The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-03-25

and had his office on the south side OF
Bank street near Twelfth. Robert Ould
was commissioner OF exchange OF prison.
ers. and had his office on Ninth street, in a
building adjoining the War Department;
but il was subsequently in the upper part
OF building on the south side Of Main
between Ninth and Tenth. The camp OF
parollcd and exchanged prisoners was at
Camp Lee. and the senior surgeon Of the
same was DR.. William p. Palmer.
WATTS AND REAGAN.
Hon. Thomas ii. Watts, OF Alabama. who
was Attorney-General, had his office in the
Mechanics Institute, and resided sat Mr..
RatcliIe's. :. 5. Marshall near Ninth"
James VI. Matthews was the law clerk oil
the Department.
Hon. John II. Reagan, OF Texas, was
= stmaster-General, and had his office in
Goddin Hall, aud resided at the northwest
corner OF Marshall and Second streets.
STATE WAR GOVERNMENT.
John Letcher was Governor, and Colonel
6. Bassett French his aid; Robert l.. Mon
tague was Lieutenant-Governor; j. Ran.
Tucker. Acknowledgement; Henry w.
Thomas, OF Fairfax, Second Auditor;
John G..Mosby, Jr., Assistant AdIutant-
General, and Captain (Judge) Edward H.
Fitzhugh, Quartermaster OF State forces.
The Supreme Court judges were John
J. Allen, William Daniel, Il. {. J.. Mon
cure, William J. Robertson, and George
III. Lee. The Sheriff OF Richmond was
Henry X. Elyson, and his deputies Isaac
W. Walker, jackson b. Wood, and VIII
liam II. Pleasants. Robert Howard was
clerk OF the Hastings Court, and Hon. W.
ii. Lyons Judge.
LEGISLATURE II 1863.
Among the members OF the State Senate
were Charles B. Ball. Loudoun; Joseph
Christian. MiddleseX: r. \. Coghill. Am
herst; Asa ID. Dickinson, Prince Edward
William Frazier, Rockbridge; John r.
Garnet, Hcnrico; George L. Garrison,
Accomac: John II. Guy, Goochllnd; Ben
jamln II. Nash. Chesterfield; James Nee
son, Marion; w. -. Quesenberry, Caro-
line: and James c. Taylor, Montgomery:
The following were among the dele
gates: II. w. Sheiley, Augusta; i. w
Mckinney. Buckingham; +. V. Winston
Louisa; Thomas i. Goode, Mecklenburg
Warner T.. Jones, Gloucester; Joseph D.
English. Hcnrico; John Staples, Patrick
A. NJ. Kelley, Petersburg; A s. Buiord
Pittsylyania; Wyndham Robertson. ID. j
Burr, and David j. saunders, Richmond
John I. Harris, Rockingham; and John l.
Marye. Jr., spotsylvania.
\ goodly number Of these Legislators
were also serving in the army.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Joseph Mayo was Mayor. X. 7. Seal, +
ID. Chalkley. and John ID. Perrin were il
the day police; and J. b. PleaSants, Lewis
NJ. Carter. and 4. X. Cousins in the night
police. 4. Y. Stokes, y. b. Hill, +. a. j
Clopton. James A. Scott, K. +. Walker, anC
q. h. Crutchtield Were OF the City Coun
ell.
PREACHRRS-H0sPITALS ALS-NEwsPAPERs.
Among the city pastors were Rev
Mcssrs. Duncan. lIoge, Mlnnigerode. Pc
terkin. Burrows, Jeter, Doggett, Edwards
Moore, Reid. Pettigrew, Langhornc
Woodbridge, Seeley, Norwood, and Bishol
McGill.
Uoward's Grove, On the Mechanlcsyill
turnpike, and ChimboraZo Hill and tn
! fields near the old Reservoir were covered
with hospitals. Several Of the hotels ant
many factories were turned into hospitals
Richmond College was the Louisiana Hos
pital. The Female Institute was hospita
for officers. The almshousc was Genera
Hospital, No. 1. Seabrook's warchous
was a prison hospital.
The daily newspapers were the Dispatch
Wing, Enquirer, Sentinel, and Erdmine'
Henry Rives Pollard, who was then new
editor Of the Examiner, also kept 18th
Confederate rcading-room near wher
Iyes's saloon now is, on Eleventh street
He subsequently, revived the Examiner an
/ sold IT TO Thomas ii. Wynne, and the
| commenced the publication OF the SOuthcJ'
| Opinion, and was its editor and proprieto
when he was killed near the entrance I
FergussOn's office, Fourteenth street nea
/ Main.
RETROSPECT.
4 competent hand might take this oil
| directory, and, starting out from il, writ
history OF the war. In il there are
thousand suggestions. They will lose bu
| little by age, but rs time moves on will bt
come more and more precious till the da
when the War History Of Richmond sha
be written and they become a part OF Il
and form one OF the most valuable cOntr
buttons TO the record OF the struggle bC
tween the Statcs-of the rise aad fall OF th
| Coniederacy.
! The Southern ExDOSffiOn.