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Added November 29, 2000
New York
Times 7/7/1895; 1866 letter from Thomas P. Turner,
commandant of Libby Prison, detailing his escape to Cuba; with engraved
image
Added November 25, 2000
Added November 22, 2000
Richmond
Dispatch 7/1/1862; $1200 in counterfeit C. S. notes
found in Libby Prison; Gen. Winder has declared possession of bogus notes
a criminal offense.
Richmond
Dispatch 7/1/1862; Seaman's Bethel church, 20th street,
has been taken as a hospital
Richmond
Dispatch 7/1/1862; any more Yankees brought to the city
will be housed in Warwick and Barksdale's mills (Gallego Mills)
Richmond
Dispatch 7/2/1862; Cooks and nurses needed at GH#27
Richmond
Dispatch 7/2/1862; 20 male nurses and 10 laundresses
needed at Union Hotel Hospital (GH#10)
Richmond
Dispatch 7/4/1862; donations needed at Bacon &
Baskerville Hospital (GH#7)
Richmond
Dispatch 7/4/1862; wounded soldiers at the Old Market
Hall and at the store of Angus and Byerly need supplies
Richmond
Dispatch 7/8/1862; Wet nurse needed at Robertson
Hospital
Richmond
Dispatch 7/8/1862; Bosher's Hospital needs 2 cooks
Richmond
Dispatch 7/10/1862; captured negroes are being used to
inter the dead in Oakwood Cemetery
Richmond
Dispatch 7/11/1862; inmates at Castle Godwin have been
thinning out
Richmond
Dispatch 7/12/1862; Hollywood Cemetery is expanding to
accommodate the Confederate dead
Richmond
Dispatch 7/12/1862; Description of the guards of the
bridges over the James River
Richmond
Dispatch 7/12/1862; Many unburied dead are lying about
in Oakwood Cemetery; appeal for workers
Richmond
Dispatch 7/14/1862; 4 male nurses and 4 negroes needed
at Louisiana Hospital
Richmond
Dispatch 7/14/1862; 2 cooks and 3 laundresses needed at
Central Depot Hospital
Richmond
Dispatch 7/14/1862; 10 gallons of milk needed daily at
Central Depot Hospital
Richmond
Dispatch 7/14/1862; 1 cook and 1 laundress needed at
Camp Lee Hospital
Richmond
Dispatch 7/14/1862; 5 washerwomen needed at Keen
Hospital (GH#6)
Richmond
Dispatch 7/17/1862; several hundred Yankees have arrived
from Savage's Station and will be put on Belle Isle. Prisoners are
anticipating exchange
Richmond
Dispatch 7/21/1862; patient has been shot at Louisiana
Hospital by one of the guard. The offending parties are in Castle Godwin
Richmond
Enquirer 8/8/1862; escaped federal officers have been
recaptured and put in Greanor prison
Richmond
Enquirer 8/8/1862; prisons will soon be empty due to
exchanges
National
Tribune 8/20/1891; good account of life in Richmond
prisons in 1861
Added November 13, 2000
National
Tribune 9/5/1889; account of kind treatment
on Belle Isle of a drummer-boy imprisoned there
National
Tribune 12/18/1889; account of the 4th of
July celebration in Libby Prison during 1863 by Louis Beaudry, the former
editor of the "Libby Chronicle"
National
Tribune 1/1/1891; excellent description of Crew and
Pemberton Prisons and account of a "sugar raid"
National
Tribune 2/19/1891; brief response to the 1/1/1891
Tribune article concerning the sugar raid and Crew and Pemberton Prisons
National
Tribune 12/31/1891; brief account of incarceration in
Pemberton Prison
National
Tribune 6/2/1892; account of prisoners stealing flour
from the cellar of Libby Prison
National
Tribune 11/10/1892; "Belle Isle
Revisited," gives account of the author's trip to Belle Isle and
notes its changes
Added November 10, 2000
Richmond
Enquirer 10/21/1851; John Enders, builder of
many Richmond warehouses (including the one that became Libby Prison), has
died in a fall
Richmond
Whig 9/27/1861; Fire at the C. S. Laboratory - urges
movement of laboratory from a central location for safety reasons
Richmond
Enquirer 7/29/1862; hospital directory
Richmond
Enquirer 8/8/1862; hospital directory
National
Tribune 7/11/1889; Details of the
dog-killing incident at Belle Isle - notes regarding a female soldier
found there
National
Tribune 3/27/1890; excellent description of
the tunneling effort at Libby Prison by one of the tunneling party (W. S.
B. Randall, 2nd Ohio Inf.) - slightly different from Moran's account
Added November 4, 2000
Richmond
Whig 9/16/1861; Louisiana soldier, shot by a South
Carolinian, dies in St. Charles Hospital
Richmond
Whig 9/17/1861; references to recent POW escapes,
says guards are more interested in keeping citizens out than prisoners in
Harper's Monthly Magazine (June 1911),
pp. 86-99. Beymer, William Gilmore. "Miss Van Lew."
Excellent, but lengthy, description of Van Lew's Unionist activities in
Richmond during the war
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