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Richmond Dispatch |
12/1/1862; 87 men
of 3PaCav, captured by Hampton, arr. 11/30 at Libby |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/1/1862;
merchant garroted and robbed in Shockoe Slip – two assailants later captured |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/1/1862; Custom
House robbers, slaves, acquitted |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/1/1862; New
arrivals at Castle Thunder, including one federal soldier, charged with rape |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/1/1862; more
than 300 sent to City Point 11/30, leaving around 450 in town |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/2/1862; list
of officer POWs received lately. 104 POWs arrived 11/30 & 71 more on Dec.
1st |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/2/1862; “Cage
Cases:” Emanuel Olliberg jailed “for exposing his person in the street;”
slave arrested for killing another slave by stabbing |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/2/1862;
Frederick Lindsey, 1TX & Mathew Pitman, 1GA, both arrested for drunken
fracas at Rockett’s. Pitman to Castle Thunder, Lindsey left behind, “having
had his skull broken by a skillet in the hands of a female whose house he
had entered.” |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/2/1862; Capt.
Jackson Warner’s (prison commissary) horse stolen on 12th street |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/2/1862;
important sales notice for Bellevue Hospital |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/2/1862;
Tredegar adv for a file cutter |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/2/1862; 2
backers needed at Alex McKay’s Bakery, Main & 28th, “(Hardgrove’s
Fac’y)” |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/3/1862; B. R.
Minter, 18VaBn, killed at Castle Booker by sentinel (Wm. Phillips of
President’s Guard) |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/3/1862; long
paragraph on substitute/AWOL/robbery/Castle Booker scam |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/3/1862; 23 new
NC arrivals at Castle Thunder, including one from Libby Prison |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/3/1862;
Mayor’s Court items: as usual, many slave items; James A. Minor, NC soldier
(see above), to Castle Booker for forgery; Emmanuel Olliberg (see yesterday)
fined one dollar and released |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/3/1862; Thos.
H. Gunn, Supt. at Steam Hospital Laundry, Barrett’s Factory |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/3/1862; public
temperance meeting scheduled for Springfield Hall, Church Hill |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/4/1862; list
of new Castle Thunder inmates. Includes Mike O’Bryan, AWOL fireman from CSS
Jamestown and Jno. Govan, AWOL from CSS Richmond |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/4/1862;
female/male arrested at American Hotel. False alarm. |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/4/1862;
prisoner named Welles died at Libby 12/3 – first in over a month |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/4/1862; 3
Castle Thunder prisoners whipped for assaulting fellow prisoners |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/4/1862;
donations to Henningsen Hospital include $25 from Fairfield Race Course &
$257 from Mr. Wagoner at Richmond Trotting Park |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/28/1862; five
Yankees brought to Libby from Mathews Co., captured by “Capt. Fitzhugh” |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/28/1862; three
drunk soldiers sent to Castle Thunder, including Francis Fields; also John
P. Usher, H9La, drunk & disorderly patient at GH#13, & 13 men from
Petersburg provost marshal. New punishment at Castle Thunder for misconduct
“has had a most salutary effect on the manners of the inmates.” |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/28/1862; City
Bn. has drill on Capitol Square. Five companies of 40 men each |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/28/1862; Clerk
at GH#19 adv to purchase pair of canary birds |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/28/1862; long
adv from Tredegar – want 500 negroes to work in Botetourt Co. blast furnace |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/28/1862;
Exchange Hotel furniture sale still going on. |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/28/1862; Dr.
Bolton adv for missing Bellevue Hospital patient register |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/28/1862;
“DeLeon” at Mechanics Hall adv for box stolen from RR depot |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/29/1862; 245
Federal soldiers to be paroled at City Point today – officers named,
including Col. Thos. J. Jordan, 9th PA, who for some time was in Castle
Thunder |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/29/1862; new
arrivals at Castle Thunder |
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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 |
11/29/1862;
slaves accused of stealing treasury notes at Custom House to go on trial
today. Includes slave of Jefferson Davis |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/29/1862; 49
POWs arrive at Libby on 11/28 |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/29/1862; J. R.
Anderson adv to purchase oak lumber for gun carriages |
