Lee and His Generals-- Part 3: William Henry Chase Whiting

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

The Bodies of John Yates Beall and W.H.C. Whiting

John Yates Beall's body was taken from Fort Columbus and originally interred in New York's Green-Wood Cemetery.

On March 22, 1870, the body was reinterred at Zion Episcopal Cemetery in Charles Town, West Virginia.

After the death of Confederate General W,H.C. Whiting, also at Fort Columbus, his body was also buried at New York's Green-Wood Cemetery.  His widow Kate Whiting had his body exhumed in 1900 and moved to Wilmington, North Carolina's Oakdale Cemetery.

Whiting is the highest ranking Confederate prisoner to die while in northern prison.  Of course, he was also a big player at Fort Fisher.

--Old Secesh

Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery and Alsace Cemetery, Pennsylvania

BROOKLYN'S GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY

Approximately 8,000 Civil War veterans are buried there.  The Saturday before May 27, 2011, flags were placed on all 4,500 Civil War veterans buried there, including the graves of 75 Confederates (hopefully it was the Confederate flag).

The first Civil War casualty interred was 12-year-old Clarence McKenzie killed in an accidental shooting in Maryland in 1861.  About 200 burials in the cemetery were deaths that occurred in the war.  Thosands more died later.

Volunteers and staff have spent decades identifying the Civil War graves and so far have a list of some 4,600.


ALSACE CEMETERY

From the May 27, 2011, Reading (Pa) Eagle.

The Bechtel family plot in the Muklenberg Township cemetery has one grave of a soldier who died at Antietam and another lost a leg at Gettysburg.  They fought on two different sides.  Richard for the Confederacy and his father Samuel may have fought for that side. 

Another soldier, John Keller, enlisted at age 15 and later died at Andersonville. 

Sixty-eight Civil War soldiers are buried at the cemetery

Berk County raised 87 companies of troops and 85 companies.

It's a Burying Thing.  --Old Secesh