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

Written Accounts

1866-04-16, Richmond Dispatch; lengthy and chatty description of the fire at Chimborazo – fire in a building on the western edge, detached from the main village. Crowd watches
1866-04, The Cosmopolite, “Reminiscences of A Southern Hospital. By Its Matron.” Part 4
1866-05-26, Shreveport (La.) Semi-Weekly News; description of Chimborazo Hospital and what has happened to it after the war – mentions freedmen’s schools there, negroes living in the former wards, and notes that the buildings are being sold at auction
1866-06-25, Richmond Dispatch; two negroes fight at Chimborazo – eventually beating each other with rocks. One man’s skull fractured, assumed fatally. The other not yet arrested.
1866-06-26, Richmond Dispatch; Tom White, negro living at Chimborazo, caught after stealing a traveler’s trunk
1866-07-06, Richmond Whig; white youth shot through the heart by a negro at Chimborazo
1866-07-10, Richmond Dispatch; another “riot” at Chimborazo/Rocketts – white man shot and killed
1866-07-13, Richmond Dispatch; 7 arrests in connection with the “Rocketts riot” (Chimborazo?)
1866-07-16, Richmond Dispatch; account of acquittal of R. D. Ogden
1866-07-17, Richmond Dispatch; fascinating account of the execution of a former USCT soldier for murder. Execution took place inside Libby Prison

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