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

Written Accounts

1862-07-10, Richmond Dispatch; Capt. J. Hatley Norton at Redoubt #4 demands that members of Capt. Patterson’s Co. (“lately turned over to my command”) report in.
1862-07-10, Richmond Dispatch; J. Hatley Norton lists deserters from his company at Battery #6
1862-07-12, Richmond Dispatch; G. W. Semple at Gwathmey Hospital orders patients in private quarters to report
1862-07-14, Richmond Dispatch; J. Hatley Norton, Commanding at Battery #4, adv for deserter Jno. J. Peterson
1862-07-15, Richmond Dispatch; G. W. Nelson list 28 AWOLs from Hanover Artillery. Anyone thinking themselves unfit report to McCaw at Chimborazo. Battery camped on RYRRR, attached to Colquitt.
1862-07-24, Richmond Dispatch; AWOL notice for Arthur Rogers, of Dabney’s Siege Battery, who deserted from Winder Hospital. Unit camped at Tree Hill
1862-07-24, Richmond Dispatch; Col. Henry Forno at Hardgrove’s Factory, “foot of Main St.,” collecting all men of McLaw’s Division in town
1862-07-25, Richmond Dispatch; Capitol Square no longer “a resort for idle soldiers”
1862-07-26, Charleston Mercury; notes that the stench of "suppurating wounds" from Chimborazo Hospital can be smelt upon approaching Richmond on the train; notes on the military situation and local feeling
1862-08-01, Richmond Dispatch; Martin Hogan, deserter, to be shot 8/5. He is in a Richmond prison now.

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