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

 Written Accounts

1864-05-02, Richmond Sentinel; 380 paroled Confederates arrive at Rocketts - officers are taken to the Officer's Hospital (GH#4) and enlisted men are taken to Chimboraz
1864-05-02, Richmond Whig; 380 returned Confederate prisoners arrive at Rocketts. The enlisted men are taken to Chimborazo Hospital, and the officers are taken either to private quarters or the "Officers’ hospital"
1864-07-04, New York Herald; war news - notes the destruction (during Hunter's Shenandoah Valley raid) of the Virginia Military Institute and a branch of the Tredegar Iron Works at Buchanan
1864-10-08, Official Records, Ser. I, Vol. XLII/3, p. 119; prisoners from Castle Thunder have been put into the Richmond defenses in front of Butler
1865-04-03, Washington Evening Star; Mary Lincoln arrived in Washington aboard the steamer Monohansett
1865-04-04, Century Magazine; Major Penrose’s recollections of Lincoln’s visit to Richmond. Declares that Tad was not there, but gives an excellent capsule history of the event.
1865-04-04, New York Herald; Details on the fall of Richmond and subsequent occupation - notes the reception of the Union soldiers in Richmond has been very pleasant
1865-04-05, Washington Evening Star; Mary Lincoln left Washington today at 11AM on the Monohansett for City Point
1865-04-06, New York Herald; Details on the Federal occupation of Richmond - notes that the furniture in the White House of the Confederacy was left behind, and that Tredegar survived the fire. Libby Prison and Castle Thunder are now full of Confederate p
1865-04-07, Richmond Whig; new (Northern) owners of the Spottswood Hotel

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