From the Richmond Dispatch, 9/24/1862
Death in Castle Thunder. – A soldier, named E. L. Johnson, died in
this prison yesterday of mumps. His company and regiment are not known. Johnson
was taken up in Lynchburg on the 8th of September, by the Provost
Marshal of that city, Lieut. Turner, and sent to Richmond as a supposed
deserter. His remains were interred yesterday in Oakwood Cemetery.
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