Martial Law
Information about Martial Law in Richmond VA during the Civil War and the Provost Marshal General John Henry Winder

Written Accounts

1862-11-11, Richmond Dispatch; List of 12 new admittances to Castle Thunder; 20 new POWs at Libby, many of them citizen prisoners.
1862-11-11, Richmond Dispatch; Patrick Reardon arrested near Old Church smuggling tobacco. Sent to Castle Thunder.
1862-11-12, Richmond Dispatch; 31 POWs arrive at Libby, 21 of them USN. Also deserter from Wheat’s Bn. put into Castle Thunder.
1862-11-13, Richmond Dispatch; Government raids houses near Cold Harbor
1862-11-13, Richmond Dispatch; T. W. Hoeniger offering booze for sale, Spotswood Hotel, legally
1862-11-14, Richmond Dispatch; negroes arrested for theft & counterfeiting. Were stealing unsigned notes from Custom House
1862-11-15, Richmond Dispatch; 6 deserters added to Castle Thunder from Petersburg and two others, named – total now 390 on 11/14
1862-11-15, Richmond Dispatch; G. W. Alexander adv for 3 hardened deserters, ex-Castle Thunder inmates
1862-11-17, Richmond Dispatch; details on murder of Lt. J. O. Withmell, CSA, from England & St. Louis, killed in “alley on Cary Street, between 14th and 15th streets.” Col. B. D. Harmon present at the shooting. “The public clock” is at corner 14th and Mai
1862-11-18, National Archives, RG 109, Ch. 9, Vol. 199.5, p. 32; "stupid sentinel" at Libby Prison is caught allowing trading with the prisoners to go on

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