Free Negroes
Information about Free Negros in Richmond, VA during the Civil War

Written Accounts

1864-09-05, Richmond Dispatch; Mayor's Court cases reported on September 5, 1864
1864-09-09, Richmond Whig; Man sent to Castle Thunder for being a spy and recruiting negroes for federal service
1864-09-10, Richmond Sentinel; former keeper of "the Rebel House," under the Exchange Hotel and a free negro escape from Castle Thunder and are recaptured
1864-09-10, Richmond Whig; two Castle Thunder escapees caught
1864-09-15, Richmond Whig; free negro charged with stealing linens from Stuart Hospital, released after it was found that the Steward of the hospital had already administered a "thrashing"
1864-09-20, Charleston Mercury; editorial notation describing the utilization of prisoners from Libby as laborers - questions whether this can be expanded (copied from the Richmond Examiner)
1864-09-28, Richmond Sentinel; locomotive traveling up the connector track on 8th street, gets out of control near the Spotswood and falls back down into the canal bridge
1864-10-14, Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VII, pp. 987-988; Turner reports on negro soldiers at Libby Prison and Castle Thunder
1864-10-27, Richmond Whig; negro boy is killed after trying to jump on to the Fredericksburg train on Broad street; appeal for this practice to be stopped
1864-11-07, Richmond Sentinel; two boys arrested near the Second Baptist Church for throwing rocks. They are members of the "basin cats."

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