From the Richmond Dispatch, 3/20/1863, p. 1, c. 6

Turned into a Barrack. – The building at the corner of 6th and Cary streets, formerly known as Castle Lightning, is to be converted into a barrack for the accommodation of several of the companies engaged in doing guard duty within this city. All the prisoners who were in confinement there have been removed.

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