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

Written Accounts

1895-03-07, Richmond Times; short obituary for John N. Van Lew, brother of Elizabeth Van Lew, who died 3/5/1895 in Philadelphia. Notes that he was a Union man during the war and had a job in the post office when his sister was postmaster
1895-03-09, Richmond Dispatch; funeral of John N. Van Lew took place yesterday at the Van Lew House on Church Hill
1895-06-13, National Tribune; refutation of the claim that prisoners at Belle Isle were "jolly fellows;" good details of the harsh treatment, and attempts to escape
1895-10-23, New York Herald; death notice of T. C. Roche
1895-10-24, New York Herald; death notice of T. C. Roche – updated funeral information
1895, Hartford Courant; Maj. A. J. Hamilton, one of the ringleaders of the Libby Prison tunnel escape, has been murdered by one of his drinking buddies.
1895, New England Magazine; good description of life in Prison No. 1 (Ligon's Prison) during 1861. Comments on Henry Wirz as an employee there.
1896-01-04, Richmond Planet; interesting description of the controversy surrounding the burial of “an old black mammy” in a white family’s plot in Shockoe Cemetery
1896-02-04, Richmond Dispatch; obituary for Dr. T. L. Ingram, who had been a surgeon at Libby Prison, Belle Isle, and the South Carolina Hospital
1896-06-30, Richmond Times; account of the Robertson Hospital and Sally Tompkins

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