Children
Information about children in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

Written Accounts

1866-07-16, Richmond Dispatch; reports of desecration of the grave marker of Jefferson Davis' deceased son are erroneous
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
1866-12-11, Richmond Dispatch; Freedmen’s school and orphan asylym removed from Camp Lee to “the laboratory near Hollywood.”
1867-08-28, Richmond Dispatch; colored boy critically injured by a rock thrown by another near Grant’s factory, 19th and Franklin (former GH#12)
1867-08-28, Richmond Dispatch; little boy jumps on train on Broad street, falls, has legs crushed, and later dies – son of soldier killed at Ft. Gregg at Petersburg
1869-10-25, Richmond Dispatch; adv from resident of Chimborazo, having found a day book
1871-04-25, Richmond Dispatch; long recommendation for Chimborazo to be made into a park. Details as to current ownership, its present use as a Freedmen’s camp, and pre-war use as a “common”
1872-02-28, Richmond Dispatch; child falls into a fire at Chimborazo and is burned to death
1872-03-14, Richmond Dispatch; city dumping coal cinders to make sidewalks near Chimborazo – children scooping up the usable lumps
1872-06-03, Richmond Daily State Journal; man crushed under large piece of timber on Belle Isle – not expected to survive

Page 18 of 21

Go to top