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

Written Accounts

1863-01-17, Richmond Dispatch; Very large Castle Thunder list
1863-01-20, Richmond Dispatch; 700 more POWs arrive – 800 to be sent away for exchanged. Jno. Martin, 9th Indiana, died on street - typhoid
1863-01-21, Richmond Dispatch; Castle Thunder update
1863-01-23, Richmond Dispatch; 37 stragglers to Castle Thunder, 24 others sent from Castle Thunder to army. Wm. Richardson, Co. C, Wheat’s Battalion, died 1/22 at prison hospital
1863-01-28, Richmond Dispatch; important account of bridge collapse at 8th st.
1863-01-29, Richmond Dispatch; update on bridge collapse – inquest, etc. Three federal soldiers remain to be accounted for. F. Padican, 18th Miss., corpse fished out of canal, too. Local burial. Not part of bridge collapse?
1863-01-30, Richmond Dispatch; Libby update. 4 men (unnamed) died there 1/29. 1183 POWs now there.
1863-01-31, Richmond Dispatch; Long account of Camp Lee execution of Jno. Milligan, 5VaCav. 1200 soldiers present, including 200 of City Battalion
1863-02-06, Richmond Dispatch; 3 executions today. Michael Bucton, for murder, civil case, at “usual place,” “below the Powder Magazine.” Jas. Broderick & Michael Kerns, Letcher Artillery, to be shot at Camp Lee
1863-02-06, Richmond Dispatch; Castle Thunder update

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