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Added September 20, 2001
Richmond
Dispatch 4/8/1861; Franklin & Co has
received a large collection of stereo views and viewers
Richmond
Whig
7/27/1861;
list of wounded from First Manassas at the various private locations
around the city. Many in St. Charles Hotel and Springfield Hall
Richmond
Whig 7/30/1861; additional
list
of wounded from First Manassas at the various private locations around the
city. Many in St. Charles Hotel and Springfield Hall
Richmond
Dispatch 5/13/1862; excellent description of
the proliferation of prostitution in Richmond, of "both sexes."
Pittsburgh
Gazette 7/21/1862; list of western
Pennsylvania prisoners in "Hope Prison" in Richmond
Philadelphia
Press 7/22/1862; lists of Pennsylvania
prisoners in Richmond; describes prison of Reynolds and McCall
Richmond
Dispatch 5/8/1863; City Jail has been left
unguarded, and there have been several escapes
Richmond
Dispatch 12/16/1888; "Our Richmond Mobs;"
details on the Bread Riot, the evacuation mob, and others
Richmond
Dispatch 12/16/1888; engineer is in Richmond making
drawing of Libby Prison, preparatory to moving it to Chicago. A fence has
been erected around the prison, and citizens wishing to see it are charged
admission
Richmond
Dispatch 6/1/1889; obituary notice for Samuel
P. Moore, former Surgeon-General of the Confederacy
Clark,
History of the 39th Illinois 1889; notes that the Union XXIV
Corps hospital is located at Camp Lee, gives details on surgeons,
etc.
National
Tribune 7/12/1900; good account of the fall of Richmond
in 1865, by a boy who lived on Church Hill; notes that advancing Union
troops were fired upon from convalescent patients from Chimborazo
Winchester
Evening Star 9/10/1913; decent account of Elizabeth Van Lew
and her spying efforts in Richmond
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Richmond
Whig 1/1/1862; use of the Alms House (GH#1)
is being urged to be returned to the poor
Richmond
Whig 1/10/1862; Artillery company from
Chesterfield County will be mustered in at Battery No. 15; local defense
force is being raised at Springfield Hall (GH#26)
Richmond
Whig 1/15/1862; there have been 550
burials at Oakwood cemetery so far
Richmond
Whig 4/28/1862; Franklin Stearns has been
released from Castle Godwin, and returns home
Richmond
Whig 6/4/1862; attendants are needed at
the hospitals; St. Charles Hospital is in a very nasty condition
Richmond
Whig 6/5/1862; 103 patients are at the
Kent Hospital (GH#5); list of six soldiers who have died there
Richmond
Whig 6/6/1862; 20 nurses needed at
General Hospital #1
Richmond
Whig 6/21/1862; Henningsen Hospital
receives supplies
Richmond
Whig 7/7/1862; fire breaks out in Bacon
& Baskerville Hospital (GH#7)
Richmond
Whig 7/7/1862; advocation for local
photographers to photograph the battlefields
Richmond
Whig 7/8/1862; Ezell Hospital has opened
in Crawford's old Saloon
Richmond
Whig 7/29/1862; Maryland Hospital is not
very well attended to
Richmond
Whig 8/13/1862; excellent description of
Camp Lee and how it has changed since its use as a fair grounds; advocates
sanitary measures be taken
Richmond
Dispatch 5/12/1863; detailed description of
the arrival in Richmond of Stonewall Jackson's remains and the procession
through the city
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
National
Tribune 9/2/1882; description of harsh
conditions on Belle Isle and brief account of the "dog slaying"
incident
National
Tribune 2/14/1884; brief account of prisoner's
experience in Libby, Pemberton, Belle Isle, and Andersonville; notes that
small pox broke out in Pemberton
National
Tribune 2/14/1884; description of how Belle Isle was
set up as a prison by captured Gaines' Mill prisoners from Libby
Added September 5, 2001
Richmond
Enquirer 7/8/1862; note on the capture of
the C.S.S. Teaser, and prediction that northern types will exaggerate her
size
Richmond
Enquirer 7/8/1862; humorous tombstone of a
Yankee found on the battlefield
Augusta
(GA) Constitutionalist 1/6/1863; good descriptions of the
First and Second Georgia Hospitals (GHs#16 & 14)
Richmond
Examiner 4/4/1863; account of the trials of
several of the bread rioters, great details on individual cases, including
Mary Jackson and Dr. Thomas M. Palmer, surgeon at the Florida Hospital (GH#11)
Richmond
Examiner 4/6/1863; account of the trials of
several of the bread rioters, great details on individual cases
Richmond
Examiner 4/6/1863; the Richmond City
Battalion (25th Bn VA Inf) is understood to be leaving the city for active
service due to unsavory types infesting its ranks
Richmond
Examiner 4/6/1863; Canal Basin bridge at 8th
street, which collapsed under the weight of passing Yankee prisoners, is
annoying by its absence
Richmond
Examiner 4/8/1863; account of the trials of
several of the bread rioters, great details on individual cases
Richmond
Dispatch 5/12/1863; editorial regarding the
death of Gen. Stonewall Jackson
National
Tribune 1/10/1884; notes on the opening date of Belle
Isle
National
Tribune 1/6/1887; good description of the "dog
slaying" episode on Belle Isle
National
Tribune 3/11/1888; brief account of a prisoner being
shot on Belle Isle for going near the "dead line"
Added September 4, 2001
Richmond
Dispatch 7/10/1862; Good description of the Danville
Railroad Hospital (GH#28)
Sally
Tompkins letter (no provenance) 6/9/1864; letter to W. A. Carrington,
explaining details of the hospital in regard to number of patients and
Surgeon Garnett. Carrington sought to shut down the hospital.
National Tribune 5/14/1885; excellent account by Col. Thomas
Rose of the organization and completion of the Libby Prison tunnel
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