
in the west, arrives in Richmond (in male attire) and conveyed to Castle
Thunder, Libby having no female accommodations |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/22/1864; a deserter confined in
the "soldier's home" on 7th and Cary streets (probably the former Castle
Lightning) leaps out of a three story window, and escapes. He is recaptured
and sent to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/22/1864; Dr. Mary Walker arrives
in Richmond, and is taken to Castle Thunder. She is "about thirty years old
and quite ugly" |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
4/23/1864; 40 acre vegetable garden at Jackson
Hosp.; now library wanted |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/25/1864; 420 sick Yankees are sent
to Libby from Danville, being unable to travel to Andersonville |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/25/1864; 430 Yankee "invalids" not
thought strong enough to make the trip to Andersonville are brought to Libby |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/27/1864; 19 Yankee officers,
inlcluding Gen. Wessels, captured at Plymouth are brought to Libby Prison |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/28/1864; 31 Yankee deserters in
Castle Thunder say they want to go back to the North, and are moved to the
Libby Prison |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/28/1864; 31 Yankee deserters
desire to be considered prisoners of war and are taken from Castle Thunder
to Libby Prison |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/29/1864; order to clean out hospitals |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/29/1864; Richmond hospitals are
said to send all the patients to Petersburg, and to clean out all the
hospitals in preparation for the spring campaign |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/2/1864; "two or three" yankees escape from
Libby Prison |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/2/1864; Jefferson Davis's son
Joseph is killed in a fall from a balcony of the White House of the
Confederacy |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/2/1864; 380 paroled Confederates
arrive at Rocketts - officers are taken to the Officer's Hospital (GH#4) and
enlisted men are taken to Chimborazo |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/2/1864; Dr. Mary Walker's
appearance in Richmond causes quite an excitement - she is taken to Gen.
Winder's office, then to Castle Thunder. |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/2/1864; description of the death
of little Joseph Davis, son of Pres. Jefferson Davis, in a fall from a
balcony at the Confederate White House. |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/2/1864; 380 returned Confederate
prisoners arrive at Rocketts. The enlisted men are taken to Chimborazo
Hospital, and the officers are taken either to private quarters or the "Officers’
hospital (formerly the Baptist Institute, on 10th street, west of Marshall
street)" |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/2/1864; Mary Walker is marched
from Castle Thunder to Gen. Winder's office, still in male attire, and
creates quite a stir |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/2/1864; three prisoners escape
from Libby Prison |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/4/1864; 12,268 prisoners in the
Confederacy, including 1,943 at Libby Prison |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/5/1864; Seabrook's (GH#9) readied for arrival
of wounded |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/5/1864; 12,268 Yankee prisoners in
all the CSA; 1,943 are at Libby |
|
Charleston
Mercury |
5/6/1864; war news - describes (very visually)
the operations at Tredegar |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/7/1864; Seabrook's (GH#9) readied for arrival
of wounded |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/7/1864; bandages needed at GH#4 |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/7/1864; 78 prisoners at Castle Thunder sent
to Salisbury, NC |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/7/1864; rumor that 100 officers in Libby
Prison will be sent to Danville |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/7/1864; negro injured at Confederate States
Arsenal |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/7/1864; 1000 Yankee officers at Libby to be
sent to Danville |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/7/1864; slave of Jas. H. Grant is
seriously injured in an accident at the Arsenal |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/9/1864; mutinous episode in Libby Prison |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/9/1864; Gen. Leroy Stafford has died at
General Hospital #4 |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/11/1864; 879 wounded have arrived at GH#9 |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/11/1864; 113 Yankee prisoners arrive; only 29
officers in Libby |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/12/1864;
Forty-four Yankee officers and 891 Yankee
soldiers from the V Corps arrive in the city. Some are recognized as having
been on Belle Isle in 1862 by "Lieut. Shihn, Assistant Provost Marshal in
this city, who once had charge of them on Belle Isle." |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
5/13/1864; describes Richmond during the Battle
of Drewry's Bluff - notes on the admission procedures for the wounded and
gives numbers admitted; notes on the hospitals for various states |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/13/1864; 33 wounded officers at GH#4
including Gen. Gordon |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/13/1864; more wounded arriving at GH#9 and
Howard's Grove |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/13/1864; 53 Yankees, including 1 officer,
arrive at Libby Prison |
| Richmond
Sentinel |
5/13/1864; Belle Isle described briefly |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/13/1864; 26 soldiers arrive at
Seabrook's Hospital |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/13/1864; eleven Confederate
officers, including Brig. Gen. Gordon, arrive at the "officers' hospital"
(GH4) |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/13/1864; 183 Yankee cavalrymen are
captured in the "northern suburbs" of the city and taken to the Libby
Prison. Includes one negro, and one surgeon |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/13/1864; death notice of Gen. J.
E. B. Stuart |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/14/1864; description of the
funeral of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart and interment in Hollywood Cemetery; gives
list of pall-bearers, including Pres. Davis, many generals, and members of
Congress |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/14/1864; fifty prisoners arrive at
Libby |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/16/1864; Yankee shot at Pemberton's warehouse |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/16/1864; Ten prisoners arrive at Libby
Prison; the bulk of prisoner's from the Army of the Potomac are going
straight to Lynchburg |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/16/1864; "Idlers" will no longer be allowed
to visit the hospitals |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/16/1864; 1300 wounded arrive at Seabrook's
warehouse (GH#9) |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/16/1864; Yankee wounded are being treated at
General Hospital #21 |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/16/1864; "The Winder Guards," a unit made up
of prisoners from Castle Thunder are on duty "at the front" |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/17/1864; Howard's Grove, Winder, Jackson, and
Receiving (GH#9) Hospitals need nurses |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/17/1864; nurses needed for Howard's Grove,
Winder, & Jackson hospitals |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/17/1864; foreigners who refuse to do military
duty are confined in Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/17/1864; list of hospitals in Richmond and to
which hospitals soldiers from the various states are sent |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/17/1864; list of 14 officers
captured at Drewry's Bluff (including General Heckman) who were brought to
Libby yesterday |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/17/1864; while men are manning the
defenses, Howard's Grove, Jackson, Winder, and the Receiving Hospital
(Seabrook's) need ladies or servants to serve as nurses |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/17/1864; dispatches from the
Battle of New Market, describing the VMI cadets' role in the battle there |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/18/1864; sights and sounds at GH#21 (cries &
groans of distress) |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/19/1864; 1300 Yankees arrive at Richmond; two
Yankee surgeons assigned to General Hospital #21 |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/19/1864; list of wounded officers at General
Hospital #4 |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/19/1864; over 1100 Yankees
captured on the southside had come into Libby as of last night |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
5/20/1864; Seabrook's (GH#9) is in bad
condition |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/20/1864; Yankee colonel who
arrived at Libby was wearing bullet-proof armor. |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/20/1864; General Gordon dies at the Officer's
Hospital (GH#4) |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/20/1864; Gen. Gordon dies at the
officers' hospital. Misidentified as J. B. Gordon. |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/21/1864; 4,419 admitted to GH#9 between 5/6 &
5/20 |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/21/1864; 300 prisoners in Castle Thunder,
from the "Winder Legion" will be released |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/21/1864; William Carrington
advertises for the services of qualified physicians in all the hospitals in
Virginia |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/21/1864; seven VMI cadets have
died to date after the Battle of New Market |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
5/23/1864; Castle Thunder admittances; several
Libby guards confined |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/23/1864; list of Yankee officers in the Libby
Prison hospital; notes that there are 85 prisoners currently in Libby |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/23/1864; stable of Dr. F. W.
Hancock is set afire, but extinguished before any damage could be done |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/24/1864; appeal for rags to be sent to Winder
Hospital |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
5/24/1864; several new hospitals for prisoners
opened, 800 patients in them now and increasing |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/25/1864; VMI cadets parade at Capitol Square
following the Battle of New Market |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/25/1864; VMI cadets arrive in Richmond and
parade in Capitol Square and hear speeches from Governor Smith and President
Davis |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/25/1864; wounded prisoners at GH#21, Ross
Factory, & 2nd Alabama |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/25/1864; VMI cadets parade in
Capitol Square and are reviewed by President Davis. Afterwards, they listen
to a speech from Governor Smith |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/26/1864; Castle Thunder admittances |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/26/1864; VMI cadets were quartered
at Camp Lee before being put under Brig. Gen. Custis Lee's command and given
new uniforms by the Secretary of War |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/26/1864; praise of Chimborazo,
Winder, Jackson and Howard’s Grove Hospitals, and states that there is ample
space in those hospitals to accommodate any contingency; criticizes an
unnamed hospital for lack of attention to patients |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/28/1864; VMI cadets parade and receive a new
stand of colors |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/28/1864; total number of prisoners registered
at Libby Prison since July 1861 is ninety-seven thousand |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/28/1864; The Winder Legion, a unit comprised
of prisoners from Castle Thunder, has acquitted itself well in the field;
Davis granted them amnesty, and they are now seeking permanent status |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/28/1864; Second-class militia detailed to
guard prisons and hospitals while regulars are in the field |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/28/1864; VMI cadets parade and receive a new
stand of colors |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/28/1864; VMI cadets parade in
Capitol Square and receive a new Virginia flag from Governor Smith and Gen.
Bragg |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/30/1864; 157 prisoners admitted to Libby
Prison |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/30/1864; 157 prisoners admitted to Libby
Prison |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/30/1864; AAG for Gen. Bragg inspects Libby
Prison and Castle Thunder and finds them pleasing |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/31/1864; Confederate deserter (4th VA Cav,
Co. A) found amongst the prisoners at Libby Prison |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/31/1864; 1100 POWs from Libby are to be sent
to Andersonville |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/31/1864; man from Lynchburg taken
to Castle Thunder, charged with being a spy |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/31/1864; slave of Dr. Hancock
drowns in Shockoe Creek |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/1/1864; "What is Belle Isle Kept Up For?" |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/1/1864; 200 prisoners admitted to
Libby Prison |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/1/1864; 200 prisoners, taken at
Atlee's, were brought to Libby yesterday |
|
Richmond
Whig |
6/1/1864; 200 Yankee prisoners from
Totopotomoy Creek arrive at Libby |
|
Richmond
Whig |
6/2/1864; Dr. J. J. Gravatt thanks
several ladies for contributions to Seabrook's Hospital |
|
Richmond
Whig |
6/2/1864; tobacco factories on Main
and Franklin near Church Hill have been re-occupied as prisons, and the
guards are forcing people off the sidewalk. Major Turner puts a stop to this
practice |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/2/1864; 700 Yankees in GH21;
"Ligon's factory" opened to handle the excess numbers |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/2/1864; 10 prisoners released
from Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/2/1864; deaths in the Richmond
hospitals is (percentage wise) less than it was during the seven days
battles |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/3/1864; description of the Battle
of Cold Harbor through June 2. |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
6/3/1864; Stuart Hospital opened |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/3/1864; Stuart Hospital opened
yesterday |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/3/1864; 275 prisoners received at
Libby Prison |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/3/1864; 100 wounded brought in
and distributed among the hospitals |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/4/1864; description of the the
Battle of Cold Harbor, through June 3. |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/4/1864; description of the the
Battle of Cold Harbor, through June 3. |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/4/1864; the remains of Colonel
Keitt, 20th SC Infantry, who was killed on June 1 were taken to the Danville
depot for transportation to South Carolina |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/4/1864; city was awakened by the
sounds of the Battle of Cold Harbor yesterday; gives general description of
the battle; estimates at least 10,000 Union casualties and very slight
Confederate casualties |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/4/1864; new arrivals at Castle
Thunder, including one supposedly insane man |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/4/1864; 800 Yankee wounded are in
Richmond |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/4/1864; appeal for citizens to
send supplies to the hospitals, which are lacking greatly |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/4/1864; description of the
funeral of a member of the Fayette Artillery, who was killed at Cold Harbor,
and his interment in Hollywood Cemetery |
|
Richmond
Whig |
6/4/1864; 706 prisoners, including
12 officers, arrive at Libby from Gen. Early's lines |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
6/7/1864; Dog-catchers round up
hundreds of stray dogs; mentions Capt. Alexander's dog, and Howard's Grove. |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/7/1864; Dog-catchers round up
hundreds of stray dogs |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/7/1864; call for Virginians to
take in furloughed patients |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/7/1864; many patients in hospitals
cannot be furloughed because their homes are in Yankee hands; those along
the canal are requested to take them. |
|
Richmond
Whig |
6/7/1864; details on a woman who
told "Beast" Butler that Mayor Mayo had been thrown into Castle Thunder
(false rumor) |
|
Richmond
Whig |
6/7/1864; "three car-loads" of
Yankees arrive from Cold Harbor |
|
Charleston
Mercury |
6/8/1864; description of the Battle of Cold
Harbor - notes that the sounds of battle could clearly be heard in Richmond |
|
Richmond
Whig |
6/8/1864; How wounded are treated
at Winder Hospital |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/8/1864; wounded Yankee officer
dies at the Libby Prison hospital |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/9/1864; 1100 prisoners shipped to
Andersonville yesterday; Gen. Winder ordered there; Libby Prison will be the
receiving depot for prisoners taken north of Richmond, with their
destination being Andersonville |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/9/1864; More prisoners received
at Libby Prison |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/9/1864; persons shirking duty are
sent to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
6/9/1864; six Yankee prisoners
arrive at Libby |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
6/10/1864; Dr. Mary Walker,
prisoner in Castle Thunder, wants to go home |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/11/1864; 1100 wounded and sick
Yankee prisoners at GH21 |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
6/11, 13/1864; Oakwood cemetery is
described very negatively |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
6/13/1864; ex-prisoner at Castle
Thunder, member of the Arsenal Battalion, deserts to enemy near Bottom's
Bridge |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/13/1864; letters and goodies for
the Tredegar and Departmental battalions should be left at Mr. Tanner's
office (address given) |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/13/1864; some of Sheridan's
captured men arrive via canal packet. "Ten or fifteen" prisoners from Lee's
front arrive at Libby. |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/15/1864; revival is afoot in the
City Battalion [25th VA Battn] |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/15/1864; details of three new
inmates at Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
6/15/1864; Account of editorial
visit to Winder Hospital |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
6/16/1864; Good description of Winder Hospital |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/16/1864; brief notice of the
burning of VMI buildings at Lexington. Cadets are presently at "Rope Ferry,
Balcony Falls" |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/17/1864; few inmates in Libby Prison - most
of them are being sent south to Andersonville as fast as they come in |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/17/1864; describes the beneficial use of
tobacco warehouses as prisons and hospitals to the Confederacy |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/17/1864; few new prisoners at Castle Thunder,
list of those who have been admitted recently |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/17/1864; Thirty Yankee prisoners arrive at
Libby |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/17/1864; two soldiers are taken to
Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/17/1864; soldier from Cutts'
artillery committed to Castle Thunder for stabbing a member of his company |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/18/1864; description of what Richmond has
given up as the Confederate capital |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/18/1864; ice for the hospitals is now in
abundance |
|
Richmond
Whig |
6/18/1864; former barracks of the
City Battalion, at Canal and 8th, is fast becoming a ruin |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/21/1864; more wounded arrive at GH#9 |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/21/1864; Describes conditions at Chimborazo |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/22/1864; Robert Hitchcock accused of stealing
opium & quinine from Chimborazo |
|
Richmond
Whig |
6/22/1864; Robert Hitchcock accused of stealing
opium & quinine from Chimborazo |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/22/1864; Libby Prison is now recording the
country of origin of prisoners |
| Richmond
Whig |
6/22/1864; Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/23/1864; Confederate deserter (former Lt.
Col. of 18th TN) is found amongst Yankees at Libby Prison |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/23/1864; Ladies bearing food and goodies are
turned away from Stuart Hospital and demand an explanation |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/23/1864; 20-30 prisoners arrive at Libby with
2 officers |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/24/1864; explanation from surgeon in charge
of Stuart Hospital as to why ladies were refused admittance |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/24/1864; boys are throwing stones
at the Washington and Clay monuments and each other. The mayor clamps down
and orders all offenders arrested. Brief description of a rock battle
between boys on Gamble's and Penitentiary hills |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/24/1864; operative at Tredegar is
arrested for stealing nails |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/24/1864; Gen. Smith of VMI says
that the Institute's buildings were not much damaged, and many of the
academic apparatus was saved |
|
Richmond
Whig |
6/24/1864; Tredegar operative
charged with stealing nails |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/25/1864; 676 enlisted prisoners and 67
officers arrive at Libby Prison; list of some of the more prominent officers |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/25/1864; Mary Jenkins, nurse at Howard's
Grove, found street wandering. |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/27/1864; 3000 prisoners arrive in Richmond,
Libby is full and Belle Isle has been reopened |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/27/1864; No more flag of truce steamers will
be allowed |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/27/1864; insolent Yankee POW struck (and
knocked out) for making a slur upon a Richmond lady |
|
Richmond
Whig |
6/27/1864; slave arrested for
burglary at "Old Fairgrounds Hospital" (Stuart Hospital) |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/28/1864; over 4,000 prisoners in Richmond,
but not one arrived at Libby yesterday |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/28/1864; Army Intelligence Office has
whereabouts of sick and wounded |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/29/1864; description of boxing match at
Castle Thunder and reception of new prisoners |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/29/1864; Details of the imprisonment of Dr.
Mary Walker in Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/29/1864; member of detail escorting prisoners
to Libby Prison is too polite to the prisoners |
|
Richmond
Whig |
6/29/1864; negro arrested for having
a stolen shoulder of bacon from Jackson hospital. Says he got it from the
cook there, who was named. Also, other negroes arrested for stealing
supplies from the Medical Purveyor's Department |
|
Richmond
Whig |
6/29/1864; a lady has been
fraudulently seeking contributions for Chimborazo Hospital; the hospital
needs no money - they have plenty of funds |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/30/1864; notes that no money is taken from
the prisoners at Castle Thunder - the quartermaster keeps it for them |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/30/1864; Mortality in Richmond hospitals is
remarkably small |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/30/1864; Cage items; notes that no new
criminals are being brought in |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/30/1864; the canal basin is nasty - if it is
drained, murdered corpses are likely to be found |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
6/30/1864; hilarious account of a "fistic
scene." |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/30/1864; two Yankee deserters
arrive at Fort Drewry |
|
Richmond
Whig |
6/30/1864; 2 negroes whipped for
stealing meat from Jackson Hospital |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/1/1864; Belle Isle has been re-opened as a
prison |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/1/1864; Sutler's post at Castle Thunder has
been abolished |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/1/1864; house of "ill fame" is
broken up by police. Women there "exposed their persons in the windows, and
halloed at, threw at and spit upon all passers by." |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/2/1864; "Fatal Accident" of a slave belonging
to Dr. Thomas Burton |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/2/1864; Slave of Dr. Tomas Burton
is killed by falling into a well |
|
New York
Herald |
7/4/1864; war news - notes the destruction
(during Hunter's Shenandoah Valley raid) of the Virginia Military Institute
and a branch of the Tredegar Iron Works at Buchanan |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/5/1864; Richmond prisons, except Castle
Thunder and Belle Isle, are nearly empty |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/5/1864; No new admittees at the cage |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/5/1864; Surgeon General is going to diminish
the number of hospitals, because few patients are remaining in the
hospitals; the good condition is accredited to the abundance of ice |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/6/1864; attempted escape from "Palmer's
building, opposite Castle Thunder" |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/6/1864; detail of operation by a surgeon at
Chimborazo |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/6/1864; notes on federal
deserters in Castle Thunder; 68 federal deserters moved from Castle Thunder
to Libby Prison |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/6/1864; two boys are accidentally
killed while playing with an unexploded shell at Yellow Tavern |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/7/1864; Chimborazo patients
caught in a "disorderly house" |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/7/1864; two Chimborazo patients
caught in a "house of ill-fame" in Rocketts |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/8/1864; Belle Isle is once again
uninhabited - all the prisoners have been sent south; hostages and special
prisoners are kept at Libby |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/8/1864; few new arrivals to the
military prisons |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/8/1864; Praise that "the military
authorities have determined to give passports to all the old women who may
wish to go to Yankee land" because there is a "superabundance" of them |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/9/1864; five workmen at Tredegar
are captured while attempting to escape to the Yankees and are put in Castle
Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/9/1864; five operatives at the
Tredegar Iron Works are caught while attempting to go over to the Yankees
and are taken to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/13/1864; "William F. Corkley,
proprietor of the Spotswood Hotel" is arrested for violating the anti-liquor
law by selling brandy in the bar of the hotel |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/14/1864; escape attempt at Libby
Prison |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/15/1864; rumor of Chimborazo in
flames is not true - the fire is in the country |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/15/1864; very few prisoners left
in Richmond; they have been forwarded to Andersonville |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/15/1864; "particular class" of
prisoner from Castle Thunder will be sent to Salisbury, NC |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/18/1864; man arrested for trying
to make purchases in the name of Chimborazo hospital. McCaw testifies that
he was not associated with the hospital. Worker at the Spotswood hotel
arrested for selling whiskey at the bar, but released. |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/18/1864; man fraudulently attempts
to buy supplies for Chimborazo Hospital |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/18/1864; the anti-liquor law case
of William F. Corkley, proprietor of the Spotswood Hotel, is dismissed |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/19/1864; John J. Lindsay,
arrested for falsely claiming that he was the agent for Chimborazo, proves
that he is (or was) and is released |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/19/1864; 20 prisoners arrive at
Libby, but no officers |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/19/1864; more on the case of
Lindsay, the man who attempted to buy supplies in the name of Chimborazo
Hospital; McCaw denies that he was working for the hospital, but Lindsay
produces papers that gains him his release |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/19/1864; department at Castle
Thunder is reserved for "depraved
and abandoned women" |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/20/1864; female spy is received at
Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/20/1864; attractive female spy is
committed to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/21/1864; Dr. O. F. Manson's house
was broken into by a slave and robbed of 400 pounds of bacon |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/22/1864; slave charged with
breaking into the home of Dr. O. F. Manson [GH24] and stealing a lot of
bacon. |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/23/1864; slave who broke into Dr.
O. F. Manson's house was released |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/26/1864; Dr. Mary Walker is taken
to Gen. Gardner's office, desiring to be released |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/26/1864; notes on Dr. Mary Walker
parading the streets, on the way to Gen. Gardner's office seeking a parole.
Also remarks on her lack of good looks and elicit correspondence while here |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/28/1864; notice that John Van Lew
has deserted to the Yankees |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/29/1864; Detective Boyd has been
thrown in Castle Thunder for trying to bribe another detective not to
mention that he had seen a prominent member of the treasury department go
into a faro bank [probably R. C. Elmore] |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/29/1864; excellent paragraph on
the severe beating of a negro Arsenal worker by the foreman of the Smith
Shop there for stealing copper. Gives interesting statements regarding the
treatment of negroes |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/29/1864; more details on the
desertion of John Van Lew - notes that he vanished near Studley, during the
Battle of Cold Harbor |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/30/1864; a Castle Thunder escapee
and a Yankee deserter are both committed to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/2/1864; boy is arrested for
stealing pig iron from Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/3/1864; boy caught stealing pig
iron from Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/3/1864; boy caught stealing pig
iron from Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
8/4/1864; appeal to move all sick
prisoners to Belle Isle |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
8/4/1864; North Carolina Soldiers'
Home is at the old Union hotel; surgeon from GH#24 is in charge of relief
assn. |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
8/4/1864; 53 prisoners at Castle
Thunder have been sent to Salisbury, N. C. |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/5/1864; items from the Mayor's
docket: two negro girls are thrashed for calling a white man "poor white
trash;" a boy escapee from the Alms House is sent back there after stoning a
man at the Petersburg depot |
| Richmond
Whig |
8/8/1864; General Hospital #1
Described. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/9/1864; NC sends $15,000 for NC soldiers at
Winder |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/10/1864; wounded negroes from Burnside's
Corps sent to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/10/1864; 90 wounded prisoners,
including a dozen negro soldiers, arrive at Libby. Gives negative commentary
on the negro troops' appearance and smell. |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/12/1864; steamer Allison is making
daily trips to and from Drewry's Bluff |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/12/1864; member of the Crenshaw
battery committed to Castle Thunder for "desertion, robbery and attempting
to shoot some one" |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/13/1864; boy acquitted for
stealing pig iron from Tredegar |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/16/1864; man who fell from a third
floor window at the Spottswood has a fair chance of recovery |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/17/1864; a duel was fought
yesterday between John M. Daniel of the Richmond Examiner, and R. C.
Elmore, of the Treasury department. Daniel was wounded in the right leg
|
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/17/1864; description of the duel
between J. M. Daniel and E. C. Elmore |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/18/1864; details of the trail of
R. C. Elmore, for duelling with J. M. Daniel. Dr. Peticolas, the physician
at the duel, refuses to testify on the grounds that he might incriminate
himself. Counsel gets a change of venue because the duel was fought in
Henrico, not in the city. |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/18/1864; description of the duel
examination before the Mayor - mentions Dr. Peticolas' protest |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/19/1864; more details on the
Daniel/Elmore duel |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/20/1864; horse of Gov. Smith dies
of lockjaw in Capitol Square, after attempting to jump a fence |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/22/1864; more details on the
recent duel - Dr. Peticolas continues to refuse to testify |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/22/1864; alleged spy from the
Maryland line and a free negro are committed to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/22/1864; more details of the
Daniel/Elmore duel in a Henrico court - Dr. Peticolas refuses to testify |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/22/1864; Maryland soldier and free
negro committed to Castle Thunder, the latter on charge of piloting Hunter
in Amherst county, and the former for being a spy |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/26/1864; 80 negro POWs, taken at
the Battle of the Crater, are brought to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/27/1864; four men shot trying to escape Belle
Isle |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/27/1864; five men shot while
trying to escape from Belle Isle on successive nights |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/29/1864; arsonist torches the
stable of John M. Daniel |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/29/1864; more details on the
recent duel - Dr. Peticolas continues to refuse to testify and is
recommended to be held in contempt of court |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/29/1864; more details of the
Daniel/Elmore duel trial - including Dr. Peticolas' refusal to testify |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/29/1864; fire at the stables of J.
M. Daniel |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/30/1864; more details on the
recent duel - Dr. Peticolas continues to refuse to testify after being
ordered to do so and is thrown in jail |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/30/1864; Dr. Peticolas is declared
to be "bound to testify" in the Daniel/Elmore duel trial |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/31/1864; details on the habeas
corpus case of Dr. Peticolas' refusal to testify |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/31/1864; shell explodes in a
foundry in rear of the War Department building (Mechanics' Institute) |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/31/1864; more on Dr. Peticolas'
refusal to testify in the case of the Daniel/Elmore duel |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
9/1/1864; Dr. Peticolas is out on
bail awaiting Judge's decision on his refusal to testify |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
9/1/1864; half of the Exchange Hotel
will be used as a soldiers' home for the soldiers from Louisiana |
|
Richmond
Whig |
9/1/1864; more on Dr. Peticolas'
habeas corpus case over his refusal to testify in the Daniel/Elmore duel
case |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
9/3/1864; Judge determines that Dr.
Peticolas is not bound to testify and he is released |
|
Richmond
Whig |
9/3/1864; man charged with stealing
hogs from the "almshouse hospital" (GH1) |
|
Richmond
Whig |
9/3/1864; Dr. Peticolas is declared
not bound to testify, and is released |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
9/5/1864; more details of the trail
of R. C. Elmore, for duelling with J. M. Daniel. |
|
Richmond
Whig |
9/5/1864; more on the Daniel/Elmore
duel case |
|
Richmond
Whig |
9/9/1864; Ballard House will soon
be reopened |
|
Richmond
Whig |
9/9/1864; Man sent to Castle
Thunder for being a spy and recruiting negroes for federal service |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
9/10/1864; former keeper of "the
Rebel House," under the Exchange Hotel and a free negro escape from Castle
Thunder and are recaptured |
|
Richmond
Whig |
9/10/1864; two Castle Thunder
escapees caught |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
9/15/1864; Gen. Morgan's remains
will arrive in the city soon and be taken to the State Capitol to lie in
state, and then be buried at Hollywood until Kentucky can take him home |
|
Richmond
Whig |
9/15/1864; free negro charged with
stealing linens from Stuart Hospital, released after it was found that the
Steward of the hospital had already administered a "thrashing" |
|
Richmond
Whig |
9/15/1864; E. C. Elmore pleads
guilty for betting at faro |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
9/17/1864; description of Gen.
Morgan's body lying in state in the Capitol, and burial at Hollywood |
|
Richmond
Whig |
9/17/1864; description of the
arrival of Gen Morgan's remains via the Danville train, their lying in state
in the Capitol building and burial in Hollywood cemetery |
|
Richmond
Whig |
9/17/1864; Rev. George Patterson of
the Episcopal Church, officiated at Gen. Morgan's funeral |
|
New York
Herald |
9/19/1864; notes from an informer on the
condition of Lee's Army, the Richmond defenses, feeling against Jefferson
Davis, and conditions in Richmond - notes the railroads are very poor |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
9/19/1864; an employee of the
Arsenal named Taylor, along with two others, are captured while going to the
enemy. Taylor is placed in Castle Thunder, the others released |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
9/19/1864; train guards will be
examining passes, and none without proper papers will be allowed to pass
through Richmond |
|
Charleston
Mercury |
9/20/1864; editorial notation describing the
utilization of prisoners from Libby as laborers - questions whether this can
be expanded (copied from the Richmond Examiner) |
|
Richmond
Whig |
9/24/1864; member of the City
Battalion is shot on 17th street, and taken to Seabrook's Hospital |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
9/26/1864; man falls from a fifth
story window of the Spotswood Hotel and is killed |
|
Richmond
Whig |
9/26/1864; man falls from a fifth
story window of the Spotswood Hotel and is killed |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
9/27/1864; Hospital "rats" at
Winder Hospital suspected of crimes |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
9/28/1864; locomotive traveling up
the connector track on 8th street, gets out of control near the Spotswood
and falls back down into the canal bridge |
|
Richmond
Whig |
9/28/1864; locomotive traveling up
the connector track on 8th street, gets out of control near the Spotswood
and falls back down into the canal bridge |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
9/29/1864; praise for the
Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/3/1864; Mr. Harvie, President of
the Richmond and Danville Railroad, collides with an oncoming train while
operating a handcar in Manchester and is injured |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/4/1864; 1500 Yankee POWs
(including 58 officers) arrive at Libby; 1114 POWS sent to Salisbury
yesterday |
|
Richmond
Whig |
10/5/1864; fight among patients at Stuart
Hospital |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/5/1864; member of 3rd S.C. knifes a patient
at Stuart Hospital and sent to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
10/10/1864; 10,100 received at GH#9 July -
Sept. |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/10/1864; brief paragraph
describing the burial of General Gregg in Hollywood |
|
Richmond
Whig |
10/10/1864;
description of the funeral of Gen. John
Gregg, of Texas, and procession from the Capitol to Hollywood Cemetery. |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/12/1864; two stewards on Belle
Isle were before the Mayor for stealing government grease from the Belle
Isle kitchens; they were released |
|
Athens (GA)
Southern Banner |
10/19/1864; excellent description of the
Georgia Hospital & Relief Association and their operations in Richmond.
Notes that St. Charles Hotel is used as a wayside home for traveling Georgia
soldiers |
|
Richmond
Whig |
10/22/1864; 10/24/1864; 10/26/1864; 11/25/1864
- murder of a little boy by a nurse at General Hospital #9 |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/22/1864; murder of a little boy
near Seabrook's hospital by a nurse at the hospital |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/24/1864; more on the Seabrook's
hospital murder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
10/24/1864;
1400 enlisted men and 37 officers, captured
by Early in the Valley, are brought to Libby Prison |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/25/1864; six Irish conscripts
arrested while attempting to get to Yankee lines and put in Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/25/1864; a deserter from the 28th
Alabama is arrested while in Yankee uniform and put in Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/25/1864; steamer Schultz has been
refitted and will resume trips down the river |
|
Richmond
Whig |
10/25/1864;
Luther Libby's family have gone North, but
soon to return |
|
Richmond
Whig |
10/25/1864; steamer Schultz has
been rebuilt, and will resume trips to and from Drewry's Bluff |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/26/1864; man charged with the
shooting of little boy at Seabrook's is sent on for trial |
|
Richmond
Whig |
10/26/1864;
two men caught trying to "cut their way out"
of Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/27/1864; negro boy is killed
after trying to jump on to the Fredericksburg train on Broad street; appeal
for this practice to be stopped |
|
Richmond
Whig |
10/27/1864;
negro boy is killed after trying to jump on
to the Fredericksburg train on Broad street; appeal for this practice to be
stopped |
|
Richmond
Whig |
10/29/1864;
700 Yankees arrive at Libby Prison |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/31/1864; two females who had been
serving for two years under Gen. Early were found out and put in Castle
Thunder; details on two other prisoners: one male slave and one white female |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/31/1864; man attempts an escape
while being taken to Castle Thunder and is shot and killed |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/31/1864; 400 prisoners, including
Brig. Gen. Duffy, arrive at Libby Prison |
|
Richmond
Whig |
10/31/1864;
two women, masquerading as soldiers, brought
to Castle Thunder. They had served with General Early for two years |
|
Richmond
Whig |
10/31/1864;
female spy from Isle of Wight is brought to
Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
10/31/1864;
man shot and killed while trying to escape
from the guards who were taking him to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
10/31/1864; 400 Yankee prisoners,
including General Dufie, are brought to Libby Prison |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/1/1864; details on the
killing of the soldier who tried to escape while being taken to Castle
Thunder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/1/1864; dead man found
floating in the Canal Basin, near the Gallego mills - body had been in
the body a week or more |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/1/1864; deserter taken
from Castle Thunder and shot in the presence of Fields' Division. He was
from the 4th Alabama and had been recaptured in Yankee uniform |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/1/1864; praise for the
little steamer Parker, which makes excursions to Chaffin's and Drewry's
Bluff |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/2/1864; Chimborazo
hospital was thought to be on fire - the fire was actually in the
country |
|
Richmond
Whig |
11/2/1864;
"between four and five hundred" prisoners
brought to Libby Prison |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/5/1864; Wm., slave of Sally Tompkins charged
with burglary |
|
Richmond
Whig |
11/5/1864;
slave of Sally Tompkins arrested for
burglary |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/7/1864; two boys
arrested near the Second Baptist Church for throwing rocks. They are members
of the "basin cats." |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/8/1864; stable
attached to Libby Prison was burnt down |
|
Richmond
Whig |
11/8/1864;
Libby Prison stable burns down |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
11/9/1864; fire at the Libby Prison stables |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/10/1864; details on
three recent Castle Thunder inmates |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/11/1864; detective
Caphart, "one of the detectives attached to the Castle Thunder prison"
died yesterday |
|
Richmond
Whig |
11/11/1864;
Detective Caphart, "one of the police of
Castle Thunder," dies |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/12/1864; VMI will
commence its term starting Dec. 1 at the Alms House; all faculty and
cadets requested to report at that time |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/12/1864; order from
Superintendent of VMI for cadets and faculty to report to the Alms House
for the next term, and details financial arrangements |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/12/1864; NC woman
committed to Castle Thunder for being a suspicious character |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/12/1864; personal ad
to Luther Libby, who is now a prisoner at Fort Delaware |
|
Richmond
Whig |
11/12/1864;
good-looking woman put in Castle Thunder as
a "suspicious character" |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/14/1864; three workers
from Tredegar arrested while attempting to go over to the enemy and are
put in Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Whig |
11/14/1864; employees of Tredegar Iron Works
jailed for desertion |
|
Richmond
Whig |
11/14/1864;
two workers at Tredegar captured while going
to Yankee lines |
|
Richmond Enquirer |
11/15/1864; great description of the operation
of the Ordnance Department - mentions the Arsenal at length |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/15/1864; car shed for
the Danville railroad burns up, along with ten railroad cars.
|
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/21/1864; Three people
(one of whom was a Tredegar worker) arrested on Williamsburg road for
attempting to go to the enemy. They said they were going to visit
friends at Chaffin's Bluff |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/21/1864; one of the
"street guards" who checks papers was arrested and sent to Castle
Thunder for letting a person escape |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/23/1864; description and list of staff at
Seabrook's Hospital (GH#9) |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/24/1864; small explosion at
Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Whig |
11/24/1864;
one white man and three negroes were killed
by the accidental explosion of shells at Tredegar |
|
Richmond
Whig |
11/29/1864; 14 patients arrested
for gambling at Winder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/29/1864; Gambling arrests at
Winder |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
12/5/1864; Vice President
Stephens is at the Spottswood |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
12/5/1864; VMI Board of
Visitors approves the occupation of the Alms House, and city agrees to
rent it to them |
| Richmond
Whig |
12/5/1864; Letter to editor
concerning General Hospital #1's efficiency |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
12/12/1864; a conductor
on the Fredericksburg railroad is shot by a criminal and dies at the
"officers’ hospital (City Alms House)." Gives a list of the doctors who
treated him |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
12/18/1864; Alms House
rented to VMI for $15,000 a year |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
12/21/1864; details on
two new Castle Thunder inmates; one a "Yankee deserter" who is really a
soldier from the 21st Miss., and the other a patient at Jackson Hospital
who is charged with larceny |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
12/24/1864; man brought
to trial for stealing nitre from the laboratory; four boys sentenced for
stealing iron from the Old Dominion Iron Works on Belle Isle |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
12/31/1864; prisoner at Libby killed in
accident |
|
Richmond
Whig |
12/31/1864;
prisoner at Libby accidentally killed by
"the accidental explosion of a musket" while the inspector was examining it
in the basement of Libby |
