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| Richmond Dispatch | 5/3/1861; St. Francis de Sales Hospital is ready to accept patients |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/4/1861; Rev. Francis Boggs, the Chaplain at Camp Lee, has been elected Captain in the 1st VA Inf. |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/4/1861; Richmond Home Guard meets nightly near Springfield Hall (later GH#26) to drill |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/8/1861; Ad for Ree's photographic gallery |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/8/1861; recruiting rendezvous for Navy is at the warehouse of Libby & Son |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/9/1861; fire burns down building adjacent to Libby & Son's ship chandlery (later Libby Prison), which is saved by great exertions by firemen |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/10/1861; attempt to burn down Libby & Son's warehouse (later Libby Prison) |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/10/1861; Capt. J.E.B. Stuart has arrived in Richmond after resigning his commission |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/10/1861; Sailors are being recruited at the "Naval Rendezvous" which is in Libby & Son's warehouse (later Libby Prison) |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/10/1861; J. B. McCaw (later Surgeon in Charge at Chimborazo Hospital) amongst others is raising a company of mounted rifles |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/10/1861; advertisement for Rees' photographic gallery |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/10/1861; volunteer company is being raised at Springfield Hall (later General Hospital #26) |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/11/1861; editorial concerning the removal of the Confederate Capital to Richmond; very positive |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/11/1861; editorial on which song should be the new Confederate National Anthem; very negative towards "Dixie" |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/11/1861; building adjacent to Libby & Son's warehouse is still burning |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/15/1861; Howard's Grove use and description |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/16/1861; Richmond Howitzers have moved from Howard's Grove to Chimborazo Hill |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/18/1861; Hampden Artillery is stationed at the Baptist College (Richmond College, future Louisiana Hospital) |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/18/1861; Louisiana volunteers, stationed at Howard's Grove, are having difficulties with their laundresses |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/20/1861; two attempts to destroy the Tredegar Iron Works by fire |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/20/1861; area near the old United States Hotel (later GH#10) is the scene of bloody fights and drunken revelry |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/21/1861; 1st North Carolina regiment has arrived in Richmond, and is camped at Howard's Grove |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/21/1861; religious services are held at Camp Lee, administered by Dr. Hoge and Dr. Duncan |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/21/1861; description of the offices in the Customs House, and who occupies them |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/21/1861; 1st Tennessee Regiment is camped southeast of Howard's Grove, near the "Black Pond" |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/21/1861; C. S. Quartermaster warehouses are on Pearl Street (now 14th) |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/22/1861; incorrect threat of fire to the Tredegar Iron Works |
| Richmond Whig | 5/22/1861; Camp of Instruction (Camp Lee) described. VMI cadets praised. |
| Richmond Whig | 5/22/1861, p. 3; Richmond Howitzers camped on Chimborazo hill, with new military road "leading from the plateau," along the declivity, to the encampment at Rocketts. Artillery posted atop the hill. |
| Richmond Whig | 5/23/1861, p. 3; Howard's Grove described in pre-hospital days. |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/25/1861; house burns down "opposite Hardgrove's factory" |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/27/1861; 2nd North Carolina regiment has been camped at Howard's Grove |
| Richmond Enquirer | 5/28/1861; "Practical Hints for Volunteers - Military Surgery and Treatment of the Wounded" |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/29/1861; ladies of the Monumental Church are doing work for the soldiers in the Mechanics' Institute |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/29/1861; Richmond Home Artillery will meet tonight at the Mechanics' Institute |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/29/1861; State authorities are building a new stables at the corner of Broad and 11th |
| Richmond Dispatch | 5/30/1861; great description of the arrival of President Jefferson Davis in Richmond and the celebration in the city as he is escorted to Spotswood Hotel; later he reviewed the troops at Camp Lee |
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