Capitol Square
Information about Capitol Square in Richmond, VA, during the Civil War.

 Written Accounts

1903-03-10, Richmond Times-Dispatch; commentary from North Carolina about the Stuart monument: “Virginia runs to monuments”
1903-05-13, Richmond Times-Dispatch; Stuart monument may not be placed in Capitol Square – push within City Council to give $20K provided the monument go somewhere else
1903-06-02, Richmond Times-Dispatch; prominent sculptors, except Valentine and St. Gaudens, to compete for design of the Stuart monument. Still debate over site.
1903-06-21, Richmond Times-Dispatch; letter to the editor inquiring why the Davis monument is not placed on Capitol Square – writer advocates for Stuart to go to Monroe Park or “near the Lee monument”
1903-08-18, Richmond Times-Dispatch; designs for the Stuart monument are coming in – still intending to put the monument in Capitol Square
1903-08-25, Richmond Times-Dispatch; nine equestrian models for the J. E. B. Stuart monument have arrived. Competition is now closed, to be voted on soon. Monument to cost $20K exclusive of the pedestal, and will be placed on Capitol Square
1904-02-10, Richmond Times-Dispatch; excellent details on the evacuation fire in Richmond, April 3, 1865. Compares the fire to the recent fire in Baltimore
1906-12-15, Ripley, Edward H. NY MOLLUS, Vol. III, 1907, pp. 472-502; excellent description of the fall and capture of Richmond; notes that he has the key and records for Libby Prison
1929-07-19, Richmond Times-Dispatch; letter to the editor expressing doubt that the bell of the Capitol Square bell tower was taken down and cast into cannon during the Civil War. Says it was moved to the “fire engine house, on Broad Street, near Tenth.”
1932-06, Richmond Magazine; "The Confederate Tradition of Richmond." Freeman, Douglas Southall, p. 42.

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