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Added April 28, 2008
Richmond Dispatch
10/20/1862;
“Charles Cluts” 7NC, falls from upper window of Franklin street barracks,
lands on open door, breaks back, perched there dead
Richmond Dispatch
10/20/1862; 630
POWs sent away 10/19 by flag of truce
Richmond Dispatch
10/20/1862; W.
Wilson, steward at Keen Hospital, adv for 2 negro men & 4 negro women
Richmond Dispatch
10/21/1862; David
W. Rogers, to be shot, escaped from upper floor of Castle Thunder
Richmond Dispatch
10/21/1862; 30
disloyal Tennesseans lodged at Libby – sent to Varina yesterday
Richmond Dispatch
10/21/1862;
25VaBn barracks south side of basin. To have drill today at Camp Lee &
Capitol Square
Richmond Dispatch
10/21/1862; 55
men, soldiers & civilian, captured by JEB Stuart, arrived for Libby
Richmond Dispatch
10/21/1862; Gen.
Loring & staff, Col. Henry Fitzhugh & Mrs. J. Floyd King, are at the
Spotswood Hotel
Richmond Dispatch
10/22/1862; 17
deserters & stragglers added Castle Thunder yesterday
Richmond Dispatch
10/22/1862; A.
Brogden, Asst. Surg. Keen Hospital adv for lost horse
Richmond Dispatch
10/22/1862;
Mitchell & McCarthy, lumber dealers, adv for 10 or 12 carpenters “to work on
hospitals”
Richmond Dispatch
10/23/1862; 42
deserters from NC put into Castle Thunder on 10/22. 100 inmates to head for
ANV today. J. T. Smith, robbery, to Castle Thunder yesterday. Also a bogus
Provost officer.
Richmond Dispatch
10/23/1862; 24
POWs captured at Haymarket arrive at Libby
Richmond Dispatch
10/23/1862; negro
convicted of stealing bushel of flour from Camp Winder bakery
Richmond Dispatch
10/23/1862; G. W.
Alexander adv – found stray mule
Richmond Dispatch
10/23/1862; 6
laundresses wanted at Camp Winder Hospital, Division #1, white or black
Richmond Dispatch
10/24/1862; Rees
applying for “photograph and ambrotype operators”
Richmond Dispatch
10/25/1862;
runaway notice, Bellevue Hospital
Richmond Dispatch
10/25/1862; List
of 5 women now at Castle Thunder. Also Wm. Patterson & Wm. Morris, 15 Va.,
deserters & Geo. H. Munford/Jos. Bradford, Dabney’s Hvy. Artillery, to be
court martialled
Added April 27, 2008
Richmond Dispatch
10/15/1862; D. W.
Rogers, G1Va at Castle Thunder, to be shot at Camp Lee, 10/18
Richmond Dispatch
10/15/1862;
member of the Richmond Blues put in Castle Booker for desertion
Richmond Dispatch
10/15/1862; J. B.
McCaw, Chimborazo Hospital, adv for stray mule
Richmond Dispatch
10/15/1862; B.
Roemer, Surg. in charge, Henningsen Hospital, “Locust Alley”
Richmond Dispatch
10/15/1862; J. S.
Dorset, steward at GH#1, selling milch cows
Richmond Dispatch
10/16/1862;
friends of G. W. Alexander present him with “splendid” horse, saddle, bridle
Richmond Dispatch
10/16/1862; 2
Castle Thunder escapees recaught. – John Toley & Patrick Donviere
Richmond Dispatch
10/16/1862; 6 new
prisoners recd. 10/13 – Jas. Lynch, Barney McNamee & Wm. Rogers of
Whittingham’s Arty. (bread & water); F. L. Smith of Culpeper (disloyalty) &
J. H. Weeks/Wm. Weeks of Culpeper (piloting enemy)
Richmond Dispatch
10/16/1862; 540
Yankee POWs from Tennessee arrive 10/15 – quartered at Libby
Richmond Dispatch
10/16/1862; 4
Yankee POWs, 1st Md. Cavy, arrive. Wanted for war crimes in Valley.
Richmond Dispatch
10/17/1862;
Escape attempt at Castle Thunder foiled. To benefit Rogers, the 1Va soldier
due to be shot.
Richmond Dispatch
10/17/1862; 9th
Pa. Cavalry Colonel moved from Libby to Castle Thunder – under accusations
of bad behavior in Tennessee. Also 17 deserters arrived there from South & 4
1st Md. (US) Cavalry charged with murder
Richmond Dispatch
10/18/1862; 3
Henrico citizens put in Castle Thunder for stealing govt. wood: Jno.
Kilgrove; Thos. & Robt. Oakley
Richmond Dispatch
10/18/1862; James
M. Levert sent to Castle Thunder – impersonating Provost Guard
Richmond Dispatch
10/18/1862;
Andrew J. Rodgers, commanding company at Battery #17, orders in absentees
Added April 13, 2008
Richmond Dispatch
10/8/1862;
unsigned adv for lost cow, strayed “from the advertiser, living on
Chimborazo Hill (Goodman’s Brewery)”
Richmond Dispatch
10/8/1862; R. M.
Patterson, Asst. Surgeon in Charge, Clopton Hospital, orders those in
private quarters to report
Richmond Dispatch
10/8/1862; gang
of thugs roaming Church Hill
Richmond Dispatch
10/8/1862; Mr.
Wood, keeper of Old Capitol Prison in Washington, arrives in Richmond to
negotiate for prisoners; 243 “political or civil” prisoners now in Libby
Richmond Dispatch
10/8/1862; Castle
Thunder hospital closed 10/7 & 60 plus patients there moved to Libby
Richmond Dispatch
10/9/1862; D. F.
Booth opens a new auction house under St. Charles Hotel
Richmond Dispatch
10/9/1862; 3
negro men wanted at Byrd Island Hospital
Richmond Dispatch
10/9/1862; White
male nurse wanted at St. Francis de Sales
Richmond Dispatch
10/10/1862; Thos.
J. Bagby’s office under St. Charles Hotel
Richmond Dispatch
10/10/1862;
descriptive list of 5 CSMC AWOLs from Drewry’s Bluff
Richmond Dispatch
10/10/1862; Jno.
D. K. Sleight, Supt. YMCA Hospital, names 8 or 10 women who have been
helpful
Richmond Dispatch
10/10/1862; GH#9
announced as Receiving Hospital
Richmond Dispatch
10/10/1862; Great
description of failed escape attempt, Castle Thunder
Richmond Dispatch
10/10/1862; 50
CSA prisoners – presumably Castle Thunder – to be sent to ANV today
Richmond Dispatch
10/10/1862; C. D.
Rice, Howard’s Grove, wants to hire black nurses, male or female
Richmond Dispatch
10/10/1862;
auction of condemned tents to be held in front of Libby Prison
Richmond Dispatch
10/11/1862; Death
notice of Saml. Hardgrove, d. 10/10/1862, age 65, Manchester residence.
Richmond Dispatch
10/11/1862;
Frances F. Jannison, of NY, arrested in Culpeper Co. as spy. Sent to Castle
Thunder.
Richmond Dispatch
10/11/1862; Kent
& Paine cleaning warehouse, relinquished by Govt., & will re-open there
soon.
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