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

 Written Accounts

1863-01-12, Richmond Dispatch; separate small-pox hospital has been opened for negroes at Howard's Grove by the city council
1863-01-13, Richmond Dispatch; City council: progress on smallpox/Howard’s Grove; Argument to enlarge city jail & strengthen it; City council wants Alms House back from CSA. Supt. says he buried 7120 soldiers in Oakwood
1863-02-24, Richmond Dispatch; City Council resolves to contest C. S. Govt unlimited use of city streets for Railroads & connecting lines
1863-02-24, Richmond Dispatch; interesting City Council deliberations regarding Alms House/GH#1
1863-03-10, Richmond Dispatch; interesting update on City Hospital & Howard’s Grove, from City Council
1863-03-27, Richmond Dispatch; George Minor asks city council for relief from losses incurred in construction of new city almshouse ; report (census) on City Hospital & Howard’s Grove Hospital
1863-04-14, Richmond Dispatch; City Council resolves to give CSA all “the old cannon used as street posts” provided they are replaced by stone posts
1863-05-19, Richmond Dispatch; City Council votes to separate management of Alms House from that of Shockoe Cemetery
1863-05-20, Richmond Dispatch; City Council unveils plan for mobilizing able-bodied men in city for emergency defense
1863-07-15, Richmond Dispatch; Richmond City Council appropriates money for St. Charles Hospital (GH#8)

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