Police
Information about the police in the city of Richmond, Virginia during the Civil War

 Written Accounts

1859-01-07, Richmond Dispatch; residents of Jefferson Ward to purchase land at “Hospital Hill” (Chimborazo) to give as a fair grounds. Description notes that “it is within the city limits, and will be under control of the Mayor..."
1860-12-25, Richmond Dispatch; two men assault and beat a woman at the corner of 7th and Cary streets.
1861-05-09, Richmond Dispatch; fire burns down building adjacent to Libby & Son's ship chandlery (later Libby Prison), which is saved by great exertions by firemen
1861-05-20, Richmond Dispatch; two attempts to destroy the Tredegar Iron Works by fire
1861-09-10, Richmond Whig; description of a rock battle between the "Shockoe Hill Cats" and "Butcher Cats," and the police raid that stopped it
1862-03-04, Richmond Enquirer; Union sympathizers sent to Castle Godwin; John Scully sent there also
1862-05-01, Richmond Dispatch; Miss Minerva Meredith (future bread rioter) has endured a combined verbal assault – her character is attested to by local police; Mayor Mayo referred to as “his royal rotundity”
1862-08-25, Richmond Enquirer; Louisiana Zouave, evading police, jumps out of a window of the Columbian hotel, fractures his skull, taken to Baskerville Hospital, and later dies
1862-10-06, Richmond Dispatch; John Connors, La. soldier, sent to Castle Thunder for trespassing at Columbia Hotel, others charged with offenses
1862-11-06, Richmond Dispatch; Mayor’s Court: Jas. Pearson, of Drewry’s Bluff command, jailed for assault; woman tried for stealing $10 worth of silverware from Spotswood; details on E. Hunter Taliaferro case

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