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

Written Accounts

1863-04-24, Richmond Dispatch; small crowd at recent Sycamore Church gathering – Male Orphan Society
1863-04, Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. V, pp. 871-924; Evidence taken before the committee of the House of Representatives of the Confederate States appointed to inquire into the treatment of prisoners at Castle Thunder (large, pdf attached)
1863-05-18, Richmond Sentinel; ladies are stealing flowers from Hollywood Cemetery
1863-05-27, Richmond Dispatch; runaway notice – boy hired out to Mr. Pleasants near Chimborazo
1863-06-25, Library of Congress; letter from Phoebe Pember to her sister describing social life in Richmond, etc.
1863-08-12, Richmond Sentinel; price of slaves is more now than it has been in the past
1863-09-13, Library of Congress; letter from Phoebe Pember to her sister describing social life in Richmond, etc. Mentions being offered a furlough but refusing it
1863-11-24, Richmond Sentinel; bake-house, slaughter-house and general store-house are built at the Confederate Laboratory to pay their employees with the output of said buildings
1864-01-12, Richmond Whig; men and boys are skating on the canal basin; notes that for this to occur, the freeze has been very hard
1864-01-16, Richmond Whig; description of pardons handed out by Governor Smith, including several participants in the bread riot

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