Deserters
Information about deserters in Richmond, VA during the Civil War

Written Accounts

1863-11-27, Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VI, pp. 586-588; Complaint on conditions at Belle Isle and Libby; also report on mortality at Belle Isle from Carrington (to Winder)
1863, Richmond Dispatch; Charles Williams into jail. CSN deserter, caught trying to be an infantry substitute. Probably Castle Thunder.
1864-01-06, Richmond Dispatch; Chimborazo and Winder statistics
1864-01-16, Richmond Sentinel; 18 yankees escape from building across street from Castle Thunder
1864-01-16, Richmond Whig; eighteen Yankee deserters escape from the prison opposite Castle Thunder by cutting through the wall into an adjacent commissary warehouse
1864-01-20, Richmond Sentinel; most of escapees from building across street from Castle Thunder caught
1864-01-23, Virginia Historical Society; Letter from Jno. L. Ligon, Clerk at Castle Thunder, writing on behalf of a man whom Ligon was accosted by and later shot.
1864-02-15, New York Times; Libby Prison escape notice
1864-02-23, Richmond Whig; another jailbreak from the prison opposite Castle Thunder - 22 escape, 16 recaptured. Says several hundred deserters are held there, and gives a great physical description
1864-03-01, Richmond Whig; three men, who were caught while attempting to go north, are taken to Castle Thunder

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