City Point
Information about City Point in Richmond, VA, during the Civil War.

 Written Accounts

1863-09-13, New York Sunday Mercury; letter from exchanged soldier in the 9th NY, relating experiences as a prisoner on Belle Isle
1863-11-26, Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VI, pp. 572-574; Conditions at Libby and Belle Isle described
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
1864-02-27, Richmond Whig; list of Castle Thunder (7) and Libby Prison (8) inmates sent off by special exchange, including a woman found in men's clothes on Belle Isle, and a correspondent of the New York Herald
1864-03-09, Richmond Examiner; detailed description of the arrest and imprisonment in Castle Thunder of Detective Philip Cashmeyer – accused of passing treasonous and military information to an exchanged Union officer
1864-03-09, Richmond Sentinel; One of Gen. Winder's detectives (Cashmeyer) has been arrested while passing letters to a Yankee prisoner on a flag of truce boat
1864-03-09, Richmond Whig; detective Cashmeyer arrested for treason on a flag of truce boat while escorting Yankee prisoner and put in Castle Thunder
1864-03-14, Richmond Whig; Gen. Neal Dow and Capts. Sawyer and Flynn have been sent North
1864-03-22, Richmond Whig; 983 Yankees, including 63 officers, were sent off from Libby yesterday
1864-04-28, Richmond Whig; 31 Yankee deserters desire to be considered prisoners of war and are taken from Castle Thunder to Libby Prison

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