Legislature
Information about the legislature in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

Written Accounts

1865-05-19, Richmond Whig; Official directory of Union officials in Richmond
1865-06-08, White Cloud (Kan.) Chief; R. M. T. Hunter has been arrested and imprisoned on “a gunboat in the James.”
1865-10-20, Burlington (Vt.) Free Press; Charles Palmer “the well-known Unionist” defeated in State Senate race. Franklin Stearns is the only Unionist elected.
1866-01-09, Richmond Whig; important article about the re-organization of the Public Guard, to guard the Penitentiary, Capitol Square, “and the Armory, when we have one.”
1866-01-11, Richmond Examiner; General Lee is in town to confer with the Educational Committee – he arrived on the Central train, thence to the Spotswood, then to the house of “a friend”
1866-02-07, Richmond Examiner; Franklin Stearns draws pay from legislature and donated the same to help Henrico widows and orphans. Paper recounts another member ridiculing him for bad whiskey
1866-02-27, Richmond Examiner; proposal is before the legislature to extend Richmond’s city limits on the south side of the James, using the “breastworks” of the middle line of entrenchments as the boundary
1869-10-17, Columbia (S. C.) Daily Phoenix; Franklin Stearns, among a few others, is considered a top candidate for a US Senate seat.
1870-04-19, Macon (Georgia) Weekly Telegraph; incredibly detailed article about Lincoln’s visit to Richmond with particular emphasis on his meetings with Campbell and the political fallout of his reconstruction attempt. Includes purported transcriptions
1880-07, The Atlantic Monthly; Gen. George Shepley's recollection of Lincoln's visit to Richmond

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