Good afternoon and thank you for putting together the Oakwood Cemetery records project. I am pretty sure my 3-great uncle John Beddingfield would be buried there.
He died of disease at Chimborazo Hospital on August 2, 1862. He was in the NC Infantry Regiment Company E. Any info would be appreciated. I know you are busy and don’t expect you to drop what you are doing. I have been trying to locate all of my dead confederate relatives and I have been fortunate to find most of them. Hollywood, Gordonsville, Petersburg, Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh, etc. Thank you and please let me know if there is any way I can help. I am living in Charlottesville and would be happy to volunteer some time to help!
Chuck Beddingfield
3 comments:
I looked at the register of Confederate burials for Oakwood and I did not see any Beddingfields. John’s last name could have been spelled wrong but nothing jumped out at me. It is true that the dead from Chimborazo Hospital were reportedly buried at Oakwood Cemetery. However, I can tell you that my great-great-great-grandfather, Cicero A. Coleman, died at Chimborazo on August 4, 1864 and I cannot find him at Oakwood either.
Chuck wrote back to me:
"Thank you for your response. Would this mean that there are no records anywhere that could lead me to an answer? Are there Chimborazo Hospital Records at the Library of VA or Richmond Library? I am just trying to determine if I should cease my search. Thank you so much for helping me with this…….CB"
There are some incomplete records for the hospital at the Library of Virginia but they only cover from 1863. Oakwood Cemetery kept pretty good records of burials but, as stated before, I did not notice one for your relative. There are lots of unknown burials so it possible for him to still be there.
You may want to try to find a history for the unit that he was in. It might include the fate of its men. There is a good series of books in Virginia, the Regimental History Series, but I do not know what exists for North Carolina. You may want to also see if his wife filed for a pension during the late 1800s to early 1900s. That might give you some more insight.
You also need to find out the exact Infantry number he served in as you did not mention that before, only the company. I think he was from the 14th, Company E and then transferred to the 46th, Company A. If that is the case, he was probably injured at "The Crater" on July 30, 1864, during the Petersburg campaign.
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