Van Lew Mansion (23rd & Grace Sts.), Richmond, Va.
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- Virginia Commonwealth University
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- Rarely Seen Richmond
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Richmond, Virginia
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- Card Text \(transcribed from postcard\): This stately old mansion owes its fame to the fact that it was the former home of Miss Van Lew, a Union Sympathizer during the Civil War. She frequently found means of conveying secret information to the Federal armies investing Richmond, and harbored for a time the 19 prisoners who escaped from Libby Prison. After the war she was appointed Post-Mistress of Richmond by Gen'l Grant, then president of the U.S. The building is now used as private hospital. Note: Beautiful and Historical Richmond, Va. Series No. 17-D; City/Location: Richmond (Va.)
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