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HENRICO, Virginia in the 1860s: 11 through 20 of 21

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  1. Captain Sally Tompkins Defends Top Civil War Hospital
    date June 9, 1864map HENRICO, Virginiatags Medicine/Health, Health/Death, Science/Technology, Civil War, Women

    Filling a pressing need for medical services, Sally Tompkins established a hospital after the First Battle of Bull Run that became the best hospital during the Civil War.  Running the hospital was not always easy; Tompkins faced pressure from many people to close down the hospital.  In June of 1864, Dr. Carrington, an inspector of hospitals for the South, filed an order to have the Robertson Hospital...

  2. General Orders to CSA Forces
    date October 22, 1864map HENRICO, Virginiatags War

    Issued at the command of Brigadier General T.L. Rosser, this release of general orders is meant to warn against and dissuade poor behavior within the Confederate forces. Quoting the first line of the orders, “the want of discipline has been the cause of additional disaster to this army.' Responding to such indiscretions as breaking rank during battle for the purpose of plundering or desertion...

  3. All Quiet on the Petersburg Front ... Or Was It?  Confederate Fort Harrison Lost to Union Army
    date September 28, 1864 to December 9, 1864map HENRICO, Virginiatags Civil War, Petersburg campaign, Fort Harrison, Fort Burnham

    According to the official chronology of skirmishes in the ongoing Battle of Petersburg, the time frame between the first major battle in June of 1864 and up to the final showdown in April of 1865 might appear relatively quiet.  It had been three years since a large number of these men had been recruited, and their term of service was soon to end – leaving many of them hoping to quietly finish out...

  4. Subsistence Bureau Circular
    date November 3, 1864map HENRICO, Virginiatags Agriculture, War

    Written after the passage of an impressments law, explained in General Orders No. 69 on August 27, 1864, this circular from the Confederacy's War Department in Richmond decries the lack of subsistence being provided for the war effort. Essentially, General Orders No. 69 held that “every exempt and detailed agriculturists' (i.e. plantation farmers, mainly) was to provide “100 pounds of bacon,...

  5. Confederacy Authorizes African American Troops
    date March 13, 1865map HENRICO, Virginiatags African-Americans, Slavery, War

    After years of debate, the Confederate Congress agreed to use African American troops on March 13th, 1865. This had been a highly controversial issue and many continued to disagree with the black involvement. Black soldiers were seen as inferior in ability, and Confederate generals and soldiers did not want to fight along side them, and they didn't trust them. However, the law was passed and signed...

  6. Charter Passed for Covington and Ohio Railroad
    date April 26, 1866map HENRICO, Virginiatags Economy, Migration/Transportation

    On April 26, 1866, the Virginia legislature passed a joint resolution with the state of West Virginia to charter the Covington and Ohio Railroad Company. The much needed line would run from the termination of the Virginia Central, at Covington, to the mouth of the Big Shady river off the Ohio, where it would connect to another rail line from Kentucky. According to the May 4th edition of The Louisville...

  7. Indictment of Jefferson Davis on Treason Charges
    date June 13, 1866map HENRICO, Virginiatags Health/Death

    Losing the Civil War crushed the South, both physically and psychologically, but the worst blow was yet to come. On June 13, 1866 in Norfolk, Virginia, Jefferson Davis, the former president of the Confederate States of America was indicted for treason. The physician who attended the imprisoned Jefferson Davis, Dr. John J. Craven, told of Davis' time in Fortress Monroe in his book, The Prison Life of...

  8. Jefferson Davis freed from prison.
    date May 13, 1867map HENRICO, Virginiatags War

    On May 13, 1867, Jefferson Davis walked free from prison on bail from Fort Monroe Virginia, after just three months of legal litigation. His bail cost 10,000. The United States had kept him in prison for two years after the collapse of the Confederacy, when the Union army had captured and imprisoned him on May 10, 1865 for treason. Even at the time of Davis' release people predicted that his trial...

  9. Maggie L. Walker born
    date July 15, 1867map HENRICO, Virginiatags African-Americans, Education, Race-Relations, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    Born to former slaves on July 15, 1867, shortly after the end of the Civil War, Maggie L. Walker would become one of the most influential black females at the turn of the century. From her roots in poverty in the city of Richmond, Walker became the first woman in the United States, black or white, to charter a bank when she opened St. Luke Penny Saving Bank in her hometown: the City of Richmond. ...

  10. Delegates convene in Richmond for the Constitutional Convention of Virginia
    date December 3, 1867map HENRICO, Virginiatags Race-Relations

    The process of Reconstruction played out differently for each Southern state. In Virginia, the process began smoothly but became more complicated in 1867, after the meeting of the Virginia Constitutional Convention.Representatives from every county wanted to be a part of the re-drafting of the constitution. In Nelson County, W.C. Carrington announced his candidacy in a letter addressed broadly, “To...

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