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

Written Accounts

1862-12-08, William A. Carrington Papers; Inspection Report of South Carolina Hospital, with drawing
1862-12-09, Richmond Dispatch; body of negro man fished out of the canal basin
1862-12-10, Richmond Dispatch; Jackson Triplett, 54NC, died 12/8 at Castle Thunder – typhoid pneumonia; unnamed sentinel at Camp Lee supposedly froze to death, 12/7
1862-12-15, Richmond Enquirer; Surgeon Coffin, at the Receiving Hospital, advertises to find the name of a man who arrived at the hospital deceased
1862-12-17, Richmond Dispatch; Maxcy Gregg’s body arrived 12/15 – placed in Provost Marshal’s office. City Battalion & Public Guard, with full band, escorted it to R&P RR depot 12/16 afternoon. Route of parade given. No Hollywood.
1862-12-18, Richmond Dispatch; Yankee captain named A. C. Webster, WVa unit, put in Castle Thunder, on 12/17 for murder of CS prisoner in western VA
1862-12-18, Richmond Dispatch; Geo. W. Hitchcock, 18th Miss. & ACS at Libby & city prisons, died 12/17 at Howard’s Grove, of smallpox
1862-12-19, Richmond Dispatch; drunk woman falls into the canal near Castle Thunder – infant drowns, she put in the cage
1862-12-19, Richmond Enquirer; drunken woman drowns her child near Libby Prison
1862-12-20, Richmond Dispatch; R. A. Slaughter, E53Va., died 12/19 at Castle Thunder Hospital, disease

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