The War Department "Register of Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Who Died in Federal Prisons and Military Hospitals in the North" (U. S. War Department, Washington, DC, 1912) does not list anyone named "Chappel Reynolds" as having died in any Federal POW camp. Nor did I subsequently find Wiley C. REYNOLDS listed as having died.

I checked Randolph W. Kirkland's "Dark Hours: South Carolina Soldiers, Sailors, and Citizens Who Were Held in Federal Prisons During the War for Southern Independence, 1861-1865" (South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston, 2002). Kirkland lists a 3rd Lieutenant Wiley C. REYNOLDS of Company H, 8th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry who was captured at Greencastle, Pennsylvania on July 5, 1863 during the retreat from Gettysburg. He was sent to Fort Delaware and transferred to the officer's prison on Johnson's Island in Lake Erie near Sandusky, Ohio on July 18, 1863. He was then transferred to Point Lookout on March 14, 1864 and returned to Confederate hands from Point Lookout. Kirkland cites the CMSR for Wiley C. REYNOLDS as the source of much of this information.

Based upon my own research into the return flow of Confederate POWs from the Federal POW camps, if WCR died after his return to Confederate authorities, it is possible that he was buried in Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg or in either Hollywood or Oakwood Cemeteries in Richmond.

Hugh Simmons
Fort Delaware Society