Churches and Religion
Information about Churches and Religion in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

Written Accounts

1890-04-03, Richmond Dispatch; excellent description, including valuable testimony of Isaac Carrington, of the evacuation fire of Richmond. Notes that Libby had been emptied the day before
1890-10-05, Richmond Dispatch; obituary notice for John Latouche, former adjutant of Libby Prison. Great biographical details
1891-01-01, National Tribune; excellent description of Crew and Pemberton Prisons and account of a "sugar raid"
1892-02-18, Richmond Dispatch; editorial appeal to restore Shockoe Cemetery “to its former beauty”
1892-06-23, Richmond Times; fatal accident at the Tredegar Iron Works
1892-09-08, Richmond Times; obituary, with lengthy biography, of Joseph R. Anderson
1892-09-10, Richmond Times; account of the funeral of Joseph R. Anderson at St. Paul’s church and at Hollywood – very descriptive of the pallbearers and attendees. Workers of Tredegar arrive en masse to view the body. St. Paul’s church offers resolutions
1894-06-30, Richmond Dispatch; great description of Richmond for the Confederate reunion, focusing on how much has changed since the war
1895, New England Magazine; good description of life in Prison No. 1 (Ligon's Prison) during 1861. Comments on Henry Wirz as an employee there.
1896-01-04, Richmond Planet; interesting description of the controversy surrounding the burial of “an old black mammy” in a white family’s plot in Shockoe Cemetery

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