Conscription
Information about Conscription in Richmond during the Civil War.

Written Accounts

1863-02-26, Richmond Dispatch; 57 men into Castle Thunder yesterday. J. H. Grant, B27NC, died 2/25 at prison hospital. Lt. George W. M. Brown charged with shooting at man on Main
1863-04-02, Richmond Dispatch; officers are nabbing anyone in the streets who look like soldiers and sending them to Castle Thunder.
1863-04-03, Richmond Dispatch; E. W. Wood, orderly sergeant at Camp Lee, in trouble for drunkenness
1863-04-07, Richmond Sentinel; deserter from the 54VA shot and killed while trying to escape from Castle Thunder
1863-04-28, Richmond Dispatch; 300 men still in Castle Thunder, 100 having been returned to army 4/27
1863-04-29, Richmond Sentinel; two men of the City Battalion have their heads shaved and drummed out of camp for accepting a bribe from a prisoner which allowed him to escape - sent to Camp Lee as conscripts
1863-05-01, Richmond Dispatch; someone at Rees’s Gallery, 145 Main st., looking for substitute
1863-05-06, Richmond Dispatch; AWOL notice for Holland Watson, conscript who deserted from C. S. Armory
1863-05-09, Richmond Dispatch; writ of habeas corpus case for L. P. Fountain, in army, under age, presently at Chimborazo. Mother trying to get him discharged.
1863-05-14, Richmond Dispatch; Wm. H. Woody, Richmond Arsenal adv raising company of mounted riflemen for service in the valley

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