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

Written Accounts 

1899-08-10, National Tribune; “A Union Man in Richmond;” part four of serial account. Describes John Minor Bott’s stay in “a negro jail in Lombard Alley” [Castle Godwin], the economic situation in Richmond, the Battle of First Manassas
1899-09-21, National Tribune; “A Union Man in Richmond” part seven of serialized account. Describes the tough economic conditions in Richmond in 1863 (with a nice description of the scene at the Old Market), the small-pox epidemic in Richmond
1899-09-28, National Tribune; “A Union Man in Richmond” part eight of serialized account. Describes the capture and execution of Timothy Webster, the Libby Prison escape (mentions prisoners being aided by Van Lew)
1900-07-12, National Tribune; good account of the fall of Richmond in 1865, by a boy who lived on Church Hill; notes that advancing Union troops were fired upon from convalescent patients from Chimborazo
1900-11-23, Washington Times; sale of Van Lew items in Boston – “no sentimental interest,” and the sale was poorly attended and brought little money. Details on some of the items sold.
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
1902-10-23, 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
1902-12-02, Honolulu (Hawaii) Republican; lengthy and detailed description of the life of Elizabeth Van Lew
1906-12-15, Ripley, Edward H. NY MOLLUS, Vol. III, 1907, pp. 472-502; excellent description of the fall and capture of Richmond; notes that he has the key and records for Libby Prison

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