Fires
Information about fires and the Richmond Fire Department in Richmond, VA during the Civil War

Written Accounts

1865-04-13, New York Herald; lengthy dispatches from Richmond detailing conditions there, Dahlgren’s body being recovered and sent north, Tredegar, prisons, and Lincoln’s plan for peace
1865-04-14, New York Herald; details on the plan for the Virginia legislature to meet – other accounts of destroyed French tobacco
1865-04-15, Richmond Whig; incredible list of the property destroyed in the evacuation
1865-04-15, Washington Evening Star; fire at Brady’s Washington gallery
1865-04-17, Boston Post; dispatch describing the response to Lee’s surrender in Richmond, losses due to the evacuation fire, crimes in the city and information about life in Richmond generally
1865-04-17, Official Records; Gen. Godfrey Weitzel’s report on the capture of Richmond – notes the order of troops entering city, putting out the fires (he says done about 2 PM), and the rest of the troops being posted to the inner line fortifications.
1865-04-18, Richmond Whig; Asa Snyder demands his stolen stoves goods be returned, looted from the ruins of his foundry “the morning after the fire”
1865-04-18, Richmond Whig; business owners’ “chief occupations” is the removal of their safes from the ruins
1865-04-18, Richmond Whig; Dr. J. H. Hartman, dentist on Main between 14th and 15th, lost everything in the evacuation fire, including his dental instruments, later stolen. Reward offered for their return
1865-04-18, Richmond Whig; military has reopened Cary street by putting “contrabands” to work

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