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Richmond Dispatch |
10/30/1860; the iron bridge "over the Dock" at
the foot of 17th street is nearly completed |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/12/1860; drunken butcher falls into the canal and drowns |
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Richmond Enquirer |
7/11/1861; Cannon made at Bellona Arsenal, and
lying on the basin bank, have been spiked by some "Yankee spy" |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
10/8/1861;
Geo. Sheridan,
Ala. soldier, goes crazy, runs through streets in underwear, leaps to death
in canal at "Armory Bridge" |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
10/25/1861; fire brigade parades and tests
their new engine on the south side of the canal basin |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
4/19/1862; boy drowns in canal near Libby
Prison; prisoner tried to save him, but was denied. |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
4/19/1862; man drowns in the canal at the foot
of twentieth street - taken to Dr. Higginbotham at the "Confederate prison
in the vicinity", too late to save him |
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Richmond Dispatch |
5/21/1862; editorial protest against skinny dippers in stream at Hollywood &
canal |
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Richmond Dispatch |
6/4/1862; long
article on RR accident in city, on 8th st - two injuries, canal bridge
damaged, etc. On tracks connecting R&P w/ RF&P. Also boy run over on Broad,
on connecting tracts between RF&P & Va. Cent. Byrd Island Hospital and
Spotswood Hotel mentioned. |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
7/5/1862; man drowns in the canal near Tredegar
Iron Works |
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Richmond Dispatch |
7/16/1862;
navigation of the canal is open as far as Lexington and Buchanan, having
been repaired after recent rains |
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Richmond Dispatch |
7/22/1862; body
found floating near “the gauge dock of the basin.” Supposed to be a soldier
who fell in the canal near the Armory bridge a few days ago. |
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New
York Herald |
7/28/1862; wonderful general description of the
city of Richmond - mentions, Hollywood, Tredegar, the Almshouse, appearance
of the prisons, Odd Fellows Hall, and the James River and Kanawha Canal |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
8/4/1862; canal basin was drained to prevent
stagnation of water - many animal corpses found at the bottom |
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Richmond Dispatch |
8/14/1862; James
River & Kanawha Canal is in good order, but there is a scarcity of labor and
boats. |
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Richmond Dispatch |
9/8/1862; S. W.
Glover, K41VA, killed in canal boat accident – smashed head on bridge |
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Richmond Dispatch |
9/29/1862; dead
infant found in millrace near Haxall’s Mill |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
9/29/1862; dead infant found in the canal
between Haxall's Mill and the Danville Depot |
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Richmond Dispatch |
10/1/1862;
Interesting paragraph on shortage of canal boats. Many sunk as obstructions.
Not enough in service. |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/5/1862; leak
in canal above Tredegar quickly repaired. |
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Richmond
Examiner |
11/10/1862; Canal boat sinks near Tredegar Iron
Works |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/22/1862;
attempted robbery on the 17th street bridge over the canal |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/24/1862; 2
drowning victims fished from canal at foot of 8th street. One a
Sussex county civilian, the other G. W. Gentry, soldier from 3SC, d. 11/20 |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/29/1862; space
on either side of the canal bridge on 8th street to be fenced in, in order
to prevent accidents |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/5/1862;
“substantial railing” in place north side of canal, east of 8th
St., both sides of bridge. |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/9/1862; body
of negro man fished out of the canal basin |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
12/23/1862;
unnamed drowning victim disinterred, $91,000 recovered from clothes |
|
Richmond
Whig |
1/9/1863; “Show
Your Papers!” - interesting and long paragraph about the prevalence of armed
conscript gangs in Richmond. Anecdote given about men stopped on the canal
bridge at 8th street |
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Richmond
Whig |
1/28/1863; bridge
over the canal at 8th street collapses while Union POWs are crossing it. 25
prisoners and 8 guards are reported drowned. Basin is being drained to find
more bodies. Remarks that the prisoners should have been crossed at 7th
street, where the bridge is more “substantial” |
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Richmond
Whig |
1/29/1863; more
on the canal bridge collapse: Libby Prison reports that only two prisoners
are missing, and those bodies have been found. Another body found in the
basin when it was drained, but it was a Confederate who had been there some
time. Paper goes on to describe the history of the bridge and notes that it
was of northern manufacture. |
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Richmond
Whig |
3/6/1863; details
on the new steam fire engine, tested on the north bank of the basin |
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Richmond
Whig |
3/9/1863; Eighth
Street bridge over the canal has not yet been repaired |
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Richmond
Examiner |
4/6/1863; Canal Basin bridge at 8th
street, which collapsed under the weight of passing Yankee prisoners, is
annoying by its absence |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
4/29/1863; Eighth Street bridge over the canal
has been rebuilt after its collapse during transfer of prisoners |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
8/14/1863; advocates a fence be built around
the canal basin - notes that several people drowned there in the past year
after stumbling into the basin |
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Richmond
Whig |
1/12/1864; men and boys are skating
on the canal basin; notes that for this to occur, the freeze has been very
hard |
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Richmond
Examiner |
3/3/1864; man drowns in canal opposite Libby
Prison |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
6/7/1864; many patients in hospitals
cannot be furloughed because their homes are in Yankee hands; those along
the canal are requested to take them. |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
6/13/1864; some of Sheridan's
captured men arrive via canal packet. "Ten or fifteen" prisoners from Lee's
front arrive at Libby. |
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Richmond
Examiner |
6/30/1864; the canal basin is nasty - if it is
drained, murdered corpses are likely to be found |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
11/1/1864; dead man found
floating in the Canal Basin, near the Gallego mills - body had been in the
body a week or more |
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Richmond
Whig |
4/12/1865; the canal will be open again
within a few days |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
6/1/1889; gondola
"Chimborazo" is making passenger runs up the canal. This may be
the same canal boat used during the war. |
