Women
Information about women in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

Written Accounts

1910-11-03, Alexandria (Va.) Gazette; the Van Lew mansion “is soon to disappear” – Richmond to purchase the property and build “a modern public school”
1910-11-11, Richmond Times-Dispatch; Mothers of children in the Bellevue School meet to discuss acquiring the Van Lew property for a new school
1910-12-14, Richmond Times-Dispatch; Sally L. Tompkins unveils tablet on the site of Robertson Hospital – very little description given
1910, Crook, William Henry, Through Five Administrations: Reminiscences of Colonel William H. Crook; Lincoln’s bodyguard describes the President’s visit to City Point and Richmond – highly suspect in its details
1911-07-08, St. Paul (Minn.) The Appeal; the purchase of the Van Lew house by Richmond for a school “seals its fate,” and the house “will soon exist only as a memory and a tradition.”
1911-11-07, Richmond Times-Dispatch; description of the unveiling of bronze plaque at the Libby Prison site – details of speeches given, which have little to do with the prison.
1912-09-01, Richmond Times-Dispatch; “Personal Reminiscences of the Adams Houses” by W. H. P. (William H. Parker?) – commentary on the Van Lew family before the house is pulled down with bitter condemnation against Elizabeth Van Lew whom the author descri
1912-10-03, Richmond Times-Dispatch; wife of Charles R. Rees dies
1913-03-06, Atlanta Constitution; interesting obituary of Phoebe Pember – says she was head matron of Chimborazo and was brevetted a Major.
1913-09-10, Winchester Evening Star; decent account of Elizabeth Van Lew and her spying efforts in Richmond

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