After 1865 Written Accounts
Written accounts after 1865 from various sources about Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

1902-08-25, St. Albans (VT) Daily Messenger; Libby Prison flag has been mutilated by a souvenir hunter at Rutland Memorial Hall. Description of other artifcats on display there
1902-08-27, Hawaiian Star (Honolulu); column from Hawaiian newspaper describing the memorial marker and wartime career of Elizabeth Van Lew
1902-09-05, Richmond Dispatch; Tredegar and Armory lot in Shockoe Cemetery is not being used (gives precise area) and city threatens to seize it back.
1902-09-17, Richmond Times; account of a Boston man who had worked with Elizabeth Van Lew as a spy
1902-09-25, Richmond Times; obituary notice for A. S. Bradley, former member of the Richmond Howitzers who was an assistant for photographer David Anderson after the war “for many years”
1902-10-10, Richmond Times; prisoner in Libby Prison is paroled to work for the Richmond Whig, setting type, in 1863
1902-10-23, National Tribune; Capt. Beecham's good, but very bitter, account of life on Belle Isle after Gettysburg. Includes a copy of an article from Jackson Warner, Commissary in Richmond denying that prisoners were starved
1902-10-23, National Tribune; notes from a former Libby Prisoner, who commanded the prison after the occupation of Richmond; mentions Dick Turner being imprisoned there.
1902-10-30, National Tribune; letter describes the fire in Richmond threatening Libby Prison and Castle Thunder, and the author broke open the door to let prisoners out.
1902-11-27, National Tribune; interesting account of mail distribution in Libby

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