From Wikipedia.
Yesterday, I wrote about the general's newly-conserved display now being on display at the Cape Fear Museum in Wilmington, NC.
The wounded W.H.C. Whiting was taken prisoner after the fall of Fort Fisher Jan. 15, 1865. Weaken by his years of service and the wound, he died of dysentery at the Union military hospital at Fort Columbus on Governor's Island in New York City on March 10, 1865.
Another one of his brothers, Jasper, died in Confederate service.
He was buried at New York's Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, where his brother Robert was in charge. In 1900, his widow, Kate, had the body exhumed and moved to Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington.
This ties in nicely with one of my next posts Monday.
The General's Coat. --Old B-R'er
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