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

Written Accounts

1865-08-25, Richmond Whig; appeal for a street railway and description of the various attempts at this in the past – streetcar iron being recycled for gunboats “now stuck in the abysmal mud of the James” mentioned
1865-09-16, National Archives; F. H. Pierpoint (Gov. of VA) urges the pardon of J. R. Anderson
1865-09-25, Brooklyn (NY) Daily Eagle; Union spy Mary Jane Richards, using pseudonym 'Richmonia R. St. Peirre,' describes Richmond during the war.
1865-09-30, Sunbury (PA) American; brief notice of the pardon of J. R. Anderson of the Tredegar Iron Works.
1865-10-01, Columbia (SC) Daily Phoenix; paragraph on the pardon of J. R. Anderson of Tredegar – notes on the importance of the iron works
1865-10-07, Anglo-African; Union spy Mary Jane Richards, using pseudonym 'Richmonia Richards,' describes wartime Richmond to an audience in New York.
1865-10-17, Amnesty File; G. W. Alexander applies for pardon to Pres. Johnson. No mention of Castle Thunder service, but important personal details
1865-10-20, Burlington (Vt.) Free Press; Charles Palmer “the well-known Unionist” defeated in State Senate race. Franklin Stearns is the only Unionist elected.
1866-01-12, Richmond Whig; editorial: “The Test of the Negro’s Fitness for Freedom.” Labor, political and racial issues abound. “[Abolition] was not the original design of the North in entering upon the war; it certainly was not the design of the South.”
1866-01, The Cosmopolite; “Reminiscences of A Southern Hospital. By Its Matron.” Part 1

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