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Henrico County Jail
Information about Henrico County Jail in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

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1880-12-16, Richmond Dispatch; guard who shot and killed an escaping convict from Chimborazo fails to make bail and is jailed awaiting trial.
1891-08-20, National Tribune; good account of life in Richmond prisons in 1861
1911-12-11, Richmond Times-Dispatch; Pryce Lewis, formerly a Pinkerton spy, and confined in Libby Prison during the war, commits suicide in New York
1915-03-28, Richmond Times-Dispatch; letter to the editor mentioning seeing black Confederate soldiers drilling in 1865 (“new sort of Confederate soldiers”) and asking if anyone else remembers seeing them

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Atkinson's Factory
Barrett's Factory
Belle Isle
"The Cage"
Castle Godwin
Castle Lightning
Castle Thunder
City Jail
Crew & Pemberton's Warehouse*
Franklin Street Guard House
General Hospital #21*
General Hospital #22*
Grant's Factory*
Harwood's Factory*
Henrico County Jail
Libby Prison
Liggon's Prison*
"Officer's Prison on 18th Street"
Prison Depot*
"Prison opposite Castle Thunder"
Ross Factory Hospital*
Scott's Factory Prison
Second Alabama Hospital*
Smith Factory Prison
State Penitentiary

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