|
Richmond
Enquirer |
1/19/1861; opening notice of the Spotswood Hotel |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/1/1861; Spotswood Hotel has
been opened |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/15/1861; Catesby Jones and Capt.
Pegram are at the Exchange Hotel; M. F. Maury and R. M. T. Hunter are at
the Spotswood |
|
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 |
4/20/1861; Richmond Howitzers have
moved into their new quarters under the Spotswood Hotel |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
4/23/1861; description of the
arrival of Col. Robert E. Lee into Richmond and speech from the Spotswood
Hotel |
|
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 |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/1/1861; Description of the
arrival of Gen. Beauregard at the Spotswood Hotel |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/20/1861; New Orleans Washington
Artillery serenades President Davis at the Spotswood Hotel |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/17/1861; Hotel arrivals; Dr. Thom
and Thomas Clingman are at the Spotswood |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
7/24/1861; "Gen."
(President) Davis gives an inspirational speech from the Spotswood Hotel |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
8/3/1861; 3 Chambermaids and a
Porter are needed at the Spotswood Hotel |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
11/2/1861;
Adv. for cooks to
operate Spotswood Hotel kitchen |
|
Richmond
Whig |
1/3/1862; J. W. Hoeniger becomes
proprietor of the Spotswood Hotel. Notes that he is very young |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
1/17/1862; woman convicted of stealing bed clothing from Spotswood |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
1/28/1862;
little boys caught & fined for throwing
stones at Spotswood |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
2/10/1862;
John Bankhead Magruder arrives in Richmond
on 2/8; R. H. Anderson and other notables are at the Spotswood |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
4/17/1862; French diplomat in town, at Spotswood Hotel |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
6/4/1862; long
article on RR accident in city, on 8th st - two injuries, canal bridge
damaged, etc. On tracks connecting R&P w/ RF&P. Also boy run over on Broad,
on connecting tracts between RF&P & Va. Cent. Byrd Island Hospital and
Spotswood Hotel mentioned. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/2/1862; nearly
1000 POWs arrived on 7/1. Some officers named. McCall at Spotswood – paroled
to stay in city. He will be moved to “the quarters now being prepared on 18th
street” when they are ready for “all the abolition officers” |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/4/1862; hospitals opened at
Bosher's carriage factory and Lainers' warehouse (under the Spotswood) |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/5/1862; Gens. McCall, Reynolds
& Rankin have been moved from the Spotswood Hotel to
"Bond's" warehouse on 18th st. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/9/1862; 4 or 5
white girls needed for chores at Spotswood Hotel. Also first-class cook |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/9/1862; Walter
Coles in charge of Bosher & Spotswood Hotel hospital. Thanks donors by name.
Hoge is among the contributors. |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
7/11/1862; Spotswood Hotel and Danville RR shop to be used
as hospitals |
|
Pittsburgh Gazette |
7/17/1862; description of the capture of Gen.
McCall – notes that he is being quartered at the Spotswood Hotel in Richmond |
|
Pennsylvania
Daily Telegraph |
7/23/1862; letter from General Geo.
A. McCall describing his imprisonment; notes that one of his officers is
held in Chimborazo Hospital |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
7/28/1862;
escaped thief caught – sent to Castle Godwin. He had attempted to rob a man
at the Spotswood Hotel. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
8/5/1862;
Spotswood Hotel adv for housekeeping help. Also bakers & pastry cooks. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
8/18/1862; Dr. W.
L. Henderson at Howard’s Grove lost Colt #97,618 “somewhere between the
Spotswood and Exchange Hotels” |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
8/29/1862; A. B.
Martin, private in Washington Artillery, arrested at Spotswood for stealing
120 letters from post office. Sent to Castle Thunder |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
8/29/1862; Jno.
B. Cary, at Maj. Booker’s office under Spotswood Hotel, hiring out negro
woman |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/4/1862; George
H. Steuart arrives at Spotswood Hotel, 9/3 |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/29/1862; G. B.
Anderson & R. S. Ripley at Spotswood on 9/27; Wm. Mahone at Exchange Hotel |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
9/30/1862; All
members of Richmond Grays (G12Va) to report at Spotswood Hotel for duty |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/7/1862;
Mayor’s Court: James Williams, drunk soldier, sent to Castle Thunder; Hoenniger
charges men with burglary, room #44 Spotswood Hotel; slave charged with
stealing money from guest at the Ballard House (discharged); free negro
without papers ordered whipped for smoking a cigar in the street; another
free negro threatens boy in Second Market & used “indecent language” –
ordered to be whipped. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/21/1862; Gen.
Loring & staff, Col. Henry Fitzhugh & Mrs. J. Floyd King, are at the
Spotswood Hotel |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
10/27/1862; Elzey
at Spotswood Hotel 10/25/ Bragg & staff at Exchange & Ballard |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/6/1862;
Mayor’s Court: Jas. Pearson, of Drewry’s Bluff command, jailed for assault;
woman tried for stealing $10 worth of silverware from Spotswood; details on
E. Hunter Taliaferro case |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/8/1862;
Mayor’s Court: J. R. Anderson slave whipped for stealing wood; Mulatto
arraigned and whipped for “impudence” to the watchman of the Spotswood
Hotel; Police raid Locust Alley – several prostitutes arrested, as well as
their “visitors” |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/11/1862;
report on meeting of city citizens for shoes – J. L. Burrows, 1st Baptist
Church, chairman. $4-5 thousand raised on the spot. List of committee
members for various wards including Luther Libby, Wm. Greanor, Jno. R.
Ballard, T. W. Hoeniger, James H. Grant, Joel B. Watkins, General J. R.
Anderson & many more. One group to meet at J. R. Anderson’s home. |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/11/1862; T. W.
Hoeniger donates 100 cords of wood for city’s poor |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/13/1862; T. W.
Hoeniger offering booze for sale, Spotswood Hotel, legally |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/14/1862;
mulatto charged with impudent behavior at Spotswood evicted from city |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/19/1862; Man
gets 4 years for Spotswood robbery |
|
Richmond Dispatch |
11/20/1862;
Booker’s detectives raid restaurant near the Spotswood Hotel looking for
booze. Violators locked up in “Freeland’s factory, corner 6th and
Cary streets” awaiting trial. |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
3/14/1863; Colonel Quantrell is in Richmond,
and staying at the Spotswood Hotel |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
4/7/1863; The Spotswood Hotel is
enlarging its facilities |
|
Richmond
Examiner |
4/9/1863; denial of the rumor that
the Spotswood Hotel is closing |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/28/1863; post office has been removed from
the Custom House to the basement of the Spotswood Hotel |
|
Richmond
Whig |
1/2/1864; Gen. J. H. Morgan will
arrive in town soon and be conducted to the Spotswood Hotel |
|
Richmond
Whig |
1/4/1864; Gen. Morgan will probably
arrive tomorrow. Lodgings have been secured at the Ballard House |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/13/1864; "William F. Corkley,
proprietor of the Spotswood Hotel" is arrested for violating the anti-liquor
law by selling brandy in the bar of the hotel |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
7/18/1864; Worker at the Spotswood hotel
arrested for selling whiskey at the bar, but released. |
|
Richmond
Whig |
7/18/1864; the anti-liquor law case
of William F. Corkley, proprietor of the Spotswood Hotel, is dismissed |
|
Richmond
Whig |
8/16/1864; man who fell from a third
floor window at the Spotswood has a fair chance of recovery |
|
Richmond
Sentinel |
9/26/1864; man falls from a fifth
story window of the Spotswood Hotel and is killed |
|
Richmond
Whig |
9/26/1864; man falls from a fifth
story window of the Spotswood Hotel and is killed |
|
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
Whig |
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 |
12/5/1864; Vice President
Stephens is at the Spotswood |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/7/1865; More hotels are wanted in Richmond -
the Spotswood is the only one operating |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/7/1865; last rebel and first union patrons at
the Spotswood hotel |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/7/1865; new (Northern) owners of the
Spotswood Hotel |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/11/1865; Maj. Gen. Silas Casey is
staying at the Spotswood Hotel |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/12/1865; call for more hotels to re-open |
|
Richmond
Whig |
4/14/1865; A. R. Waud, among others, is staying
at the Spotswood Hotel |
|
Richmond
Whig |
5/15/1865; Maj. Gen. Wright is staying at the
Spotswood Hotel |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/26/1870; account of the Spotswood
Hotel fire, including many vignettes of of close escapes, and accounts of
the deaths of Erasmus Ross, former clerk of Libby Prison, and others. |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
12/28/1870; more details of the
Spotswood Hotel fire |
|
Richmond
Dispatch |
6/30/1894;
great description of Richmond for the Confederate reunion, focusing on how
much has changed since the war |
|
National
Tribune |
8/17/1899; “A Union Man in Richmond;” part five of
serial account. Describes the scene in Richmond in early to mid-1863.
Mentions hedonistic activity at the Exchange, Ballard and Spotswood hotels;
prostitution and gambling flourishing in Richmond around the Exchange Hotel;
trying to get a pass out of Richmond from Gen. Winder; and subsequent trip
to Staunton on the railroad |
