Deaths
Information about deaths in Richmond, VA during the Civil War

Written Accounts

1862-07-16, Richmond Enquirer; call for improvements in memorialization at Oakwood Cemetery
1862-07-19, Richmond Enquirer; mortality among wounded prisoners is very great - 20 died at the York River RR depot
1862-07-21, Richmond Dispatch; patient has been shot at Louisiana Hospital by one of the guard. The offending parties are in Castle Godwin
1862-07-22, Richmond Dispatch; body found floating near “the gauge dock of the basin.” Supposed to be a soldier who fell in the canal near the Armory bridge a few days ago.
1862-07-22, Richmond Dispatch; Fake provost officer murders a man - paragraph within testimony from Lt. Booker describing Provost Procedure for arrests
1862-07-23, Pennsylvania Daily Telegraph; letter from General Geo. A. McCall describing his imprisonment; notes that one of his officers is held in Chimborazo Hospital
1862-07-23, Richmond Dispatch; shooting of a patient at Louisiana hospital
1862-07-26, Richmond Examiner; Oakwood cemetery described negatively; men are buried 3 deep
1862-07-28, Richmond Dispatch; 1100 WIA POWs sent away over the weekend. 300 more arrive from Savage’s. Talbott & Bonn’s Factory, 18th Street, still has officers. Other factory prisons now empty.
1862-07-31, Richmond Dispatch; Obituary of Geo. Mathews, C11 Miss, who dies of his wounds at Danville (Manchester) Hospital [future GH#28]. Obit blasts hospital for poor care

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