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Richmond
Whig 8/9/1861; St. Charles Hospital (GH#8) has been
spreading sawdust on the road to keep it quiet
Richmond
Whig 8/9/1861; appeal for Congress to establish a
"National Hospital" in the mountains
Richmond
Whig 8/10/1861; appeal for the Alms House to be
occupied by Confederate wounded, and the Yankees moved out. Praises the
hospital as a " large
and airy building"
Richmond
Whig 8/14/1861; recommendation that negroes be
employed as hospital assistants and that Yankees be moved out of the Alms
House
Richmond
Whig 8/17/1861; reiteration of appeal to move
Yankees out of Alms House
Richmond
Whig 8/20/1861; Sycamore Church establishes
hospital in their lecture-room
Richmond
Whig 8/21/1861; gratuitous praise of the nearly
complete Richmond fortifications
Richmond
Whig 8/31/1861; Richmond Female Institute (later GH#4)
will remain open
Richmond
Whig 8/31/1861; description of Sycamore Hospital
Richmond
Whig 9/3/1861; great description of the Richmond
prisons and some of the prisoners; notes that there are 1725 prisoners in
Richmond
Richmond
Whig 9/4/1861; the new city passenger railway is
now in use
Richmond
Whig 9/4/1861; "Shockoe Hill Cats" and
"Butcher Cats," local youth gangs, are menacing Navy Hill,
between 4th and 7th streets, with their weekly stone battles
Richmond
Whig 9/10/1861; description of a rock battle
between the "Shockoe Hill Cats" and "Butcher Cats,"
and the police raid that stopped it
Richmond
Whig 9/10/1861; 15 deaths in the 16th Georgia
regiment at Camp Lee in one week
Richmond
Whig 9/16/1861; four Yankee prisoners escape from
prison depot, two are shot and the others are recaptured
Richmond
Whig 7/9/1862; classified notice of a wounded North
Carolinian in Winder Hospital
Added October 29, 2000
Richmond
Whig 7/2/1861; Letter from the Richmond Zouaves at
Camp Lee
Richmond
Whig 7/2/1861; laborers needed for the Richmond
defenses
Richmond
Whig 7/2/1861; fire at the State Penitentiary
Richmond
Whig 7/4/1861; fatal explosion at the Armory
Richmond
Whig 7/4/1861; lamentation regarding the use of the
new city railroad
Richmond
Whig 7/9/1861; description of the "cartridge
factory", later the C. S. Arsenal, and cautions regarding safety
Richmond
Whig 7/9/1861; boys near Jackson and 5th streets
are engaging in being "evil disposed boys"
Richmond
Whig 7/11/1861; soldiers have been buried in an
open field near the Alms House - advocates using Oakwood Cemetery for
soldier interments
Richmond
Whig 7/11/1861; percussion caps will be
manufactured at Brown's Island
Richmond
Whig 7/24/1861; citizen's committee designates St.
Charles hotel for use as a hospital
Richmond
Whig 7/24/1861; escape attempt at the State
Penitentiary
Richmond
Whig 7/25/1861; wounded soldiers and Yankee
prisoners are arriving in Richmond
Richmond
Whig 7/26/1861; "Prison depot," at corner
of Main and 25th street is being visited by curious Richmonders
Richmond
Whig 7/26/1861; new private hospital in schoolhouse
at corner of 10th and Clay streets.
Richmond
Whig 7/26/1861; soldier is attacked by another
soldier and dies at the Alms House
Richmond
Whig 7/31/1861; wounded Yankees complain about the
General Hospital (GH#1)
Richmond
Whig 7/31/1861; prisoner shot at for talking out
the windows of his prison
Richmond
Whig 7/31/1861; list of wounded soldiers in private
houses can be seen at the St. Charles Hotel (GH#8)
Richmond
Whig 8/1/1861; details on private hospitals in
school-houses on Clay street
Richmond
Whig 8/3/1861; description of hospital facilities
in Richmond ( St.
Charles Hotel, Masons’ Hall)
Richmond
Whig 8/3/1861; "The Life Guard," and
"Capt. Bayly's company" are at Camp Lee
Richmond
Whig 8/3/1861; President Davis ad family have moved
into their home at 12th and Clay streets
Richmond
Whig 8/5/1861; description of the "prison
depot," particularly Harwood's factory, and recommendations for
treatment of prisoners
Richmond
Whig 8/6/1861; ladies of St. James Episcopal Church
have obtained Judge Robertson's house, corner of 3rd and Main, for use as
a hospital (later Robertson Hospital)
Added October 5, 2000
Anonymous. “Memorial to Miss
Sallie Tompkins ,” CV 24 (1916), p. 484
Richmond
Dispatch
7/5/1862;
warehouse
of Dunlop, Moncure & Co. has been taken as a hospital
Richmond
Whig
4/15/1865; incredible list of the property
destroyed in the evacuation fire
Richmond
Whig
4/20/1865; great description of the
"Antiquities of Richmond"
Richmond
Whig
4/20/1865; description of the observance
of Abraham Lincoln's funeral in Richmond
Richmond
Whig
5/19/1865; Official directory of Union officials
in Richmond
Added October 4, 2000 Anonymous, “‘Captain’
Sally Tompkins ,” Confederate Veteran 16 (1908), p. 72
Bayne, Thomas Livingston. "Life in Richmond, 1863-1865. " CV 30, pp. 100-101.
Coleman, Elizabeth Dabney. "The
Captain Was a Lady ." Virginia Cavalcade , vol. 6 (summer
1956-spring 1957), pp. 35-41.
Ripley,
Edward H., "Final Scenes at the
Capture and Occupation of Richmond, April 3, 1865. " NY MOLLUS ,
Vol. III, 1907, pp. 472-502
Sturgis, H. H. "About the Burning of Richmond. " CV 17, p. 474.
Taylor, Mrs. Fielding Lewis, “Capt.
Sallie Tompkins ,” CV 24 (1916), p. 521-524
Watehall, E. T. "Fall of Richmond, April 2, 1865. " CV 17, p. 24.
Richmond
Enquirer 1/21/1862; details for the funeral of
ex-president John Tyler, to be held tomorrow
Richmond
Enquirer 2/19/1862; 397 federal prisoners to be
exchanged; list of officers exchanged and for whom
Richmond
Dispatch 1/12/1863; lime is spread on the
floor at Castle Thunder and prevents Smallpox
Richmond
Examiner 5/11/1863; two prisoners at Castle
Thunder die of Small Pox
Richmond
Examiner 5/7/1864; rumor that 100 officers in Libby
Prison will be sent to Danville
Richmond
Dispatch 7/6/1864; notes on federal
deserters in Castle Thunder; 68 federal deserters moved from Castle
Thunder to Libby Prison
Richmond
Whig 4/24/1865; Dr. Charles Bell Gibson, former
surgeon of GH#1, has died
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