Food & Supply
Information about Food & Supply in Richmond, VA during the Civil War

Written Accounts

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
1900-08-16, National Tribune; Part Two of Silas Crocker’s serialized account of life in captivity in Richmond - relates the story of his stay on Belle Isle with good details on the prison’s geography. Very fair account, though bitter
1900-10-26, Richmond Dispatch; highly detailed advertisement for the sale of Elizabeth Van Lew’s personal effects in Richmond
1900-10-31, Richmond Dispatch; estate sale of Elizabeth Van Lew – many curiosity-seekers buy up sundry items, detailed list
1900-11-11, Richmond Dispatch; British cavalry horses will now be shod with shoes made at Tredegar Iron Works
1901-09-19, National Tribune; brief article describing the author's reception at Libby, and being bayonetted by a guard while there
1902-01-23, Richmond Dispatch; advertisement from the Tredegar Iron Works, describing what is being made currently at the works
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
1902-11-27, National Tribune; interesting account of mail distribution in Libby
1903-01-29, National Tribune; takes up account of Belle Isle where Beecham left off (NT 10/23/1902); describes the moving of prisoners to Andersonville and the trick that the Confederates played to get the prisoners to get off the island.

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