After 1865 Written Accounts
Written accounts after 1865 from various sources about Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

1867-08-13, Richmond Dispatch; Ladies’ festival to be held at the Gaines farm to rebuild Beulah Church – opportunity of visiting the Gaines’ Mill and Cold Harbor battlefields
1867-08-23, Richmond Dispatch; description of the festival to rebuild Beulah Church at Cold Harbor – held at Dr. Gaines’ house; Robert Stiles speaks
1867-08-27, Richmond Whig; city of Richmond to support those negroes who were here at the time of the evacuation, not those who came afterwards
1867-08-28, Richmond Dispatch; colored boy critically injured by a rock thrown by another near Grant’s factory, 19th and Franklin (former GH#12)
1867-08-28, Richmond Dispatch; little boy jumps on train on Broad street, falls, has legs crushed, and later dies – son of soldier killed at Ft. Gregg at Petersburg
1867-08-28, Richmond Dispatch; statistics of rations issued by the Freedmen’s Bureau for the month of July – many more issued to whites
1867-09-25, Edgefield (SC) Advertiser; report that Tredegar Iron Works employed 600 people and paid out $25,000 in wages in August
1867-11-01, Richmond Whig; correspondence between Gen. Schofield and John H. Gilmer regarding the misconduct charges Gilmer wishes to file against Col. Thomas E. Rose
1867-11-12, Richmond Whig; Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Thomas E. Rose (now Captain, 11th US Infantry) of Libby Prison tunnel fame, demands court of enquiry into unstated “certain charges made…in relation to his conduct and the discharge of his duty as super
1867-11-19, Richmond Whig; Court of Enquiry of Col. Thomas E. Rose holds its preliminary meeting

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