Commercial Sites
Information about Commercial Sites in Richmond, VA during the Civil War

Written Accounts

1863-04-18, Richmond Sentinel; another Bread Rioter sent on for felony
1863-04-25, Richmond Enquirer; Clerk of Confederate House of Representatives murdered by former employee, 10th and Bank
1863-04-27, Richmond Dispatch; extensive testimony on the fatal shooting of Robert E. Dixon, clerk of the Confederate House of Representatives, but Robert S. Forde, one of his former clerks.
1863-04-29, Richmond Dispatch; preliminary examination of Robert S. Forde for killing Robert Dixon, clerk of the Confederate House, in Bank Street – includes fascinating letter explaining the motivation for the killing.
1863-05-01, Richmond Dispatch; C. R. Rees advertisement – notes that his gallery is above West & Johnston’s bookstore
1863-05-01, Richmond Dispatch; someone at Rees’s Gallery, 145 Main st., looking for substitute
1863-05-04, Richmond Dispatch; Bread Rioters in court. Wm. J. Lush, who robbed Knott’s store gets 1 year in prison. Ann Bell fined $75 & 30 days jail – lenient, as she mother of 3
1863-05-21, Richmond Dispatch; West & Johnston advertisement for Les Miserables
1863-09-25, Richmond Dispatch; man fined for keeping a drinking saloon on 17th between Main and Cary
1863-10-13, Richmond Dispatch; paragraph praising the beer from the City Brewery, and denouncing the rot-gut “whiskey” commonly being sold

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