Politics
Information about politics in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

Written Accounts

1865-04-14, New York Herald, Lincoln’s plan for the Virginia Legislature to meet is going forward – detailed list of those called.
1865-04-14, New York Herald; details on the plan for the Virginia legislature to meet – other accounts of destroyed French tobacco
1865-04-16, New York Herald; order to reassemble the Virginia Legislature is rescinded. General Lee has not arrived in the city.
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
1865-06-01, Richmond Whig; John Minor Botts is expected to return to Richmond next Friday or Saturday
1865-06-20, Richmond Whig; lengthy description of the suicide of Edmund Ruffin
1865-06-22, National Archives; Asa Snyder, a fellow Richmond industrialist, writes to President Johnson urging the pardon of J. R. Anderson
1865-06, National Archives; Joseph R. Anderson’s amnesty application to President Johnson. Notes that Tredegar is still under Federal control
1865-07-15, National Archives; Joseph R. Anderson appeals to Pittsburgh friends for help with a pardon. Important details regarding Tredegar’s wartime service. Vaguely mentions meeting Lincoln while in Richmond. Mentions Anderson’s property confiscated
1865-07-20, National Archives; Dilworth Porter & Co. of Pittsburgh writes President Johnson to urge J. R. Anderson’s pardon. Anderson is described as a “man of integrity and very great enterprise”

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