| From the Charleston Mercury |
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| February 12, 1862 |
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| Killed By Falling From the Cars |
| The Richmond Examiner says: On Saturday
night, as the burden train was on the point of leaving Gordonsville
for Richmond {on the Virginia Central RR},
a number of soldiers, who had been detained by the non-arrival of the
cars from Manassas Junction in time to make connection with the train
for this city, crowded themselves upon the tops of the burden cars,
and some of them being very much intoxicated, one soldier, from the
Sixth South Carolina Regiment, was pushed off, and falling on his
head, was instantly killed. Another was, it is feared, mortally
injured by a fall from the same car, and still another quite badly
hurt. The body of the dead man was boxed up and taken on to his
friends. The injured men were cared for by attendant surgeons, and
brought on in yesterday's train. |
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