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| 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 Enquirer | 9/6/1861; Yankees attempt to escape from prison, shot by sentries on Libby Hill. |
| Richmond Dispatch | 9/6/1861; J. R. Anderson (Tredegar Iron Works) promoted to Brigadier General |
| Richmond Dispatch | 9/6/1861; Yankee surgeon, tending to prisoners, has made his escape |
| Richmond Dispatch | 9/8/1861; mortality rate at St. Charles Hospital (GH#8) |
| Richmond Whig | 9/9/1861; Louisiana Hospital |
| 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 Dispatch | 9/12/1861; Artillery company of VMI alumni is being formed |
| Richmond Enquirer | 9/13/1861; American House Hospital closed |
| Richmond Whig | 9/16/1861; four Yankee prisoners escape from prison depot, two are shot and the others are recaptured |
| Richmond Whig | 9/16/1861; Louisiana soldier, shot by a South Carolinian, dies in St. Charles Hospital |
| Richmond Enquirer | 9/17/1861; "Hospitals in Richmond" list |
| Richmond Whig | 9/17/1861; references to recent POW escapes, says guards are more interested in keeping citizens out than prisoners in |
| Richmond Dispatch | 9/23/1861; Elizabeth Van Lew is renting a residence next door to her house |
| Richmond Enquirer | 9/24/1861; Yankee prisoner shot by a sentinel; buried at Shockoe |
| Richmond Examiner | 9/26/1861; Gilliam's Factory becomes hospital (GH#3) |
| Richmond Examiner | 9/26/1861; Ad for tobacco at Hardgrove Factory |
| Richmond Examiner | 9/26/1861; 50 patients in Main Street Hospital (Ross' Factory) |
| Richmond Dispatch | 9/27/1861; Virginia Central RR is building a stone building at their RR shops |
| Richmond Examiner | 9/27/1861; Fire at C. S. Laboratory |
| Richmond Examiner | 9/27/1861; A southern turncoat is among the prisoners at General Hospital #1 |
| Richmond Whig | 9/27/1861; Fire at the C. S. Laboratory - urges movement of laboratory from a central location for safety reasons |
| Richmond Enquirer | 9/28/1861; excellent and lengthy description of the Tredegar Iron Works - describes the manufacture of iron products and mentions the Tredegar Battalion |
| Richmond Examiner | 9/30/1861; Dr. Bolton reports 51 patients in Bellevue Hospital |
| Richmond Examiner | 9/30/1861; Texas Soldier dies at St. Charles Hospital (GH#8) |
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