Accidents on Confederate Railroads -- 1865

Below are the accidents I have been able to identify. I'm sure there were many more that I will uncover and add to the list and also that the vast majority of accidents will never be uncovered.
 
1865
Date Railroad(s) Source Report
1/2 Macon & Brunswick Augusta Constitutionalist 1/6

NP, AC 1-6-65

1/2 Montgomery & West Point Augusta Constitutionalist 1/7

NP, AC 1-7B-65

1/6 Alabama & Tennessee River Letter

UA, SIW 1-7-65

1/26 Georgia Raleigh Confederate 2/1

NP, RCF 2-1-65

1/26 North Carolina Carolina Observer 2/6

NP, CO 2-6A-65

1/27 Piedmont Richmond Dispatch 2/2

NP, RD 2-2A-65

2/4 South Carolina Augusta Constitutionalist 2/7

NP, AC 2-7-65

2/4 Central (of Georgia) Augusta Constitutionalist 2/10

NP, AC 2-10A-65

2/6 Piedmont Lynchburg Virginian 2/8

NP, LV 2-8-65

2/21 Central (of Georgia) Augusta Constitutionalist 2/24

NP, AC 2-24-65

2/22 Galveston, Houston & Henderson Houston Telegraph 2/24

NP, HT 2-24-65

3/7 Virginia & Tennessee Annual Report John O'Brien, while the passenger train was being made up in the Lynchburg yard, attempted to get upon it as it passed him; he was run over and his leg was badly crushed.
Lynchburg Virginian 3/8

NP, LV 3-8-65

3/9 Unknown Richmond Dispatch 3/10

NP, RD 3-10-65

3/10 Georgia Augusta Constitutionalist 3/12

NP, AC 3-12-65

3/18 Central (of Georgia) Augusta Constitutionalist 3/24

NP, AC 3-24-65

3/22 Georgia Augusta Constitutionalist 3/23

NP, AC 3-23-65

3/26 Georgia Augusta Constitutionalist 3/28

NP, AC 3-28-65

3/29 Virginia & Tennessee Annual Report
Material train, J. W. Gills, conductor, Peyton Burkett, engineman, engine Reindeer, while returning from Evergreen, on the South Side Railroad, with a train of lumber, broke through a bridge near Concord; J. W. Gills, conductor, had thigh broken and knee cut -- recovered. Peyton Burkett, engineman, injured internally -- died. J. W. Holleran, carpenter, injured -- recovered. Thos. Majors, train hand, injured slightly -- recovered. Henry Gills, train Hand, injured internally -- died. The engine was badly injured, and two box freight and four platform cars demolished.
4/5 Richmond & Danville Raleigh Confederate 4/6

NP, RCF 4-6-65

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