NP, RR 2/15D/1862

From the Raleigh Register
 
February 15, 1862
 
Horrible Railroad Accident
Lynchburg, Feb. 10
   Dr. Wiley C. Bee {Beckwith}, of Company D, 1st Arkansas regiment, was killed at the Tennessee Depot {of the Virginia & Tennessee RR} this evening, in attempting to get on the cars after they had started. He was horribly mangled, and died in a few minutes. He had re-enlisted for the war, and was on his return home on furlough to his residence in Jefferson county, Ark.

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