Flags
Information about flags in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

Written Accounts 

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.
1865-04-21, Boston Liberator; Charles Coffin correspondence from Richmond, 4/5. Mentions black Confederate soldiers, Thomas Morris Chester, ruins of Richmond, Charles Sumner in Richmond, Libby Prison, and Abraham Lincoln
1865-05-27, Richmond Whig; says the first Union flag to fly in Richmond was flown over Libby by an escaped prisoner
1865-05-29, Richmond Whig; description of the State flag taken from the Capitol the day of the occupation
1865-06-06, Richmond Whig; a new flagpole has been erected at the Female Institute
1865-09-02, Richmond Commercial Bulletin; 98th New York musters out and departs Richmond
1867-02-13, Richmond Dispatch; Commander of Department of Henrico writes letter to Mayor Mayo complaining of a Confederate flag being displayed in Richmond, and Mayor’s response
1871-05-18, Richmond Dispatch; lengthy description of Memorial Day at Hollywood – notes the unburied dead from Fort Harrison have been placed east of the pyramid on the side of a hill
1883-09-13, National Tribune; description of prison life at Castle Thunder and "Royster House" (GH#20)
1884-01-24, National Tribune; account of the capture of the 4th New Jersey at Gaines' Mill, and subsequent imprisonment in Libby Prison and Belle Isle is the summer of 1862

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