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

Written Accounts

1862-08-11, Richmond Dispatch; James Graham, Ritter’s Battery, dies on the spot at Oak Hall Restaurant, Franklin Street
1862-08-12, Richmond Dispatch; Sgt. J. Walton, G7GA Battalion recently killed trying to escape from military prison. Not a deserter, but paperless & attempting to rejoin company
1862-08-13, Richmond Dispatch; attempted deserter, confined in Castle Godwin, is executed
1862-08-18, Richmond Whig; Gen. C. S. Winder’s body arrived and lay in state in the Capitol. He will be buried in Hollywood Cemetery.
1862-08-21, Shirleysburg (PA) Herald; letter from soldier on Belle Isle, estimates over 4,000 prisoners there
1862-08-25, Richmond Dispatch; a soldiers, injured in a jump from a hotel window, dies in Baskerville Hospital (GH#7)
1862-08-25, Richmond Enquirer; Louisiana Zouave, evading police, jumps out of a window of the Columbian hotel, fractures his skull, taken to Baskerville Hospital, and later dies
1862-09 - 1864-08, National Archives; Statistics of Chimborazo Hospital
1862-09-06, National Archives RG 109, Ch. 6, Vol. 199.5, p. 19; Wirz orders Capt. Montgomery to send in the names of prisoners who die at Belle Isle each morning
1862-09-08, Richmond Dispatch; obituary for Rawley W. Fennell, d. 9/8 of typhoid, lately clerk at Chimborazo

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