He was at Fort Fisher when it was captured by Union forces on January 15, 1865, and wounded. Taken to Fort Columbus on Governor's Island in New York Harbor as a prisoner, he was recovering from the wound when he contracted dysentery and died March 10, 1865, becoming the highest ranking Confederate officer to die in a Union prison.
He was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in New York City, but his widow Kate had the body exhumed in 1900 and sent to Wilmington, North Carolina's Oakdale Cemetery.
One of W.H.C's brothers was Major Jasper Strong Whiting who died of scarlet fever December 25, 1862.
Another brother was Robert Edward Kerr Whiting was later in charge of Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.
--Old Secesh
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