Executions
Information about executions in Richmond, VA during the Civil War

Written Accounts

1863-03-30, Richmond Dispatch; Capt. A. Webster escapes Castle Thunder again, but sprains his ankle in a leap from the 3rd floor & thus recaptured
1863-03-30, Richmond Sentinel; Capt. Webster, under sentence of death, attempts to escape from Castle Thunder, but sprains his ankle in the jump, and doesn't get far before being recaptured
1863-04-01, Richmond Dispatch; Capt. Webster respited for 10 days
1863-04-08, Richmond Dispatch; gallows erected at Camp Lee for Webster’s hanging
1863-04-10, Richmond Dispatch; Webster still on track to be hanged
1863-04-11, Richmond Dispatch; details on A. C. Webster hanging at Camp Lee. Wrenn’s Henrico Dragoons escorted carriage from Castle Thunder to Camp Lee.
1863-04-11, Richmond Sentinel; details of the execution of Captain Webster, a Castle Thunder prisoner, at Camp Lee
1863-04-20, Richmond Dispatch; 58 new Yankees for Libby
1863-04, Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. V, pp. 871-924; Evidence taken before the committee of the House of Representatives of the Confederate States appointed to inquire into the treatment of prisoners at Castle Thunder (large, pdf attached)
1863-05-01, Richmond Dispatch; Chas. Dale in a Richmond prison, sentenced to death. A “Buffalo” sent in by Longstreet from Suffolk area

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