Richmond
Enquirer |
1/1/1861; advertisement for a slave dealer
underneath the St. Charles Hotel |
Richmond
Enquirer |
1/4/1861; notice of improvements at Tredegar
Iron Works |
Richmond
Enquirer |
1/8/1861; Governor Letcher extols the virtues
of VMI and its utility to the State |
Richmond
Enquirer |
1/19/1861; opening notice of the Spotswood
Hotel |
Richmond
Enquirer |
3/23/1861; ad for commission merchants Bacon &
Baskervill (future GH#7) |
Richmond
Enquirer |
3/28/1861; ad for the summer schedule of
classes at the Medical College - McCaw and Gibson are listed as professors;
students will have access to patients at Bellevue Hospital and Alms House
free of charge |
Richmond
Enquirer |
4/15/1861; excellent description of the
reaction in Richmond to the news of the fall of Ft. Sumter - description of
parade to Tredegar Iron Works and Capitol Square - notes disappointed
reaction to Letcher's remarks, and the raising and subsequent lowering of
the Confederate flag on the Capitol roof; Judge Robertson makes a speech |
Richmond
Enquirer |
4/27/1861; list of troops at the new fair
grounds (Camp Lee); Col. Gilham is in command, and VMI cadets present |
Richmond
Enquirer |
4/27/1861; all VMI graduates and ex-cadets can
find employment at the Camp of Instruction (Camp Lee) |
Richmond
Enquirer |
4/27/1861; all volunteer companies will proceed
at once to the Hermitage Fair Grounds (Camp Lee) |
Richmond
Enquirer |
5/3/1861; list of southern cadets who have left
West Point, as well as those who refused to take the oath and resigned.
Pelham and T. P. Turner are amongst the number |
Richmond
Enquirer |
5/3/1861; prospective VMI cadets can apply to
the acting superintendent in Richmond - notes that the academic schedule has
been suspended, and cadets thus admitted will be trained free of charge
until the corps returns to Lexington |
Richmond
Enquirer |
5/15/1861; destructive fire at 20th and Cary
streets; Libby & Son building narrowly escapes |
Richmond
Enquirer |
5/31/1861; notes on the present state of
affairs at VMI, and advertises for new cadets - gives a table of tuition and
fees |