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

Written Accounts

1910-11-11, Richmond Times-Dispatch; Mothers of children in the Bellevue School meet to discuss acquiring the Van Lew property for a new school
1911-07-21, Richmond Times-Dispatch; playground on the Van Lew property to be dismantled; laborers at Chimborazo Park getting paid for hours they didn’t work
1911-11-05, Richmond Times-Dispatch; Site of Libby Prison will be marked with a bronze tablet, and notes on the other tablets to mark Confederate sites (Robertson Hospital, Chimborazo, Maury House, JEB Stuart’s death-place, Tredegar). Ceremony to be short
1916-11-22, Richmond Times-Dispatch; Seabrook’s Warehouse (formerly GH#9) site to become a new playground. Notes that “a few years ago” it was deemed unsafe and torn down. Brief history of the building. Playground intended to fill a recreational hole betw
1917-10-07, Richmond Times-Dispatch; boy who fatally beat a co-worker at Tredegar with a wrench is tried at the Juvenile Court rather than the Police Court – to the consternation of the latter’s Judge
1923-11-11, Richmond Times-Dispatch; police looking for a body floating in the canal near the Tredegar Iron Works
1929, The Black Swan; "The Libby Lion;" article written by the son of R. R. "Dick" Turner, describing his boyhood and experiences with his father. Notes that his Dick Turner was "on the staff of General Winder, with the rank of Captain
1941-03-13, Richmond Times Dispatch; two twin boys drown in the canal near Tredegar – one body found against the intake grate off the canal
1982, Civil War Times Illustrated (Oct. 1982), pp. 36-41; Burton, David L. "Friday the 13th: Richmond's Great Home Front Disaster."

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