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

Written Accounts

1866-07-19, Richmond Dispatch; obituary notice for Dr. Wm. A. Carrington, former Medical Director of Confederate hospitals in Virginia
1866-07-19, Richmond Dispatch; Richmond Howitzer “Memorial Confederation” has formed in Richmond – already corresponding with the Hollywood ladies about disinterring bodies along the Williamsburg Road
1866-07-20, New York Times; fascinating account of the execution of a former USCT soldier for murder. Execution took place inside Libby Prison. Rope snapped the first time, requiring a second attempt. Notes that the man had been a soldier
1866-08-11, Richmond Dispatch; detailed list of reinterments of Union dead at the various national cemeteries – Belle Isle, Cold Harbor, Malvern Hill, Seven Pines, Fort Harrison, Hollywood and Oakwood included
1866, Trowbridge, John T., The South...; account of the author's travels to Richmond and the adjoining battlefields. Good material on Belle Isle, Brown's Island, Libby Prison, battlefields near the city, Camp Lee
1866, DeForest (81st NY), Random Sketches...; 1866 memoir describing conditions in the early Richmond prisons, Libby and Belle Isle
1867-04-27, Richmond Dispatch; grand jury finds a true bill against Taliaferro Fisher, for murder of James Doyle on Chimborazo hill, 7/1/1866
1867-05-02, Richmond Dispatch; Camp Grant murder – 11th US soldier arrested and put in the county jail
1867-06-05, Richmond Dispatch; lengthy and important article describing the work of the Oakwood Ladies’ Memorial Association. Chimborazo mentioned
1867-08-10, Southern Opinion; description of Belle Isle as a prison camp – notes on the cemetery, the origins of the prison,the current state of the island

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