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

Written Accounts

1864-01-01, Richmond Sentinel; large number of prisoners admitted to Libby Prison, who were captured in the West
1864-01-21, Richmond Whig; two Yankees who escaped from Libby Prison tell a Chicago newspaper that they came upon some of the Richmond fortifications on their way out and the guns were completely unattended.
1864-03-01, Richmond Whig; 71 prisoners, captured by Mosby, arrive at Libby Prison
1864-03-03, Richmond Examiner; list of wounded received at GH#9
1864-03-03, Richmond Sentinel; reprinted in Southern Historical Society Papers Vol. 37 (1909), pp. 198-202. Part two of account of the repulse of Dahlgren's Raid. Indicates the Tredegar Battalion was responsible for the repulse.
1864-03-03, Richmond Whig; four of Hampton's cavalrymen, injured at Atlee's, arrive at Seabrook's
1864-04-27, Richmond Whig; 19 Yankee officers, inlcluding Gen. Wessels, captured at Plymouth are brought to Libby Prison
1864-04-29, Richmond Whig; Richmond hospitals are said to send all the patients to Petersburg, and to clean out all the hospitals in preparation for the spring campaign
1864-04, CSMSJ Vol. I, No. 4; report of John Stainback Wilson, Surg. Jackson Hospital of an interesting resection case
1864-05-07, Richmond Examiner; bandages needed at GH#4

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