From the Richmond Dispatch, 10/20/1862, p. 1, c. 5

Fatal Accident. – Yesterday, about half-past 2 o'clock, a soldier named Charles Cluts, belonging to the 7th North Carolina, fell from one of the rear windows of the barrack on Franklin street, and striking (after a descent of 20 feet) on a door which was open below lodged on it, and was taken off quite dead having no doubt broken his back, besides sustaining other injuries.

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