Provost-Marshall Police
Information about the Provost-Marshall (person in charge of a group of military police) in Richmond, VA during the Civil War

 Written Accounts

1865-04-10, New York Times; incredible dispatches from Richmond describing the early days of Richmond’s occupation, Lincoln’s visit and the visits of other dignitaries.
1865-04-10, New York Times; incredible dispatches from Richmond describing the early days of Richmond’s occupation, Lincoln’s visit and the visits of other dignitaries.
1865-04-11, New York Times; Article describing the White House of the Confederacy, the military governance of the city, the destruction done by the fire (particularly to the mills), the newspapers in Richmond and what has become of the editors, and an ext
1865-04-15, Richmond Whig; incredible list of the property destroyed in the evacuation
1865-05-19, Richmond Whig; Official directory of Union officials in Richmond
1865-09-08, Richmond Whig; Rebecca Chandler, “the great trouble of the police court in Confederate days” arrested and sent to Castle Thunder for “habitual drunkenness, being disorderly and abusing everybody and everything she came across and in contact wi
1865-11-23, Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VIII, pp. 815-816; testimony from one of Gen. Winder's policemen - Libby & Castle Thunder mentioned.
1888-02-07, Richmond Dispatch; Libby Prison has been bought by a Chicago syndicate; extensive description of the history of Libby Prison.
1895-07-07, New York Times; 1866 letter from Thomas P. Turner, commandant of Libby Prison, detailing his escape to Cuba; with engraved image
1895-09-08, Richmond Dispatch; description of the wartime hanging of Louis Napoleon near the Alms House. Napoleon was convicted of counterfeiting. Also describes the trial of his confederate George Elam

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