Residences and Homes
Information about Residences and Homes in Richmond, VA during the Civil War

An interesting book about Old Richmond Neighborhoods by Mary Wingfield Scott

Written Accounts

1866-02-23, Richmond Examiner; notes that a change to the “house numbering scheme” is up before the City Council.
1866-02-26, Richmond Examiner; more on the “Ferrets” and Horace L. Kent (of Kent, Paine & Co.) – reprints a letter from him showing his disgust with the Confederacy. Examiner deals with him sarcastically and harshly
1866-02, The Cosmopolite, “Reminiscences of A Southern Hospital. By Its Matron.” Part 2
1866-03-09, Richmond Dispatch; many buildings now being built downtown, such that “the time is not far off when a visitor will have to inquire, ‘Where was the Burnt District?’”
1866-03-13, Richmond Examiner; new house numbering system to commence (leading to the addresses known today)
1866-03-13, Richmond Examiner; William Cabell, VMI New Market Cadet, disinterred and brought to Richmond. Funeral to occur from his father’s house, Franklin between 7th and 8th
1866-03-14, Richmond Examiner; description of the funeral and reburial in Hollywood, of William H. Cabell, VMI New Market cadet
1866-06-26, Richmond Dispatch; Tom White, negro living at Chimborazo, caught after stealing a traveler’s trunk
1866-10, Debow's Review; "Camp Lee and the Freedman's Bureau;" mostly a racist diatribe, gives a few details into the camp's operation. By George Fitzhugh
1867-06-07, Charleston (S. C.) Daily News; Franklin Stearns sells four acres of “the old Powhatan place” to a company of brick-makers

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