Richmond
Sentinel |
3/11/1863; "Richmond
will be thus well prepared with means to prevent destructive conflagrations"
with the new fire engine donated to the city by various insurance companies |
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/14/1863; Colonel Quantrell is in Richmond,
and staying at the Spotswood Hotel |
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/16/1863; description and details of the
Brown's Island Confederate Laboratory explosion |
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/17/1863; no more deaths from the laboratory
explosion - donations for their relief have been pouring in |
Richmond Sentinel |
3/17/1863; committee appointed to disburse
contributions to victims of the Laboratory explosions |
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/18/1863; Mary Ryan, who caused the explosion
at the Confederate Laboratory, has died of her wounds |
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/20/1863; body of John Pelham has been brought
to the Capitol to lie in state - the body of Major Puller (ancestor to the
famous USMC General "Chesty" Puller) has passed through Richmond on the York
River Railroad |
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/20/1863; another man dies of his wounds after
the Confederate Laboratory disaster |
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/21/1863; description of the body of Maj. John
Pelham lying in state at the State Capitol - includes letter from J. E. B.
Stuart |
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/21/1863; 14-year old girl dies of her wounds
from the Laboratory explosion |
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/23/1863; fatal injuries at Tredegar Iron Works |
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/23/1863; Danville RR cars bring in over 1000
prisoners, some officers named. At present, there are 180 officers in Libby
Prison |
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/23/1863; J. E. B. Stuart has been in town;
Col. Rosser is recuperating in Richmond, and N. G. Evans is here also.
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/25/1863; two soldiers, charged with shooting
two men, have been sent to Castle Thunder to await Court-Martial |
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/26/1863; benefit to be held tonight at the
Market Hall for the victims of the Laboratory explosion |
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/30/1863; Capt. Webster, under sentence of
death, attempts to escape from Castle Thunder, but sprains his ankle in the
jump, and doesn't get far before being recaptured |
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/1/1863; dress parades of the City Battalion
and Smith's Armory Band are attracting ladies to Capitol Square every night |
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/7/1863; prisoner shot at Castle Thunder |
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/7/1863; deserter from the 54VA shot and
killed while trying to escape from Castle Thunder |
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/7/1863; details on the case of Dr. Palmer,
arrested for defying the Governor and the Mayor, during the Bread Riot. |
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/9/1863; City Battalion is to be increased in
size, and parades nightly on Capitol Square, to the delight of the ladies |
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/9/1863; General Elzey holds a review of
troops in Richmond in "Rocketts old field" |
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/10/1863; St. Charles Hotel sold for
$79,600 - still being used as a
hospital (GH#8) |
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/11/1863; details of the execution of Captain
Webster, a Castle Thunder prisoner, at Camp Lee |
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/13/1863; body of a Laboratory explosion
victim found in the "race leading to
Haxall’s mills." Notes that 50 deaths have thus far resulted from the
explosion |
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/14/1863; two men arrested during the Bread
Riot are charged with felonies - speculation over whether City is liable for
damage done during the riot |
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/15/1863; two prisoners escaped from the City
Jail; five men escaped from Castle Thunder |
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/15/1863; another female rioter sent on,
charged with a felony |
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/16/1863; 3 people (including Mary Jackson)
remanded to be tried for felonies for their roles in the Bread Riot - 1 man
acquitted of the same |
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/18/1863; the Washington Statue in Capitol
Square has been adopted as the official seal of the Confederacy |
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/18/1863; another Bread Rioter sent on for
felony |
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/20/1863; workman at the Confederate Arsenal
severely injured by getting caught in a turning lathe |
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/22/1863; the Clay statue in Capitol Square
has been mutilated by young boys - two fingers missing |
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/24/1863; Mary Jackson and Mary Johnson, Bread
Rioters, seek bail |
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/29/1863; two men of the City Battalion have
their heads shaved and drummed out of camp for accepting a bribe from a
prisoner which allowed him to escape - sent to Camp Lee as conscripts |
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/29/1863; Eighth Street bridge over the canal
has been rebuilt after its collapse during transfer of prisoners |
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/29/1863; two more rioters charged with
felonies |
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/1/1863; St. Charles Hotel has
been taken by the Georgia Hospital and Relief Association |
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/6/1863; prisoners arrive at
Castle Thunder and Libby Prison; 554 prisoner sent by flag of truce to City
Point; Libby now has very few inmates "except political prisoners" |
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/6/1863; more riot cases,
including Dr. Thos. Palmer |
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/9/1863; Gen. Hays and others
arrive at Libby prison, which has been white-washed and cleaned to
accommodate them |
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/9/1863; more riot cases - Thomas
Palmer discharged |
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/11/1863; huge arrival of Yankee
prisoners at Libby - line stretches through the city |
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/13/1863; brief description of
Belle Isle, which has the appearance of being "a military camp" with a large
number of prisoners now confined there |
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/14/1863; Public guard escorts the
remains of General Jackson to the Central Depot for transportation to
Lexington |
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/16/1863; fire at Crenshaw Mills and Tredegar Iron Works |
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/18/1863; ladies are stealing
flowers from Hollywood Cemetery |
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/18/1863; 882 Yankee prisoners
arrive; there are now 242 officers in Libby Prison |
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/19/1863; prisoners try to tunnel out of Castle Thunder |
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/20/1863; more escape attempts at Castle Thunder |
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/25/1863; Lieut. La Touche escorts
650 prisoners from Libby by flag of truce to City Point. Canadian Castle
Thunder prisoner goes with them |
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/28/1863; Letter from Winder hospital patient
praising accommodations |
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/30/1863; Rebuke of 5/28 letter by another
soldier |
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/30/1863; wounded soldier at the
Globe Hospital searches for his brothers |
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/3/1863; letter from patient dispelling the
notion that Winder Hospital is a "gloomy" place |
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/3/1863; Reference to other Winder
complaints |
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/4/1863; people are stealing flowers from
Hollywood and Shockoe cemeteries |
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/18/1863; Notice announcing the formation of a
Library Association for 1st Division, Winder Hospital, and request for
books. |
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/27/1863; cap and gloves that Stonewall
Jackson was wearing when he was wounded are in the possession of a patient
at Chimborazo |
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/27/1863; Castle Thunder escapee has been
recaptured |
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/30/1863; the ironclad Virginia II was
launched from the Rocketts shipyard yesterday |
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/2/1863; attempted escape from Castle Thunder |
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/16/1863; Lieut. Bufurd, aka Alice Williams,
has been released from Castle Thunder |
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/17/1863; Mary Jackson, ringleader of the
Bread Riot, is to be tried with misdemeanor |
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/20/1863; details on the identification of the
mustering officer at Camp Lee |
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/20/1863; a female spy is confined at St.
Francis de Sales Hospital |
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/22/1863; an enormous bird is brought to
Castle Thunder - wing amputated, still manages to gouge out the eyeballs of
one of the Castle Thunder dogs |
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/22/1863; Yankee prisoner in the building
opposite Castle Thunder is shot by a sentinel |
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/23/1863; body of Gen. Pettigrew arrives by
the RF&P RR and lies in state in the Capitol |
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/27/1863; Female spy at St. Francis de Sales |
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/28/1863; post office has been removed from
the Custom House to the basement of the Spotswood Hotel |
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/29/1863; great physical description of
Drewry's Bluff |
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/29/1863; Yankee General Neal Dow is to be
sent south |
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/29/1863; prayer meetings at Libby Prison |
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/30/1863; more Union officers arrive - 512 POW
officers are now in Richmond |
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/1/1863; building at Chimborazo struck by
lightning |
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/8/1863; 100 prisoners arrive at
Libby Prison, 65 negroes incarcerated in Castle Thunder |
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/10/1863; list of hospitals in
Richmond and to which hospitals soldiers from the various states are sent |
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/12/1863; price of slaves is more
now than it has been in the past |
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/12/1863; General John B. Hood is
in the city, recovering from his wound |
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/12/1863; account of a deserter
from Drewry's Bluff reporting that the fort garrisons only 90 men |
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/18/1863; J. R. Anderson (Tredegar
Iron Works) buys a lot of flour to sell to his workers at cost |
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/21/1863; list of imprisoned slaves at Castle Thunder
and Libby Prison |
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/25/1863; letter from prisoner at Libby |
Richmond
Sentinel |
8/28/1863; another slave list from Castle Thunder |
Richmond
Sentinel |
9/12/1863; Castle Thunder praised |
Richmond
Sentinel |
9/21/1863; list of hospitals in Richmond and to
which hospitals soldiers from the various states are sent |
Richmond
Sentinel |
9/26/1863; Virginia Army Agency's list of wounded &
transport to Chimborazo |
Richmond
Sentinel |
9/26/1863; description of Libby
Prison; says 600-700 officers there |
Richmond
Sentinel |
9/26/1863; details of the execution
of Spencer Kellogg (convicted as a spy) at Camp Lee |
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/3/1863; Gen. Winder wants to move all POWs to from Castle
Thunder to the Alms House (GH#1) |
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/6/1863; Wayside Hospital established at
Seabrook's (GH#9) |
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/6/1863; Wayside Hospital established at Seabrook's
(GH#9) |
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/9/1863; Library established at Winder |
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/12/1863; More on library at Winder |
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/12/1863; Georgia patients vote for Gov. at
Winder |
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/14/1863; More on library at Winder |
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/23/1863; Masonic Lodge has been built at
Drewry's Bluff |
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/23/1863; murder at Castle Thunder |
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/23/1863; 10,500 prisoners at
Belle Isle |
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/26/1863; alleged abuses in hospitals |
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/7/1863; fire near Chimborazo
Hospital |
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/9/1863; "outbreak" at Belle Isle suppressed |
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/10/1863; case of G. W. Alexander
(Castle Thunder) for "defiant contempt of the authority" of the Confederate
States District Court, will be heard today |
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/11/1863; details of trial of Commandant G. W. Alexander
(Castle Thunder) |
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/14/1863; six Yankee prisoners in
Castle Thunder take the oath of allegiance and are released |
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/16/1863; Yankees escape from Castle Thunder |
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/21/1863; one of two ice houses in
the city is located at Jackson Hospital (capacity 10,000 bushels) |
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/23/1863; surgeons at Seabrook's
(GH#9) |
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/24/1863; bake-house,
slaughter-house and general store-house are built at the Confederate
Laboratory to pay their employees with the output of said buildings |
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/26/1863; brief description of
the escape of a Yankee from Castle Thunder |
Richmond
Sentinel |
11/28/1863; 16,411 prisoners in
Richmond and Belle Isle. 952 of the number are officers. |
Richmond
Sentinel |
12/1/1863; Soldier's Guide (list of hospitals) |
Richmond
Sentinel |
12/2/1863; 510 Yankee prisoners at
Barrett's factory |
Richmond
Sentinel |
12/16/1863; man claims he was
illegally detained by George W. Alexander, and is released |
Richmond
Sentinel |
12/16/1863; tobacco factory of
Lawrence Lottier (later involved with Chimborazo Hospital) burns down |
Richmond
Sentinel |
12/17/1863; walls of the ruined
Crenshaw Woolen Mills collapse. Notes that the mill site had recently been
purchased by Tredegar |
Richmond
Sentinel |
12/17/1863; Large building under construction
blows down at Winder Hospital |
Richmond
Sentinel |
12/18/1863; G. W. Alexander,
commandant of Castle Thunder, is arrested for "malpractice in
office" |
Richmond
Sentinel |
12/30/1863; does Libby Prison have vermin? |
Richmond
Sentinel |
12/30/1863; Belle Isle prisoners
will soon be removed to Andersonville; Belle Isle is quite overcrowded. At
Andersonville "no difficulty will be encountered in supplying their wants." |
Richmond
Sentinel |
12/31/1863; Gen. A. P. Hill is now
"sojourning" in the city |
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
Sentinel |
1/2/1864; 500 prisoners from "McCurdy's
tobacco factory" have been removed to Belle Isle |
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/4/1864; more on Mary, Dr. F. W.
Hancock's slave |
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
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
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
Sentinel |
1/19/1864; more on George W.
Johnson, illegally detained by Dr. McCaw. He was deemed to be exempt and
released |
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/20/1864; most of escapees from building across street from
Castle Thunder caught |
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/22/1864; an attempt to burn down
the White House of the Confederacy was foiled |
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/28/1864; notes that the
Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal has been published |
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/23/1864; buildings burned at Winder Hospital |
Richmond
Sentinel |
2/11/1864; Libby Prison escape notice |
Richmond
Sentinel |
2/13/1864; eight more Libby escapees
were brought back, making 30 so far recaptured |
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
Sentinel |
2/17/1864; five more Libby escapees
were brought back (with names) |
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
Sentinel |
2/23/1864; more escapees from prison across street from
Castle Thunder |
Richmond
Sentinel |
2/24/1864; description of the fire
and explosion of the Confederate Coffee factory on Cary and 17th |
Richmond
Sentinel |
2/24/1864; 400 Yankee prisoners from
Belle Isle are taken to Libby Prison to await transfer to Andersonville |
Richmond
Sentinel |
2/26/1864; prisoners at Libby receive a gratuitous sermon |
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
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
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
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 |
3/9/1864; One of Gen. Winder's
detectives (Cashmeyer) has been arrested while passing letters to a Yankee
prisoner on a flag of truce boat |
Richmond 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
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 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 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 Sentinel |
4/25/1864; 420 sick Yankees are sent
to Libby from Danville, being unable to travel to Andersonville |
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
Sentinel |
4/29/1864; order to clean out hospitals |
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
Sentinel |
5/5/1864; 12,268 Yankee prisoners in
all the CSA; 1,943 are at Libby |
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
Sentinel |
5/13/1864; Belle Isle described briefly |
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
Sentinel |
5/19/1864; over 1100 Yankees
captured on the southside had come into Libby as of last night |
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/21/1864; William Carrington
advertises for the services of qualified physicians in all the hospitals in
Virginia |
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/24/1864; appeal for rags to be sent to
Winder Hospital |
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/25/1864; VMI cadets parade at Capitol Square
following the Battle of New Market |
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/26/1864; Castle Thunder admittances |
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/28/1864; VMI cadets parade and receive a new
stand of colors |
Richmond
Sentinel |
5/30/1864; 157 prisoners admitted to Libby
Prison |
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/1/1864; "What is Belle Isle Kept Up For?" |
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/1/1864; 200 prisoners, taken at
Atlee's, were brought to Libby yesterday |
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/2/1864; 10 prisoners released
from Castle Thunder |
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/7/1864; Dog-catchers round up
hundreds of stray dogs |
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
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
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
Sentinel |
6/16/1864; brief notice of the
burning of VMI buildings at Lexington. Cadets are presently at "Rope Ferry,
Balcony Falls" |
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
Sentinel |
6/21/1864; Describes conditions at Chimborazo |
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/22/1864; Robert Hitchcock accused of stealing opium &
quinine from Chimborazo |
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
Sentinel |
6/25/1864; Mary Jenkins, nurse at Howard's Grove, found
street wandering. |
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/28/1864; Army Intelligence Office has whereabouts of sick
and wounded |
Richmond
Sentinel |
6/30/1864; two Yankee deserters
arrive at Fort Drewry |
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
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
Sentinel |
7/9/1864; five workmen at Tredegar
are captured while attempting to escape to the Yankees and are put in Castle
Thunder |
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
Sentinel |
7/20/1864; female spy is received at
Castle Thunder |
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
Sentinel |
7/26/1864; Dr. Mary Walker is taken
to Gen. Gardner's office, desiring to be released |
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sentinel |
9/3/1864; Judge determines that Dr.
Peticolas is not bound to testify and he is released |
Richmond
Sentinel |
9/5/1864; more details of the trail
of R. C. Elmore, for duelling with J. M. Daniel. |
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
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
Sentinel |
9/17/1864; description of Gen.
Morgan's body lying in state in the Capitol, and burial at Hollywood |
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 |
Richmond
Sentinel |
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
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
Sentinel |
10/5/1864; member of 3rd S.C. knifes a patient at Stuart
Hospital and sent to Castle Thunder |
Richmond
Sentinel |
10/10/1864; brief paragraph
describing the burial of General Gregg in Hollywood |
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 |
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
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
Sentinel |
10/26/1864; man charged with the
shooting of little boy at Seabrook's is sent on for trial |
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
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
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
Sentinel |
11/5/1864; Wm., slave of Sally Tompkins charged with
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
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
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
Sentinel |
11/14/1864; three workers
from Tredegar arrested while attempting to go over to the enemy and are
put in Castle Thunder |
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
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
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
Sentinel |
1/13/1865; Note to Phoebe Pember in the personal ads. |
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/27/1865; Luther Libby a POW of Yankees |
Richmond
Sentinel |
1/28/1865; list of hospitals in Richmond and to
which hospitals soldiers from the various states are sent |
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/20/1865; Luther Libby's return to Richmond |
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/21/1865; Winder-Jackson Battalion; incl Negroes
to parade |
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/23/1865; description of the Winder-Jackson
Battalion's parade at Capitol square |
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/27/1865; 1300 Yankees sent off by
flag-of-truce boat, 500 Yankees arrive at Libby Prison |
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/30/1865; slave put in Castle Thunder for
helping soldiers desert |
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/1/1865; "squad" of Yankee prisoners
arrives at Libby Prison |
Richmond
Sentinel |
4/1/1865; "the Weather;" says it has
been raining very hard for the past two days. |