From the Richmond Dispatch, 7/19/1866, p. 1, c. 5
DEATH OF DR. CARRINGTON. – We regret to announce that Dr. W. A. Carrington, formerly Medical Director of all the hospitals in Virginia, died on Tuesday evening at 2 o’clock, at the residence of his father-in-law in Charlotte county. Dr. Carrington was a man of considerable professional ability as well as of great personal purity of character, and his death will be deeply felt and regretted in this community.