Battle of First Manassas
Information about the response in Richmond, VA to the Battle of First Manassas

Written Accounts

1862-02-10, Richmond Dispatch; 370 local POWs due to be exchanged
1862-08-06, Richmond Dispatch; 2,500 Lynchburg prisoners and 600 Salisbury prisoners will be brought to Richmond for exchange, including Col. O. B. Wilcox, ad Col. Michael Corcoran
1862-08-16, Richmond Dispatch; Corcoran, Willcox & others exchanged 8/15
1862-08-18, Richmond Dispatch; obit. of General Winder. Body arrived 7/17. Funeral Capitol Square, burial Hollywood
1862-08-28, National Republican (Washington, DC); anecdote of cruelty on the part of Jackson Warner of Libby Prison to a patient in “Dr. Higginbotham’s hospital.” Notes that Warner’s family was from the North, and he steals money to send to them.
1863-01-23, Richmond Dispatch; captured Yankee railroad engine has been re-gauged and assigned to the Danville RR
1864-05-28, Richmond Examiner; total number of prisoners registered at Libby Prison since July 1861 is ninety-seven thousand
1864-07-15, Richmond Examiner; very few prisoners left in Richmond; they have been forwarded to Andersonville
1864-11-15, Richmond Enquirer; great description of the operation of the Ordnance Department - mentions the Arsenal at length
1895, New England Magazine; good description of life in Prison No. 1 (Ligon's Prison) during 1861. Comments on Henry Wirz as an employee there.

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