Streets
Information about streets in Richmond during the Civil War

Written Accounts

1899-08-10, National Tribune; “A Union Man in Richmond;” part four of serial account. Describes John Minor Bott’s stay in “a negro jail in Lombard Alley” [Castle Godwin], the economic situation in Richmond, the Battle of First Manassas
1899-08-17, National Tribune; “A Union Man in Richmond;” part five of serial account. Describes the scene in Richmond in early to mid-1863. Mentions hedonistic activity at the Exchange, Ballard and Spotswood hotels; prostitution and gambling flourishing
1899-09-21, National Tribune; “A Union Man in Richmond” part seven of serialized account. Describes the tough economic conditions in Richmond in 1863 (with a nice description of the scene at the Old Market), the small-pox epidemic in Richmond
1899-09-28, National Tribune; “A Union Man in Richmond” part eight of serialized account. Describes the capture and execution of Timothy Webster, the Libby Prison escape (mentions prisoners being aided by Van Lew)
1900-07-12, National Tribune; good account of the fall of Richmond in 1865, by a boy who lived on Church Hill; notes that advancing Union troops were fired upon from convalescent patients from Chimborazo
1901-01-22, Richmond Times; the paving of Tredegar Street is taken up by City Council
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
1904, A Boy's Experiences in the Civil War 1860-1865; excellent description of the VMI cadets' use of the Alms House as barracks and classrooms and cadet life in general; also mentions the cadets tending Confederate graves
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
1909-12-05, Richmond Times Dispatch; excellent reminiscence of the fall of Richmond

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