City Council
Information about the City Council in Richmond, Virginia during the Civil War

 Written Accounts

1861-04-26, Richmond at War; city council approves railroad connections through the city
1862-02-21, Richmond Dispatch; great stuff on the Tredegar Battalion from R. S. Archer to city council
1862-03-12; Richmond Dispatch; Hollywood Cemetery asks City Council for land to expand; Wm. H. Johnson looking to recoup losses from plastering Alms House
1862-05-13, Richmond Dispatch; Peterfield Trent asks City Council to set aside Clay St Chapel as hospital - request denied; quarter ending 4/30: 114 white interments at Shockoe, 16 of them POW
1862-05-27, Richmond Enquirer; City Council meets to allow the Va. Central Railroad to erect a temporary track up Broad street to connect it with the Fredericksburg depot
1862-07-12, Richmond Enquirer; description of the debate in City Council over Hollywood Cemetery's expansion and Oakwood's problem with lack of laborers
1862-07-16, Richmond Dispatch; soldiers being buried at Clark’s Spring, adjacent to Hollywood. City Council votes to open up 60 acres at Oakwood instead.
1862-11-26, Richmond Dispatch; City council minutes: quarter ending 10/31/1862 at Shockoe – 291 white males, total interned – 384, plus 189 negroes;
1862-12-09, Richmond Dispatch; 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
1862-12-13, Richmond Dispatch; Dr. Carrington, CSA, in charge smallpox hospital, corner 25th & Cary, addresses city council – valuable details on his Hospital & Howard’s Grove

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