Tobacco Factories
Information about Tobacco Factories during the Civil War

Written Accounts

1865-04-15, Richmond Whig; incredible list of the property destroyed in the evacuation
1865-12-20, Official Records, Ser. I, Vol. XLVI/1, p. 1292-1295; Ewell's report on the fall of Richmond and the retreat to Appomattox
1866-01-16, Richmond Examiner; ad for real estate sale, including William Grant’s tobacco factory (former GH#12). Detailed description.
1866-01-24, Richmond Examiner; Castle Thunder and Lightning to be evacuated, and prisoners transferred to Libby Prison
1866-04-20, Richmond Examiner; Castle Thunder is being repaired to become a tobacco factory again. Libby Prison is “partly transformed into a grocery and commission house.”
1866-04, The Cosmopolite, “Reminiscences of A Southern Hospital. By Its Matron.” Part 4
1866, DeForest (81st NY), Random Sketches...; 1866 memoir describing conditions in the early Richmond prisons, Libby and Belle Isle
1868-08-08, Southern Opinion; Libby Prison has ceased to be a prison, the U. S. Army guard and prisoners transfers to Elba Park, formerly the home of John Minor Botts
1871-05-25, Saline County Journal (Salina, Kan.); interesting post-war details of prominent Southerners –names Joseph R. Anderson and Franklin Stearns as two of the wealthiest men in the South.
1872-03-27, Richmond Daily State Journal; very lengthy description of the tobacco industry in Richmond and very detailed look at Castle Thunder, now returned to tobacco operations

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