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Information on Battlefields and Battles in Richmond, VA during the Civil War

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1863-09-13, New York Sunday Mercury; letter from exchanged soldier in the 9th NY, relating experiences as a prisoner on Belle Isle
1863-09-13, Library of Congress; letter from Phoebe Pember to her sister describing social life in Richmond, etc. Mentions being offered a furlough but refusing it
1863-09-25, Richmond Dispatch; 160 Yankees arrive from Charleston, including 20 officers
1863-09-26, Richmond Sentinel; description of Libby Prison; says 600-700 officers there
1863-10-05, Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VI, pp. 348-349; Pennsylvanians from Gettysburg confined in Castle Thunder
1863-10-05, Richmond Examiner; Maryland officer dies in the Libby Prison hospital
1863-10-22, Richmond Whig; wounded arriving at Seabrook's Hospital (GH#9)
1863-11-28, New York Herald; testimony from released federal surgeons regarding poor conditions
1863-12-02, Richmond Sentinel; 510 Yankee prisoners at Barrett's factory
1863-12-05, Harper’s Weekly; article describing Belle Isle, and providing a highly propagandized engraving of the prison camp. Article describes suffering on Belle Isle, and mentions that 43 men are dying in Richmond hospitals each day

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