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

Written Accounts

1862-04-28, Richmond Dispatch; Oakwood cemetery is the burial spot for "most, if not all" of the dead from Richmond hospitals; appeal to hold corpses several days before burial
1862-04-28, Richmond Dispatch; soldier of the 21st MI loitering about the "C. S. Military Prisons" [Libby Prison] is taken into custody, assaults "Mr. Ross, clerk of the prison" and Lieut. Turner "who has charge of the prison" sends him to the Provost Mar
1862-04-29, Richmond Dispatch; hung jury in the case of a man who shot the “Sergeant of the Guard at the C. S. Military Prison” last summer
1862-05-05, Richmond Dispatch; paper retracts statement of bodies being carried to cemetery before really dead
1862-05-06, Richmond Dispatch; Oakwood filling up fast, hospitals crowded – paper suggests the hospitals are “killing off” soldiers
1862-05-08, Richmond Dispatch; John Roberts, living on Belle Isle, looking for missing 7-year old daughter
1862-05-13, Richmond Dispatch; body found - little daughter of John Roberts, Belle Isle foundry
1862-05-13, Richmond Enquirer; daughter of a worker at the Belle Isle works drowns - body recovered near the Danville Bridge
1862-05-19, Richmond Enquirer; servant of Dr. Higginbotham shot and killed by a sentinel at Libby Prison while sweeping out the hospital
1862-05-20, Richmond Dispatch; little boy hurt by falling from wall at St. John’s Churchyard

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