Women
Information about women in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

Written Accounts

1865-09-02, Richmond Commercial Bulletin; Provost Judge’s court is in the “Old Stone House” – Mary Lazarena, trespasser, assaults man with stones
1865-09-08, Richmond Whig; Rebecca Chandler, “the great trouble of the police court in Confederate days” arrested and sent to Castle Thunder for “habitual drunkenness, being disorderly and abusing everybody and everything she came across and in contact wi
1865-09-25, Brooklyn (NY) Daily Eagle; Union spy Mary Jane Richards, using pseudonym 'Richmonia R. St. Peirre,' describes Richmond during the war.
1865-09-26, Richmond Whig; lengthy and descriptive account of a woman who shot her cheating boyfriend opposite Metropolitan Hall. She taken to a private apartment in Castle Thunder after spending a night in “the cage.”
1865-10-07, Anglo-African; Union spy Mary Jane Richards, using pseudonym 'Richmonia Richards,' describes wartime Richmond to an audience in New York.
1865-11, The National Freedman; letter regarding schools and charity at City Point and Chimborazo. Author “organized a night school at the Chimborazo camp” for about 200 pupils
1865-12-12, Richmond Dispatch; long description of alleged negro thieves at Chimborazo – still described as “Chimborazo Hospital”
1865-12-16, Richmond Examiner; interesting, and wordy, description of the demoralizing effect of the war. The war “is now over, and it only remains to us to cleanse the traces of war from our homes and hearts”
1865-12-22, Richmond Examiner; two ladies garroted and robbed inside their store by three US soldiers
1865-12-30, The National Freedman; ldescription of poor conditions and education among the Freedmen at Chimborazo, and appeal for charity

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