Treason
Information about treason in Richmond, VA during the Civil War

Written Accounts

1864-03-09, Richmond Examiner; detailed description of the arrest and imprisonment in Castle Thunder of Detective Philip Cashmeyer – accused of passing treasonous and military information to an exchanged Union officer
1864-03-09, Richmond Whig; detective Cashmeyer arrested for treason on a flag of truce boat while escorting Yankee prisoner and put in Castle Thunder
1864-03-10, Richmond Whig; more details on Detective Cashmeyer's case - he was not behaving treasonously, just stupidly.
1864-03-29 to 1864-03-31, Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VI, pp. 1086-87; Unionists captured by Gen. Imboden in the Shenendoah Valley are sent to Castle Thunder
1864-06-04, Richmond Examiner; new arrivals at Castle Thunder, including one supposedly insane man
1864-07-23, Richmond Dispatch; Mayor's Court cases reported July 23, 1864; in one case His Honor advised husbands to control the tongues of their wives
1864-07-25, Richmond Dispatch; Mayor's Court cases reported on July 25, 1864
1864-08-11, Richmond Dispatch; Confederate States District Court case of a woman charged with treasonable correspondence postponed
1864-09-02, Richmond Dispatch; Yankees and a Confederate traitor sent off by Flag of Truce
1865-01-26, Richmond Whig; Samuel Ruth, Superintendent of the Richmond and Fredericksburg RR has been arrested for conveying “important information to the enemy” and put in Castle Thunder

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