William H Overbee

 

Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, 20 February 1862, page 3

NEWPORT NEWS


DEATH OF A PRISONER-The Secession prisoners confined in the Newport Barracks are dropping off one by one.  Yesterday one of them named William H Overbee, who belonged to Marshall's forces, died of typhus fever.

His funeral will take place tomorrow.  This is the third or fourth death that has occurred among the prisoners lately.

 

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