Streets
Information about streets in Richmond during the Civil War

Written Accounts

1863-03-26, Richmond Dispatch; new workshops for the Virginia Central RR are “at the head of Seventeenth or Valley street”
1863-03-27, Richmond Dispatch; River in flood. Boy died in cellar of home, corner 18th & Cary, by drowning in rising water
1863-04-07, Richmond Examiner; account of the trials of several of the bread rioters, great details on individual cases
1863-04-10, Richmond Dispatch; Runaway notice, Battery #17
1863-04-23, Richmond Dispatch; prominent unnamed citizen garroted, 9th and Marshall
1863-04-25, Richmond Dispatch; Clerk of Confederate House of Representatives murdered by former employee, 10th and Bank
1863-04-25, Richmond Enquirer; Clerk of Confederate House of Representatives murdered by former employee, 10th and Bank
1863-04-27, Richmond Dispatch; extensive testimony on the fatal shooting of Robert E. Dixon, clerk of the Confederate House of Representatives, but Robert S. Forde, one of his former clerks.
1863-04-29, Richmond Dispatch; preliminary examination of Robert S. Forde for killing Robert Dixon, clerk of the Confederate House, in Bank Street – includes fascinating letter explaining the motivation for the killing.
1863-05-04, Richmond Dispatch; Frances Kelley in court as a Bread Rioter; Robert S. Forde sends his case to the Hustings Court

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