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Richmond
Dispatch |
4/22/1861; account of the
excitement caused by the erroneous rumor that a Federal gunboat was
ascending the James River. |
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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 |
5/20/1861; area near the old United
States Hotel (later GH#10) is the scene of bloody fights and drunken
revelry |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/27/1861; 2nd North Carolina
regiment has been camped at Howard's Grove |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/5/1861; Vicksburg Southrons
arrive and parade in Capitol Square; they are then quartered at the
Columbian Hotel |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/5/1861; Negroes are doing good
work on the fortifications at Marion Hill (Battery #2) |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
6/10/1861; women who want to
be nurses should apply to Mrs. A. F. Hopkins |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
6/10/1861; Mechanics'
Institute is being cleared out; the War Department and Patent Office will
soon have their offices here |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
6/10/1861; Dr. Bolton of
Bellevue Hospital thanks the ladies of Church Hill for their help with the
sick soldiers |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
6/10/1861; Tredegar Iron Works
needs timber to build large building (probably the new gun foundry) |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
6/10/1861; Tredegar Iron Works
needs carriage wheels |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
6/10/1861; Tredegar Iron Works
needs Wheelwrights and Blacksmiths |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/13/1861; four prisoners of war
arrive in Richmond |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/13/1861; man brought in to
Mayor's court for allegedly keeping his bar open past ten o'clock |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
6/15/1861; a member of the New
Orleans Zouaves gets married at the St. Charles Hotel (later GH#8) |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
6/20/1861; New Orleans Washington
Artillery serenades President Davis at the Spotswood Hotel |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
6/20/1861; row of houses behind the
Exchange Hotel are occupied by parties of a "dubious
and uncertain character" |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/22/1861; City officials are
fitting up the Brockenbrough mansion for occupancy by President Davis |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
6/22/1861; the Henry Clay statue on
Capitol Square has become discolored by excessive handling |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
6/25/1861; Prisoner of war and a
civilian spy are brought to Richmond and confined in "the large white
building on the hill leading to Hollywood Cemetery" [probably VA
Penitentiary] |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
6/25/1861; names of U. S. prisoners
of war now confined in Richmond |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/25/1861; New Orleans Washington
Artillery leaves Richmond for Manassas |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/25/1861; prisoners arrive in
Richmond; the factory of Geo. Harwood (later GH#24) is being fitted up as
a prison depot |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/25/1861; slave of J. B. Royster
is arrested and punished for masquerading as a soldier |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/25/1861; Col. Gilham of VMI,
currently commandant of Camp of Instruction, is raising an infantry
regiment |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/27/1861; advertisement that the
warehouse of L. Libby & Son is available for storage - says it could
store 20,000 bushels of wheat or corn |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/27/1861; commencement exercises
for the Richmond Female Institute will be held tomorrow |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/28/1861; editorial commending the
efforts of Mrs. Judge Hopkins and other ladies providing nursing
care |
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Richmond
Examiner |
3/6/1862; Unionists and grog-sellers
have been confined in McDaniel's jail (Castle Godwin) |
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Wadesboro
North Carolina Argus |
6/19/1862; great description of
Robertson Hospital |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
7/12/1862; description of the
debate in City Council over Hollywood Cemetery's expansion and Oakwood's
problem with lack of laborers |
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Richmond
Examiner |
4/8/1863; many prisoners have
arrived at Libby Prison; a flag of truce exchanged prisoners yesterday |
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Richmond
Examiner |
4/8/1863; two Yankee POWs, who had
taken an oath of allegiance to the CSA, attempted to escape back to Union
lines and were recaptured and sent to Libby, then to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/8/1863; Surgeon F. W. Hancock is
in charge of receiving and distributing patients to the various hospitals
in Richmond |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
5/12/1863; detailed description of
the arrival of Gen. Stonewall Jackson's remains and the subsequent
procession to Capitol Square |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/15/1861; account of the response
in Richmond to the fall of Fort Sumter; extensive celebration and
flag-raising at the Tredegar Iron Works |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/16/1861; Ad (including rates) for
Bellevue Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/16/1861; Ad (including rates) for
Main Street Hospital for slaves |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/26/1861; want ad for a drummer
for the 1st South Carolina, stationed at the "New Poor House
Building" (future GH#1) |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/26/1861; Ad for Vannerson's
Photographic Gallery |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/8/1861; recruiting rendezvous for
Navy is at the warehouse of Libby & Son |
|
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; editorial concerning the
removal of the Confederate Capital to Richmond; very positive |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
5/11/1861; building adjacent to
Libby & Son's warehouse is still burning |
|
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 |
5/21/1861; 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 |
5/25/1861; house burns down
"opposite Hardgrove's factory" |
|
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 |
6/1/1861; Drill room of Co. G has
been converted into a hospital, 50 patients there now, mostly from
Tennessee |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/1/1861; Description of the
arrival of Gen. Beauregard at the Spotswood Hotel |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/1/1861; appeal for more workers
on the city defenses |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/3/1861; Customs house is being
readied for its occupancy by the Confederate Government |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/5/1861; Washington Artillery of
New Orleans has arrived in Richmond and is camping at Howard's Grove |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/7/1861; description of the
explosion at the house of a chemist who was mixing fulminating powder;
injured parties are at St. Francis de Sales Hospital |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/12/1861; ladies of Church
and Union Hills are nursing sick soldiers at Co. G Hall (later GH#27) and
Springfield Hall (later GH#26) |
|
Richmond
Enquirer |
7/15/1862; testimony from local
resident regarding the origin, and correct wording, of the term "Cold
Harbor" |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
4/7/1863; account of the trials of
several of the bread rioters, great details on individual cases |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
4/7/1863; account of the
arraignment of Thomas Palmer, Surgeon at the Florida Hospital; J. H.
Gilmer and G. W. Randolph are the accused's legal counsel |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
4/7/1863; The Spotswood Hotel is
enlarging its facilities |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
4/9/1863; more cases at the Mayor's
Court from the Bread Riot |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
5/7/1863; prisoner is shot and
killed while trying to escape Castle Thunder |
|
National
Tribune |
1/24/1884; account of the capture of the 4th
New Jersey at Gaines' Mill, and subsequent imprisonment in Libby Prison
and Belle Isle is the summer of 1862 |
|
National
Tribune |
6/13/1895; refutation of the claim that
prisoners at Belle Isle were "jolly fellows;" good details of
the harsh treatment, and attempts to escape |
