Children
Information about children in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

Written Accounts

1862-04-19, Richmond Whig; little boy of John M. Francisco, clerk at Libby Prison, falls into the canal and drowns - a prisoner appeals to be allowed to go save the boy but is denied
1862-05-01, Richmond Dispatch; Miss Minerva Meredith (future bread rioter) has endured a combined verbal assault – her character is attested to by local police; Mayor Mayo referred to as “his royal rotundity”
1862-05-08, Richmond Dispatch; John Roberts, living on Belle Isle, looking for missing 7-year old daughter
1862-05-13, Richmond Dispatch; body found - little daughter of John Roberts, Belle Isle foundry
1862-05-13, Richmond Enquirer; daughter of a worker at the Belle Isle works drowns - body recovered near the Danville Bridge
1862-05-20, Richmond Dispatch; little boy hurt by falling from wall at St. John’s Churchyard
1862-05-21, Richmond Dispatch; little girls hold fund-raiser - donate $100 to Camp Winder
1862-05-22, Richmond Dispatch; kindly-treated poor woman names son after G. W. Alexander
1862-06-04, Richmond Dispatch; long article on RR accident in city, on 8th st - two injuries, canal bridge damaged, etc. On tracks connecting R&P w/ RF&P. Also boy run over on Broad, on connecting tracts between RF&P & Va. Cent.
1862-06-05, Richmond Enquirer; description of accidents involving freeloading boys on the new connecting railway between the Central road and the RF&P up Broad street.

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