Seven Days' Battles
Information about Seven Days' Battles in Richmond, VA during the Civil War

Written Accounts

1862-07-19, Richmond Dispatch; great article on Gen. McCall misbehaving at 18th Street prison
1862-07-19, Richmond Dispatch; List of Yankee officers sent north on 7/18
1862-07-22, Philadelphia Press; lists of Pennsylvania prisoners in Richmond; describes prison of Reynold and McCall
1862-07-23, Pennsylvania Daily Telegraph; letter from General Geo. A. McCall describing his imprisonment; notes that one of his officers is held in Chimborazo Hospital
1862-07-23, Pittsburgh Gazette; List of Pennsylvania soldiers in Richmond prisons
1862-07-23, Richmond Dispatch; Pamunkey Indians reportedly aided Yankees in May-June, as guides
1862-07-28, Richmond Dispatch; 1100 WIA POWs sent away over the weekend. 300 more arrive from Savage’s. Talbott & Bonn’s Factory, 18th Street, still has officers. Other factory prisons now empty.
1862-08-02, Richmond Dispatch; WIA at Kent & Paine’s Hospital wish to see Alpheus Bolling, who carried them there from battlefields
1862-08-02, Shippensburg (PA) News; early set of letters from Libby Prison, relates especially impressions of the exchange system and his relatively short stay in prison.
1862-08-04, Richmond Examiner; Provost Marshal’s officers capture stolen property from the battlefields

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