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Caption: Belle Isle Cemetery
Additional Description: Prisoners who died on Belle Isle were buried in the little cemetery [at the] northeastern end of the island. Surviving prisoners often stole the [wooden] headboards from the graves for use as firewood. At the end of the war, Union agents disinterred the bodies that could be found and removed them to the newly established Richmond National Cemetery on the Williamsburg Road, just east of the city. The man inspecting the grave is photographer John Reekie.
Submitted: January 18, 2010, by Bernard Fisher of Richmond, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p93217
File Size: 0.234 Megabytes

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