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Richmond
Enquirer
10/21/1861; winter quarters in the vicinity of
the reservoir are nearly completed (future Winder Hospital)
Richmond
Enquirer
11/12/1861; quarterly statistics of the Shockoe
Cemetery - 99 POWs buried there
Richmond
Enquirer
11/18/1861; great description of the prison
system in Richmond with list of employees (included Wirz and Higginbotham).
Notes that over 2000 POWs now in Richmond
Richmond
Enquirer
11/21/1861; sentinel at unnamed prison charged
and acquitted of shooting at the prisoners
Richmond
Enquirer
11/21/1861; sentinel at "Confederate Prison No.
2" accidentally shot two prisoners, one mortally. Mentions that he was on a
hill behind the prison when his musket accidentally discharged. Mayor finds
that the incident was an accident
Richmond
Enquirer
11/23/1861; a baker is wanted at the General
Hospital (GH#1)
Richmond
Enquirer
12/10/1861; 3 officers and one VMI cadet are
ordered from the Camp of Instruction to duty in the prisons (includes T. P.
Turner and Geo. Emack)
Richmond
Enquirer
12/14/1861; new hospital opened at Mayo's
factory, corner of 25th and Cary street
Richmond
Enquirer
12/18/1861; Capt. Ricketts and his wife are to
be sent North - notes that while in Richmond they were visited by Pres.
Davis and others
Richmond
Sentinel
8/4/1863; notes that the grounds of the
Hermitage Fair Grounds (Camp Lee) have been negatively impacted by the
usages of war
Richmond
Sentinel
8/5/1863; the Winder building, on 10th between
Broad and Capitol streets, is nearly completed; declares it better than the
stables that formerly occupied the site
Richmond
Sentinel
8/14/1863; advocates a fence be built around
the canal basin - notes that several people drowned there in the past year
after stumbling into the basin
Richmond
Sentinel
8/15/1863; man dies suddenly at the Libby
Prison hospital and interred in Oakwood Cemetery
Richmond
Sentinel
8/19/1863; officer at Drewry's Bluff is court-martialled
for being AWOL, and confined to camp
Richmond
Sentinel
8/27/1863; Gen. R. E. Lee is in town for a
short visit
Richmond
Sentinel
9/16/1863; patient at Howard's Grove Hospital
arrested for being "drunk and disorderly in the street"
Richmond
Sentinel
9/17/1863; 50 soldiers wounded at Brandy
Station arrive at Seabrook's Hospital
Richmond
Sentinel
9/19/1863; Mary C. Van Lew (related to E. L.
Van Lew?) arrested and fined for letting her slave go at large
Richmond
Sentinel
9/21/1863; Seabrook's Hospital (GH#9) admission procedure
and general description
Richmond
Sentinel
10/1/1863; inmates are attempting to tunnel out
of Castle Thunder
Richmond
Sentinel
10/1/1863; Gen. Winder attempts to impress the
tobacco factory of Jas. H. Grant at Franklin and 19th for a slave hospital,
but Grant gets an injunction to keep his property and succeeds in blocking
Winder's attempt
Richmond
Sentinel
10/5/1863; guard at Castle Thunder shoots three
other members of the City Battalion in a fight. Mentions a parade ground
near Libby Prison
Richmond
Sentinel
10/6/1863; two slaves whipped for stealing
things at General Hospital No. 4
Richmond
Sentinel
10/6/1863; 850 Belle Isle prisoners to be sent
off today
Richmond
Sentinel
10/17/1863; Seabrook's warehouse to be used for
a wayside hospital for soldiers on furlough
Richmond
Sentinel
10/28/1863; a Confederate deserter tries to
escape from General Hospital #13 by means of climbing down a bed sheet rope
out the window - falls and receives a concussion, and returned to
confinement
Added January 12, 2003
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
5/25/1863; Lieut. La Touche escorts 650
prisoners from Libby by flag of truce to City Point. Canadian Castle Thunder
prisoner goes with them
Richmond
Sentinel
5/30/1863; wounded soldier at the Globe
Hospital searches for his brothers
Richmond
Sentinel
6/4/1863; people are stealing flowers from
Hollywood and Shockoe cemeteries
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
7/16/1863; 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
7/28/1863; 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
7/30/1863; more Union officers arrive - 512 POW
officers are now in Richmond
Added January 11, 2003
Richmond
Dispatch
8/1/1861; reflection on the religious nature of
the Civil War - declares that the war is a religious war
Richmond Sentinel
3/17/1863; committee appointed to disburse
contributions to victims of the Laboratory explosions
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; 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; 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
Added January 10, 2003
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
3/18/1863; Mary Ryan, who caused the explosion
at the Confederate Laboratory, has died of her wounds
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
3/18/1863; Mary Ryan, who caused the explosion
at the Confederate Laboratory, has died of her wounds
Richmond
Sentinel
3/20/1863; another man dies of his wounds after
the Confederate Laboratory disaster
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
Added January 9, 2003
Richmond
Dispatch
11/7/1861;
CS Armory very
active now
Richmond
Dispatch
11/8/1861;
2 guards
(civilians) at Louisiana Hospital fight - one kills the other
Richmond
Dispatch
11/8/1861; card noting that Wm. A. Carrington
has his (private) office on Main street
Richmond
Dispatch
11/8/1861; description of the improvements made
to the Senate chamber preparatory to the arrival of the Confederate Senate -
VA State Senate are relocated upstairs
Richmond
Dispatch
11/8/1861; Georgia Hospital, 21st street,
advertises for servants
Richmond
Dispatch
11/9/1861;
More on Louisiana
Hospital shooting - an accident, they decide
Richmond
Dispatch
11/11/1861; excellent description of "the city
of Chimborazo" - describes the buildings as winter quarters, not a hospital
Richmond
Dispatch
11/11/1861;
Update on
Louisiana Hosp. shooting case
Richmond
Dispatch
11/11/1861;
18GA & 3GA Bn
returned to Rd on Nov. 8 - Bethel Regt. "now occupies quarters on Hospital
Hill"
Richmond
Dispatch
11/11/1861;
slave of James
Royster whipped for stealing coffee from Ga. Hospital
Richmond
Dispatch
11/12/1861; statistics of burials in Shockoe
cemetery during the last quarter, including 97 Union POWs
Richmond
Dispatch
11/12/1861;
Adv. from Libby &
Son for new sales items - tar, turpentine, etc
Richmond
Dispatch
11/13/1861;
rent notice by
Geo. S. Palmer, for 2 warehouses fronting on Cary & Dock Sts
Richmond
Dispatch
11/14/1861;
rent notice for
Libby & Son's warehouse
Richmond
Dispatch
11/15/1861; colored female nurse needed at the
2nd Alabama Hospital
Richmond
Dispatch
11/18/1861;
Camp Dimmock is
“beyond the reservoir”
Richmond
Dispatch
11/19/1861; 18GA left the city today
Richmond
Dispatch
11/21/1861;
2 CS soldier
guards in trouble for shooting at POWs – one fatality, the other a miss.
Names given, prison not ID'ed
Richmond
Dispatch
11/22/1861;
G. L. Gates,
steward at Chimborazo #2, adv. for one male cook
Richmond
Dispatch
11/22/1861;
Camp Dimmock
beyond Old Fair Grounds, near trotting track
Richmond
Dispatch
11/22/1861;
Dr. McCabe, post
Chaplain, overwhelmed with work
Richmond
Dispatch
11/23/1861;
Summary of
artillery review at Camp Dimmock
Richmond
Dispatch
11/26/1861;
Short note to 4
little girls from G. Washington Alexander, thanking them on behalf of
Zarvona Zouaves
Richmond
Dispatch
11/26/1861;
death notice for
Lt. A. B. Bird, H5TX, died Robertson Hosp – funeral from St. Paul’s Chapel,
5th St. near Armory
Richmond
Dispatch
11/26/1861;
Adv. for nurses
at Byrd Island Hosp. – one white male & 3 or 4 servants
Richmond
Dispatch
11/29/1861;
C. B. Gibson at
G. H. #1 wants to hire 9 male nurses
Richmond
Dispatch
11/30/1861;
Fire at shed
behind Dibrell’s Warehouse, Cary St. below 21st . Yankee POWs in
adjacent county jail maybe started it
Richmond
Dispatch
11/30/1861;
31 POWs arrive –
now a total of 1483 in town – names 4 POWs who died 11/29
Richmond
Dispatch
12/3/1861;
Slave of
Pleasant’s & Frayser whipped for stealing bed from 2nd Georgia Hospital
Richmond
Dispatch
12/4/1861; more
details on the new Senate chamber for the State Senate
Richmond
Dispatch
12/4/1861;
Adv. for
employees at Byrd Island Hospital
Richmond
Dispatch
12/5/1861;
Dr. Higginbotham
given a hand-made pipe by a grateful POW patient
Richmond
Dispatch
12/6/1861;
G. S. McNeal,
Steward 2nd Alabama Hospital adv. for lost overcoat
Richmond
Dispatch
12/7/1861; excellent
directory of churches in Richmond, pastors, and times of worship
Richmond
Dispatch
12/7/1861;
death notice for
13 month old son of Charles H. Winston
Richmond
Dispatch
12/7/1861;
2 negro
washerwomen needed at 2nd Ala Hospital
Richmond
Dispatch
12/11/1861;
Adv from Libby &
Son for recently received goods – selling tar, turpentine, etc.
Richmond
Dispatch
12/12/1861; duel
takes place at the Broad Rock Race Course
Richmond
Dispatch
12/13/1861;
Capt. B. G.
Baldwin commanding Richmond Arsenal is selling a horse
Richmond
Dispatch
12/14/1861;
Public Guard
displaced from State Armory
Richmond
Dispatch
12/17/1861;
Marylanders
looking to rent building for hospital use
Richmond
Dispatch
12/18/1861; Notes on
prisoners of war - notes that Capt. Ricketts and his wife will be released
today
Richmond
Dispatch
12/19/1861;
Residents of
Union & Church Hills to meet at Co. G armory for local defense
Richmond
Dispatch
12/19/1861;
Nice sales notice
for Atkinson’s Factory, north side of Main betw. 26 & 27
Richmond
Dispatch
12/21/1861;
12lb Howitzer
just cast at Tredegar sent to Turner Ashby
Richmond
Dispatch
12/24/1861; Dr.
Dandridge, at the Byrd Island Hospital, is looking for two substitutes
Richmond
Dispatch
12/25/1861;
Kent, Paine & Co.
warehouse for rent
Richmond
Dispatch
12/27/1861;
Attempt to escape
from City Jail foiled
Richmond
Dispatch
12/27/1861;
Tredegar
Battalion to have full dress uniform drill
Richmond
Dispatch
12/27/1861;
Slave of T. & S.
Hardgrove punished for providing whiskey to POWs
Richmond
Dispatch
12/28/1861;
Tredegar
Battalion looked good on parade
Richmond
Dispatch
12/30/1861;
update on Yankee
POWs - much cheerfulness among the prisoners
Richmond
Dispatch
12/31/1861;
Thos. B. Rees,
Main between 9 & 10 wants to hire cook for small family
Added January 7, 2003
Richmond
Dispatch
10/25/1861;
Enormous
description of arrival of POWs at VA Central depot. Sent to Mayo's Factory,
corner 25th and Cary. Much on 18th & 19th GA as guards. Wm. Harris, future
author, is among the prisoners
Richmond
Dispatch
10/25/1861;
Good paragraph on
18th GA, camped at Bloody Run, Guarding POWs
Richmond
Dispatch
10/25/1861; fire brigade parades and tests
their new engine on the south side of the canal basin
Richmond
Dispatch
10/25/1861; slaves of John Greanor and John
Minor Botts are acquitted of stealing from a sick soldier
Richmond
Dispatch
10/25/1861;
"Extraordinary
Freak" - man in drag appears on Main street
Richmond
Dispatch
10/25/1861;
1NC Cavalry
parades through Capitol Square
Richmond
Dispatch
10/28/1861;
18GA & 3GA Bn
left 10/25 for N.C.
Richmond
Dispatch
10/28/1861; New hospital is established on Clay
street, between Fifth and Sixth under Mrs. Phillip Mayo
Richmond
Dispatch
10/28/1861;
Taylor's factory
near corner of 25th & Cary, taken by the Government for a prison
Richmond
Dispatch
10/30/1861;
Adv. for nurses
needed at Warwick Hosp., south side of Broad betw. 23rd & 24th Sts.
Richmond
Dispatch
10/30/1861;
runaway slave
ad., Bellevue Hospital
Richmond
Dispatch
11/1/1861;
Entrenchers near
Blakey's Pond find buried cannon & shells
Richmond
Dispatch
11/1/1861;
Rev. John C.
McCabe appointed chaplain of area military posts
Richmond
Dispatch
11/1/1861; Gen. Robert E. Lee has returned to
the city from western Virginia
Richmond
Dispatch
11/2/1861; more details on Rev. Dr. McCabe -
came from the 32VA
Richmond
Dispatch
11/2/1861;
Adv. for cooks to
operate Spotswood Hotel kitchen
Richmond
Dispatch
11/4/1861;
Soldiers guarding
prisons are building fires in streets to keep warm
Richmond
Dispatch
11/6/1861;
Capt. Gibbs in
command of the military prisons in Richmond
Richmond
Dispatch
11/6/1861;
active lumber
yard at corner 21st & Dock
Richmond
Dispatch
11/6/1861;
E. H. Poindexter
adv. for runaway slave Riley, "from my plantation, in the lower end of
Henrico County." (Malvern Hill)
Richmond
Dispatch
5/14/1863; Capt. Jos.
Griswold, Provost Marshal of Richmond resigns, and is replaced by Capt.
James Brown
Richmond
Dispatch
5/14/1863; new Confederate flag will be displayed on the Capitol today
Added January 6, 2003
Richmond
Dispatch
10/5/1861; Report of G. W. Alexander's MD
meeting, Convened at Adam's Bldg, 10th St. betw. Main & Cary. Meeting
brought to order by "Capt. Dugan, a fine specimen of a Marylander." Details
on GWA
Richmond
Dispatch
10/7/1861;
flag of truce
boat carries away 57 POWs - Charles Bell Gibson and St. George Peachy
accompany the departing prisoners
Richmond
Dispatch
10/7/1861; details on the times of departure at
the Petersburg Railroad
Richmond
Dispatch
10/7/1861;
Congressman Ely
presented with a wooden sword in prison
Richmond
Dispatch
10/7/1861;
flood ruins wharf
at Rocketts
Richmond
Dispatch
10/7/1861;
More than 100
sick arrive for hospitals via the Central railroad
Richmond
Dispatch
10/7/1861;
Geo. S. Palmer
renting out "two large warehouses fronting on Water and Cary streets,
between 20th and 21st streets." (later Libby Prison)
Richmond
Dispatch
10/8/1861;
Geo. Sheridan,
Ala. soldier, goes crazy, runs through streets in underwear, leaps to death
in canal at "Armory Bridge"
Richmond
Dispatch
10/8/1861;
Now two Georgia
Hospitals in operation, a third in preparation
Richmond
Dispatch
10/8/1861; correction of times of departure on
the Petersburg Railroad
Richmond
Dispatch
10/8/1861;
death notice of
Mary E. McCaw, daughter of Dr. Wm. R. McCaw (sister to J. B. McCaw?)
Richmond
Dispatch
10/8/1861;
Tredegar adv. for
4 good mules
Richmond
Dispatch
10/9/1861;
new Ga. hosp. at
Taylor's Factory, 24th & Franklin - not ready but patients arrive anyway,
unexpectedly
Richmond
Dispatch
10/9/1861;
Ad for G. W.
Alexander's Zarvona Zouave guerilla
Richmond
Dispatch
10/11/1861;
Aleck, slave of
Dr. Wellford, is nurse at St. Charles Hotel. Arrested for theft.
Richmond
Dispatch
10/11/1861;
Vice President
Alexander Stephens visits Georgia Hospitals daily
Richmond
Dispatch
10/12/1861;
18 Ga. Hospital
located "near Bloody Run" (Chimborazo)
Richmond
Dispatch
10/12/1861;
New foundation
for Haxall Crenshaw Mill is complete
Richmond
Dispatch
10/12/1861;
Springfield Hosp.
thanks local ladies for delicacies
Richmond
Dispatch
10/12/1861;
CS Armory seeks
pattern makers & smiths
Richmond
Dispatch
10/15/1861;
J. M. Selkirk at
Smith's Factory, 21st St., applies for washerwomen for the Ga. Hospitals
Richmond
Dispatch
10/16/1861;
36 WIA prisoners
transferred from Alms House to prison. Authorities hope to use Alms House
for CSA only
Richmond
Dispatch
10/16/1861; Louisiana Hospital needs three good
washerwomen
Richmond
Dispatch
10/16/1861;
N. G. Tumley,
Hosp. Steward, adv. for 2 good negro male cooks for Chimborazo.
Richmond
Dispatch
10/17/1861;
J. H. Greanor's
slave George attacks Dr. Wellford's slave Phebe with an axe, in the bottom
near the Central depot
Richmond
Dispatch
10/18/1861;
marriage notice -
Mr. Thos. P. Turner marries India N. Wilson, 10/15/61 at Branch's Baptist
Church, Chestfld Co.
Richmond
Dispatch
10/18/1861;
details on case
of axe-wielding slave of Capt. John H. Greanor
Richmond
Dispatch
10/18/1861; list of public
schools & expenses. Includes Lancastrian School ($600) & Tredegar Free
School ($250)
Richmond
Dispatch
10/21/1861;
description of the celebration of the anniversary of the Battle of Yorktown
- Armory Band and Public guard put on festivities in Capitol Square
Richmond
Dispatch
10/21/1861; update on
recruiting for Zarvona Zouaves. G. W. Alexander back in town.
Richmond
Dispatch
10/22/1861; Tredegar adv. for
certain skilled laborers
Richmond
Dispatch
10/23/1861; List of
contributors to St. Charles Hosp. including $395 from J. R. Anderson &
Tredegar Employees
Richmond
Dispatch
10/23/1861; short letter of
thanks to donors from G. W. Alexander
Richmond
Dispatch
10/24/1861; details on the
anxiety at the Central depot over the non-arrival of prisoners; too many
prisoners in town; Plans afoot to convert a tobacco factory on 25th into a
prison
Richmond
Dispatch
10/24/1861; Four POWs (named)
died 10/23 at Prison hospital
Richmond
Dispatch
10/24/1861; Nurse needed at
factory, corner 25th and Cary
Added January 5, 2003
Richmond Dispatch
8/24/1861; directors of the Richmond College
give the college to Louisiana soldiers for use as a hospital
Richmond Dispatch
9/11/1861; ladies of the First Baptist Church
have procured a house on Fourth street beyond Leigh to use as a hospital
Richmond Dispatch
9/26/1861; The State Armory is now at the
corner of 7th and Cary streets
Richmond Dispatch
10/1/1861; Officer Winches has been engaged in
cleaning up the General Hospital and adding to the comfort of the inmates
Richmond Dispatch
10/1/1861; Junius Archer, proprietor of Bellona
Arsenal turns over $568 to St. Charles Hosp. - his proceeds from sale of
Columbiad to Govt.
Richmond Dispatch
10/1/1861; Adv. from Libby & Son - warehouse
can store 20,000 bushels of wheat or 550 hhd tobacco
Richmond
Dispatch
10/2/1861; description of the armament shops on
7th streets
Richmond
Dispatch
10/3/1861; Crew & Pemberton advertises their
tobacco
Richmond
Dispatch
10/3/1861; 230 sick soldiers arrive from
Manassas
Richmond
Dispatch
10/3/1861; Ad to Marylanders from Adjt. G. W.
Alexander, proposing to form the Zarvona Zouaves
Richmond
Dispatch
10/4/1861; Mrs. J. Davis & Mrs. Gen. Johnston
injured in carriage wreck near Dill's farm. Arm of latter broken
Richmond
Dispatch
10/4/1861; 4th Main soldier escaped from Ross'
Factory. Captured at Tunstall's Station by Dr. Tazewell Tyler, Mr. Apperson
& Wm. W. New
Richmond
Dispatch
10/4/1861; Gen. Winder is recruiting a company
of exempts for city duty
Richmond
Dispatch
10/4/1861; J. W. Pegram adv. for lost horse,
Camp Belcher near Fairfield Race Course
Richmond
Dispatch
10/5/1861; excellent description of the fitting
up of the Capitol building for use by the Confederate Congress
Richmond
Dispatch
10/5/1861; details on four Yankee prisoners
brought to the city
Richmond
Dispatch
10/5/1861; 100 sick soldiers arrive in the city
and conveyed to the hospitals
Richmond
Dispatch
10/5/1861; 100 women wanted to work at the C.
S. Laboratory at 7th and Arch streets
Richmond
Dispatch
10/5/1861; Pleasants & Frayser adv. for 4
Washerwomen and Men Servants
RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 199.5, p. 15
8/28/1862; Wirz notes on the sparse armament
for the guard at Libby Prison
RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 199.5,
p. 15
8/29/1862; Wirz calls for 7 extra guards at
Belle Isle
RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 199.5, p. 19
9/6/1862; Wirz orders Capt. Montgomery to send
in the names of prisoners who die at Belle Isle each morning
RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 199.5,
p. 19
9/7/1862; Wirz orders Capt. Elliot, of the City
Battalion, to send 20 guards to Libby Prison, in order to conduct prisoners
to Belle Isle
M437, Reel 87 3/26/1863; letter from Surgeon General Moore
arguing against Wm. A. Carrington's assignment as Medical Director
RG
109, Ch. 6, Vol. 7, no page
9/28/1863; Medical Director's Office has been
moved to "new government building" at 10th and Broad; wayside hospital has
been transferred to the Engineer bureau - henceforth General Hospital #9
will be known as the Receiving and Way Hospital
RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 199.5,
p. 111
10/15/1863; Jno. McCabe is appointed Chaplain
at Libby Prison, in addition to his duties at Hollywood cemetery
RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 7, no page
12/4/1863; "Hospitals for prisoners of war are
placed on the same footing as other C. S. hospitals in all respects, and
will be managed accordingly"
Added January 4, 2003
Richmond
Dispatch
8/16/1861; list of donations to the St. Charles
Hospital - includes donations from the children at the Lancastrian school,
as well as the workers of the C. S. Laboratory
Richmond
Dispatch
8/28/1861; inquest on a very tattooed man who
died near Seabrook's warehouse
Richmond
Dispatch
9/27/1861; catalog for the Richmond Female
Institute's next session
Richmond
Dispatch
9/27/1861; Roger Martin's school will re-open,
after its use as a hospital
Richmond
Enquirer
9/2/1862; Miss Clopton's school will re-open on
the 1st of October
Richmond
Enquirer
10/2/1862; catalog for the Richmond Female
Institute - will resume operations after "the temporary occupation of the
institute building by the Government"
Richmond
Enquirer
10/2/1862; one deserter, confined at Castle
Thunder, pardoned from death sentence. His two rap buddies will be hung soon
at Camp Lee
Richmond
Enquirer
10/11/1862; Kent & Paine Co. will resume
operations in its warehouse, which the government has given up as a
hospital. It will be thoroughly cleaned before business resumes
Richmond
Enquirer
10/16/1862; rosy and verbose description of a
visit to the soldier's section of Hollywood Cemetery
Richmond
Enquirer
10/16/1862; Mrs. A. F. Hopkins acknowledges
contributions to Alabama soldiers
Richmond
Enquirer
10/17/1862; sunset from Church Hill rivals
those in other parts of the world
Richmond
Enquirer
10/20/1862; soldier dies after a fall off the
porch of the Franklin street guard house
Richmond
Enquirer
10/21/1862; man garroted near the Central depot
and robbed of his possessions - mention steps leading down into the valley
from Broad street
Richmond
Enquirer
10/22/1862; information wanted on a Phillips'
Legion soldier who left General Hospital #18
Richmond
Enquirer
10/23/1862; slave ordered whipped for stealing
a bag of flour from Winder Hospital
Richmond
Enquirer
10/23/1862; Capt. G. W. Alexander has been
ordered to take charge of the Yankee prisoners in the city
Richmond
Enquirer
10/23/1862; 64 deserters arrived at Castle
Thunder yesterday
Richmond
Enquirer
10/25/1862; accident at the Armory - man
working on a loaded musket accidentally discharges it and wounds the man
next to him
Richmond
Enquirer
10/27/1862; description of a "novel" surgical
operation at the 3rd Alabama Hospital
Richmond
Enquirer
10/28/1862; Mayor refuses to rule on a thief
from Castle Thunder
Richmond
Enquirer
10/28/1862; notes that the neighborhood of
Castle Thunder is a very rowdy one, and that the vagabonds in Richmond could
make a "good-sized regiment"
Richmond
Enquirer
10/28/1862; obituary notice for Anne Carter
Lee, R. E. Lee's daughter
Richmond
Enquirer
10/29/1862; slave ordered twenty-five lashes
for stealing beef from Grant Hospital
Richmond
Enquirer
10/30/1862; City Battalion and Armory Band
parade -discipline of the City Battalion praised
Richmond
Enquirer
11/5/1862; soldier tries to escape from Castle
Lightning, and seriously injures himself in the process
Richmond Enquirer
11/7/1862; two federal deserters and one
prisoner lodged in Libby Prison
Richmond
Enquirer
11/8/1862; slave of J. R. Anderson convicted
for stealing lumber from the Basin bank - gets fifteen lashes
Richmond
Enquirer
11/19/1862; detailed account of bribery and
attempted escape at Castle Thunder
Richmond
Enquirer
11/26/1862; excellent description of the
Confederate stables, located on Capitol and 10th streets
Richmond
Enquirer
11/27/1862; description of the punishment of
"bucking" at Castle Thunder
Richmond
Enquirer
12/2/1862; Col. Gilham has produced a new ink,
which is sold by West & Johnson's
Richmond
Enquirer
12/10/1862; Castle Thunder will be a general
depot for all deserters and State prisoners in the Confederacy
Richmond
Enquirer
12/11/1862; slave employed at Chimborazo, found
drunk in the city, runs from the police, and ordered 25 lashes
Richmond
Enquirer
12/11/1862; Scully and Lewis, confined at
Castle Thunder as spies, are to be released and sent North
Richmond
Enquirer
12/13/1862; sentinel at Camp Lee freezes to
death; chaplain seeks blankets for the men
Richmond
Enquirer
12/13/1862; escape attempt from Castle Thunder
- perpetrators were in "Cell No. 1, first floor, north side."
Richmond
Enquirer
12/13/1862; Joseph R. Anderson buys a farm in
Goochland County for $112,000
Richmond
Enquirer
12/15/1862; Surgeon Coffin, at the Receiving
Hospital, advertises to find the name of a man who arrived at the hospital
deceased
Richmond
Enquirer
12/16/1862; Col. Norris Montgomery has resigned
his commission in the Deas Artillery
Richmond
Enquirer
12/18/1862; details on four new arrivals at
Castle Thunder
Richmond
Enquirer
12/18/1862; man who had escaped from Castle
Thunder twice before is recaptured in Rocketts
Richmond
Enquirer
12/18/1862; George W. Hitchcock, Assistant
quartermaster at "Libby and other prisons" dies of small pox at Howard's
Grove. A North Carolinian also died at Castle Thunder of pneumonia
Richmond
Enquirer
12/18/1862; up to yesterday, 299 prisoners had
arrived from the Rappahannock. Yesterday, 460 more arrive
Richmond Enquirer
12/20/1862; man dies in Castle Thunder of "camp
disease"
Richmond Enquirer
12/24/1862; G. W. Alexander returns to his post
at Castle Thunder after some time at Fredericksburg with the Letcher
Artillery
Richmond Enquirer
12/24/1862; 180 prisoners brought to Libby -
they were the guard of a wagon train captured by Hampton near Dumfries
Richmond Enquirer
12/29/1862; a plot by 150 prisoners in Castle
Thunder to assassinate the guard and escape is thwarted, and the ring-leader
is placed in irons and fed bread and water
Richmond Enquirer
12/31/1862; excellent account of the Christmas
dinner at Div. 1, Winder Hospital sponsored by the matron, Mrs. Mason. Also
notes the kind treatment of patients by the matrons at the Banner Hospital.
Praises the hospital bill and its provisions for matrons
Richmond Enquirer
12/31/1862; of the 200 wounded prisoners in the
Libby hospital, only 25 have died
Richmond Enquirer
12/31/1862; all but the ringleaders of the
Castle Thunder "mutiny" have been released and sent back to camp
National Tribune 2/28/1901; description of a visit to Richmond,
mentions Bird Island, Belle Isle (mentions that many soldiers still buried
there), and the White House of the Confederacy
Added January 3, 2003
Richmond
Enquirer
9/8/1862; hilarious account of a man who
believes he is the devil and a negro who exploited him
Richmond
Enquirer
9/10/1862; slave of James H. Grant breaks into
the house of a slave of William Greanor
Richmond
Enquirer
9/12/1862; a "considerable traffic" is going on
with federal prisoners for United States currency
Richmond
Enquirer
9/17/1862; blacksmiths and strikers needed at
the Confederate Armory, foot of 5th street
Richmond
Enquirer
9/22/1862; three deserters, confined at Castle
Thunder, to be shot at Camp Lee
Richmond
Enquirer
9/24/1862; remains of General Starke, killed at
Sharpsburg, arrives at the Central depot, and escorted to the Capitol where
they were laid in state
Richmond
Enquirer
9/24/1862; dairy for the use of the Richmond
hospitals is proposed - carload of cows to arrive on the Central road
Richmond
Enquirer
9/25/1862; young man rips off patients at
General Hospital #7
Richmond
Enquirer
9/26/1862; Editorial paragraph praising the
Hospital Bill. Notes the surgeons are not to blame, but rather the poor
system.
Richmond
Enquirer
9/26/1862; excellent description of the Senate
debate on the hospital bill. Praises Clopton, St. Francis de Sales,
Louisiana Hospital, and Winder Hospital. Gives some statistics not available
elsewhere. Generally praises hospitals run by women
Richmond
Enquirer
9/29/1862; man charged with operating a
"disorderly house" near Dr. Higginbotham's Hospital
Richmond
Enquirer
9/29/1862; dead infant found in the canal
between Haxall's Mill and the Danville Depot
Added January 2, 2003 Capitol Building
Churches
Richmond
Enquirer
7/3/1862; wounded Confederates have temporarily
been placed in the store of Angus & Byerly at the Old Market
Richmond
Enquirer
7/5/1862; man drowns in the canal near Tredegar
Iron Works
Richmond
Enquirer
7/9/1862; accident at Thomas' factory - wagoner
blows his fingers off while off-loading muskets picked up on the
battlefield.
Richmond
Enquirer
7/11/1862; call for attention to Chimborazo
hospital - notes that it has many patients, but its remoteness causes it to
be overlooked to those looking to help or contribute. Notes also the need to
keep the buildings clean
Richmond
Enquirer
7/12/1862; paragraph on the name "Cold Harbor"
- states that it is properly called "Coal Harbor"
Richmond
Enquirer
7/14/1862; notes that the prison on Franklin
street (probably Grant's Factory) is near a candle factory, and that both of
these things are poorly placed within a residential neighborhood - argues
that prisons should be in a less populated areas
Richmond
Enquirer
7/14/1862; number now registered at the Libby
Prison exceeds 6000
Richmond
Enquirer
7/15/1862; good description of the prison on
Belle Isle - notes that the prisoners are "seeing a good time" and spend
their hours in leisure and play
Richmond
Enquirer
7/15/1862; many letters have been received
complaining of conditions in the hospitals - call for reform
Richmond
Enquirer
7/16/1862; call for improvements in
memorialization at Oakwood Cemetery
Richmond
Enquirer
7/16/1862; inside of Capitol building in
festooned with captured United States flags
Richmond
Enquirer
7/19/1862; 8000 (probably 9000) prisoners are
in Richmond - 3000 at Libby, 5000 at Belle Isle
Richmond
Enquirer
7/19/1862; mortality among wounded prisoners is
very great - 20 died at the York River RR depot
Richmond
Enquirer
7/19/1862; free negro steals sheets and
pillow-slips from Winder Hospital, and gets fifteen lashes
Richmond
Enquirer
7/21/1862; slave steals a pocket-book at the
Baptist Female Institute and sent to prison
Richmond
Enquirer
8/2/1862; the hospitals on Main street are now
mostly closed, with the patients sent elsewhere
Richmond
Enquirer
8/2/1862; tar burning is now used to disinfect
the hospitals
Richmond
Enquirer
8/2/1862; blacksmiths and strikers needed at
the Tredegar Iron Works
Richmond
Enquirer
8/4/1862; officer escapes from the Officer's
Prison on 18th Street - details on the layout of the prison
Richmond
Enquirer
8/4/1862; canal basin was drained to prevent
stagnation of water - many animal corpses found at the bottom
Richmond
Enquirer
8/5/1862; Yankee officers moved from the prison
on 18th street to the Libby Prison
Richmond
Enquirer
8/5/1862; federal officer who escaped from
prison recaptured, lists those arrested for abetting the escape
Richmond
Enquirer
8/6/1862; fatal accident at the C. S.
Laboratory on Brown's Island - explosion of fulminating powder
Richmond
Enquirer
8/6/1862; Great description of the Military
District of Richmond - gives details on Winder's office, Castle Godwin,
Castle "Grizzly" (Griswold) at the corner of 6th and Cary street
Richmond
Enquirer
8/8/1862; correction regarding the city of
origin of the man recently killed at the C. S. Laboratory
Richmond
Enquirer
8/11/1862; excellent description of the Howard
Hospital (GH#22)
Richmond
Enquirer
8/11/1862; man and woman charged with stealing
$400 worth of supplies from Winder Hospital
Richmond
Enquirer
8/25/1862; Louisiana Zouave, evading police,
jumps out of a window of the Columbian hotel, fractures his skull, taken to
Baskerville Hospital, and later dies
Richmond
Enquirer
8/25/1862; slave given fifteen lashes for
stealing surgical instruments from Dr. C. B. Gibson
Richmond
Enquirer
8/27/1862; great description of the Engineer
Bureau Hospital on the corner of 18th and Cary street (used for laborers on
the fortifications)
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