Race Relations
Information about race relations in Richmond, VA, during the Civil War and Reconstruction. 

Written Accounts

1865-04-13, New York Herald; lengthy dispatches from Richmond detailing conditions there, Dahlgren’s body being recovered and sent north, Tredegar, prisons, and Lincoln’s plan for peace
1865-04-18, Richmond Whig; military has reopened Cary street by putting “contrabands” to work
1865-04-18, Richmond Whig; Tom Griffin “well-known colored restaurant keeper” who lost both of his saloons in ehe evacuation fire, opens new saloon in the “iron-front” buildings on Governor street
1865-04-20, Richmond Whig; circular order “to the unemployed poor of Richmond” clarifying responsibilities of Freedmen, and the army’s standards for the issuance of rations
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
1865-04-22, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper; Account of Lincoln’s visit to Richmond from a sketch artist – notes Lincoln’s recent illness
1865-05-31, Washington Daily National Republican; details of colored troops are burying Union troops at the battlefields
1865-06-03, The National Freedman; important article about schools for Freedmen. First African Church and Chimborazo mentioned specifically
1865-06-08, White Cloud (Kan.) Chief; details of colored troops are busy burying Union soldiers at the Richmond battlefields. Notes that “several hundred” skeletons were interred near Cold Harbor.
1865-06-13, Richmond Whig; interesting paragraph about the new names of former slaves

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