Gender
Information about Gender in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

Written Accounts

1872-11-29, Richmond Daily State Journal; false report in a New York paper that Miss Van Lew is likely to be removed as postmaster – article praises her administration of the position
1877-05-02, National Republican (Washington, DC); sarcastic description of Elizabeth Van Lew as the “woman of the future”
1879-09-28, St. Paul (Minn.) Daily Globe; rather romantic account of the “Angel of Castle Thunder,” who nursed a dying patient at Byrd Island Hospital and received the invitation of his family to be adopted
1882-05-21, Salt Lake Herald (Salt Lake City, Utah); interesting and amusing story of Elizabeth Van Lew and a ribald engineer living in her home who introduces Van Lew’s niece to books on free love. Niece is charged with lunacy and expunged from will
1883, Southern Historical Society Papers 11 (1883), pp. 83-92; Burrows, J. L. "Recollections of Libby Prison."
1889-07-11, National Tribune; Details of the dog-killing incident at Belle Isle - notes regarding a female soldier found there
1891-12-25, Shenandoah Herald (Woodstock, Va.); Elizabeth Van Lew sends in protest notice along with her taxes, claiming she believes it a crime to tax women without representation
1894-02-17, Richmond Dispatch; Loreta Janeta Velazquez, now married and working for the National Immigration and Colonization Association, has returned to Richmond, staying at the Exchange Hotel to lobby VA legislature for land. She had spent time in Cast
1895-08-29, National Tribune; brief description of the author's prison experiences at Belle Isle, Pemberton, and Scott's prisons
1895-11-13, Richmond Times; Miss Van Lew’s annual letter to the newspaper, protesting taxation without representation

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