Other Military Organizations
Information about other military organizations in Richmond during the Civil War

Written Accounts

1863-04-07, Richmond Dispatch; big article on Castle Thunder escape attempt. Charles Carroll, A53Va killed in the attempt.
1863-04-07, Richmond Dispatch; Thos. Kane into Castle Thunder as deserter.
1863-04-07, Richmond Sentinel; deserter from the 54VA shot and killed while trying to escape from Castle Thunder
1863-04-08, Richmond Dispatch; Charles Smith, Alexandria Artillery, into Castle Thunder for forgery; A. G. Springer, E1Md, into Castle Thunder for desertion. One other Castle Thunder inmate
1863-04-09, Richmond Examiner; Castle Thunder items; notes that two members of the city battalion (the guards for the Richmond prisons) have been imprisoned for sleeping at their posts
1863-04-11, Richmond Sentinel; details of the execution of Captain Webster, a Castle Thunder prisoner, at Camp Lee
1863-04-18, Richmond Examiner; Two artillerists, including a man from Battery #2, who escaped from Castle Thunder have been recaptured
1863-04-27, William A. Edwards CSR; important letter complaining over the appointment of chaplain at Drewry’s Bluff chapel
1863-04-29, Richmond Dispatch; CSA Arsenal receives for safekeeping the Fayette Artillery brass six-pounder, in use since 1836. Replaced by Napoleons. Arsenal also has a “brass rifled Dahlgren howitzer” ex-Richmond Howitzer
1863-05-03, Official Records, Ser. I, Vol. XXV/2, p. 777; 300 convalescents from Winder armed to repel Stoneman's Raid

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