POW Exchanges
Information on POW Exchanges in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

Written Accounts

1864-02-08, Official Records, Ser. I, Vol. XXXIII, p. 144; mentioned
1864-02-27, Richmond Whig; list of Castle Thunder (7) and Libby Prison (8) inmates sent off by special exchange, including a woman found in men's clothes on Belle Isle, and a correspondent of the New York Herald
1864-03-06, Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VI, pp. 1087-1090; Report on sanitary conditions at Belle Isle
1864-03-09, Richmond Examiner; detailed description of the arrest and imprisonment in Castle Thunder of Detective Philip Cashmeyer – accused of passing treasonous and military information to an exchanged Union officer
1864-03-09, Richmond Sentinel; One of Gen. Winder's detectives (Cashmeyer) has been arrested while passing letters to a Yankee prisoner on a flag of truce boat
1864-03-09, Richmond Whig; detective Cashmeyer arrested for treason on a flag of truce boat while escorting Yankee prisoner and put in Castle Thunder
1864-03-10, Richmond Whig; more details on Detective Cashmeyer's case - he was not behaving treasonously, just stupidly.
1864-03-11, Richmond Whig; more on Cashmeyer's case
1864-03-14, Richmond Whig; Gen. Neal Dow and Capts. Sawyer and Flynn have been sent North
1864-03-22, Richmond Whig; 983 Yankees, including 63 officers, were sent off from Libby yesterday

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