Pvt. Solomon Crist died of dysentery in Richmond’s General Hospital No. 21

Pvt. Solomon Crist died of dysentery in Richmond’s General Hospital No. 21

Solomon Crist

Private Solomon Crist, age 43, lasted about a month in the open-air prison on Belle Isle before being hospitalized for dysentery. He died in Richmond’s Hospital No. 21 on September 20, 1864. The hospital was on the northwest corner of 25th Street and Cary Street. Crist was probably buried nearby in Richmond’s Oakwood Cemetery, and after the War, transferred to an unknown’s grave in the Richmond National Cemetery. Forty-five years later, in 1909, when the residents of Pavia, Pennsylvania, chartered a memorial to those who died or were missing from Company K, 55th Pennsylvania, Solomon Crist was still listed as missing. His family and friends never knew what happened to him. The part of the Adjutant General’s Office that tracked deaths of volunteers recorded what happened to Solomon, but the news never reached Bedford County.

U.S. Adjutant General's Office.

U.S., Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865.

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1864-09-20

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Confederate General Hospital No. 21, 25th and Cary Streets, Richmond, VA

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