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Richmond Dispatch
12/17/1862; Maxcy
Gregg’s body arrived 12/15 – placed in Provost Marshal’s office. City
Battalion & Public Guard, with full band, escorted it to R&P RR depot 12/16
afternoon. Route of parade given. No Hollywood.
Richmond Dispatch
12/17/1862;
wounded men laying around untended at RF&P RR depot
Richmond Dispatch
12/17/1862;
Habeas Corpus case for 3 men confined in Castle Lightning
Richmond Dispatch
12/18/1862;
Yankee captain named A. C. Webster, WVa unit, put in Castle Thunder, on
12/17 for murder of CS prisoner in western VA
Richmond Dispatch
12/18/1862; 229
POWs arrive since Fredericksburg
Richmond Dispatch
12/18/1862; 469
POWs arrive for Libby on 12/17
Richmond Dispatch
12/18/1862; Geo.
W. Hitchcock, 18th Miss. & ACS at Libby & city prisons, died 12/17 at
Howard’s Grove, of smallpox
Richmond Dispatch
12/18/1862; large
list of new Castle Thunder inmates
Richmond Dispatch
12/18/1862; 2
vacant lots for sale, north side of Marshall near 23rd . Owned by
Mrs. Eliza. L. Van Lew
Richmond Dispatch
12/18/1862; an
organist needed at St. John’s Church
Richmond Dispatch
12/18/1862; J. B.
Jones, War Dept., adv for boarding for lady & three children, near an
Episcopal Church
Richmond Dispatch
12/18/1862; GH#7
adv - odd
Richmond Dispatch
12/19/1862; drunk
woman falls into the canal near Castle Thunder – infant drowns, she put in
the cage
Richmond Dispatch
12/19/1862; 1050
POWs at Libby as of 12/18 – list of some recent officer POWs. 200 wounded
POWs at Libby Hospital
Richmond Dispatch
12/19/1862;
renewed runaway slave notice, Luther Libby
Richmond Dispatch
12/19/1862;
Luther Libby adv. for white girl to do maid work
Richmond Dispatch
12/20/1862; L. L. Lee
“uneducated orator” to speak at African Church
Richmond Dispatch
12/20/1862; B20VaBnHA
absentees listed. Battery at #9, Richmond defenses.
Richmond Dispatch
12/20/1862; Supt.
Downer adv for two grinders at C. S. Armory. Col. H. W. Clowe is acting
master armorer
Richmond Dispatch
12/20/1862;
Michael Kearns in Castle Thunder., British subject, but recognized as
deserter from Letcher Artillery
Richmond Dispatch
12/20/1862; R. A.
Slaughter, E53Va., died 12/19 at Castle Thunder Hospital, disease
Richmond Dispatch
12/20/1862; 109
POWs arrive in Richmond, 12/19
Richmond Dispatch
12/20/1862; Capt.
Cyrus Bossieux of prison guard still in command at Castle Thunder
Richmond Dispatch
12/20/1862; 3
deserters arrive at Castle Thunder
Richmond Dispatch
12/20/1862;
Patrick Golding of Richmond into Castle Thunder for disloyalty
Richmond Dispatch
12/20/1862;
enrolling officer’s final day at Old Market Hall
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Richmond Dispatch
12/11/1862; 2 of
Tim Webster’s accomplices, Lewis & Scully, sent North
Richmond Dispatch
12/11/1862;
minute description of New Marshall Theatre, 7th & Broad
Richmond Dispatch
12/11/1862;
Mayor’s Court: as usual, many slave items; Mike, negro employed at
Chimborazo, gets 25 lashes (drunk, stealing)
Richmond Dispatch
12/11/1862; A. H.
Schultz, daily round trips to Drewry’s Bluff leaves at noon and returns at 3
Richmond Dispatch
12/11/1862; C. D.
Rice, Howard’s Grove, adv for 3 cooks and 3 laundresses, all immune to small
pox
Richmond Dispatch
12/11/1862; E. W.
Allen adv headboards for soldier graves
Richmond Dispatch
12/12/1862; flag
of truce exchange expected soon, to include 3 women spies (named) now at
Castle Thunder.
Richmond Dispatch
12/12/1862; 5
deserters arrive at Castle Thunder, plus 2 of Co. D, 16VA
Richmond Dispatch
12/12/1862;
Luther Libby adv for runaway slave
Richmond Dispatch
12/12/1862; C. D.
Rice, Surgeon in charge at Howard’s Grove, orders outpatients to register at
Chimborazo or be AWOL
Richmond Dispatch
12/13/1862; Dr.
Carrington, CSA, in charge smallpox hospital, corner 25th & Cary, addresses
city council – valuable details on his Hospital & Howard’s Grove
Richmond Dispatch
12/13/1862; Jno.
Mulligan, two-time deserter from D5VaCavy., to be shot at Camp Lee, 12/16
Richmond Dispatch
12/13/1862; very
long list of Castle Thunder accessions, giving name, unit, offense. Includes
man sent from GH#20 for bad conduct. 3 females there sent North yesterday
Richmond Dispatch
12/15/1862; long
list of new Castle Thunder inmates, units and charges
Richmond Dispatch
12/15/1862; Libby
POW released – ex-officer on the staff of Banks.
Richmond Dispatch
12/16/1862; 837
WIA arrive at GH#9 night of 12/14
Richmond Dispatch
12/16/1862; G. W.
Alexander & 50 men to Fredericksburg to help the wounded
Richmond Dispatch
12/16/1862; John
Mulligan, 5VaCav., gets 20 day respite from execution
Richmond Dispatch
12/16/1862; new
inmates at Castle Thunder
Richmond Dispatch
12/16/1862; T. P.
Turner on leave, so Libby commanded by Lt. Virginius Bossieux; City
Battalion dress parade, Capital Square
Richmond Dispatch
12/16/1862; C. S.
Armory employees donate $410 to 2nd Corps destitute. Major Downer, the
Supt., donated $50
Richmond Dispatch
12/16/1862; list
of machinery to be sold inside T. & S. Hardgrove’s Factory
Richmond Dispatch
12/16/1862;
steamer Schultz leaves at noon for Drewry’s, return trip at 2:30 - $1 round
trip
Richmond Dispatch
12/16/1862; W. B.
Forder, steward at GH#7, adv for 8 nurses, preferably slaves. Also daily
milk delivery
Richmond Dispatch
12/16/1862; J.
Vannerson adv for “a good ambrotype artist”
Richmond Dispatch
12/16/1862; Capt.
W. N. Smith, C. S. Lab., 7th & Arch, adv for 100 girls to “work on
cartridges.”
Added July 1, 2008
Richmond Dispatch
12/5/1862; enormous list
of court martial results
Richmond Dispatch
12/5/1862; long
list of Castle Thunder arrivals
Richmond Dispatch
12/5/1862;
“substantial railing” in place north side of canal, east of 8th
St., both sides of bridge.
Richmond Dispatch
12/5/1862; only 2
new POWs at Libby, 12/4
Richmond Dispatch
12/5/1862;
steamer Schultz is now making daily trips to Drewry’s Bluff
Richmond Dispatch
12/5/1862; 4 or 5
male nurses wanted at GH#3
Richmond Dispatch
12/5/1862; slave
to cook wanted at GH#19
Richmond Dispatch
12/8/1862; ten
houses at Rocketts (Water & Main streets) burn in huge fire. Known as
Tyler’s Row, as Hiram Tyler owned them all
Richmond Dispatch
12/8/1862; 3 men
escape from state penitentiary
Richmond Dispatch
12/8/1862; huge
list of Libby & Castle Thunder POW increases
Richmond Dispatch
12/8/1862; 51
POWs to Libby on 12/6, 21 more on 12/7
Richmond Dispatch
12/8/1862; public
temperance meeting held 12/4 at Springfield Temperance Hall
Richmond Dispatch
12/9/1862; City
Council: discusses CSA smallpox hospital, now near corner 25th & Cary; 798
kegs of powder in city magazine; sells settees from Mechanics’ Hall to
Govt., for use of patients at Chimborazo Hospital
Richmond Dispatch
12/9/1862; body
of negro man fished out of the canal basin
Richmond Dispatch
12/9/1862;
escaped Libby prisoner arrested for something else & returned to Libby; Kile
Norton, “a South Carolina darkey” employed at Castle Thunder
Richmond Dispatch
12/10/1862; new
Castle Thunder accessions include citizen from near Winchester; Henry Hall,
1GA; & also one suspicious civilian
Richmond Dispatch
12/10/1862;
Jackson Triplett, 54NC, died 12/8 at Castle Thunder – typhoid pneumonia;
unnamed sentinel at Camp Lee supposedly froze to death, 12/7
Richmond Dispatch
12/10/1862; 50
soldiers sent to ANV 12/9 from Castle Thunder
Richmond Dispatch
12/10/1862; E. H. Smith at Chimborazo #3 offers
large Dinwiddie farm for rent/lease
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