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(1836 - 1883)
Home State: Virginia
Education: Emory & Henry College
Branch of Service: Staff
Unit: Garland's Brigade
Before Sharpsburg
A lawyer and professor of languages at Roanoke College before the War, he was commissioned Lieutenant, Company G, 2nd Virginia Cavalry 28 May 1861. He was not reelected, and was discharged 25 April 1862. He was then appointed Lieutenant and aide-de-camp to General Garland on 25 May 1862. He was wounded in action at Seven Pines, VA on 15 June 1862, and lost the sight of his right eye. He was promoted to Captain on 18 June.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862 and captured at Sharpsburg.
The rest of the War
He transferred as Assistant Adjutant General to General Iverson in November 1862, was in action at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, then went to R.D. Johnson’s staff in September 1863. He was again wounded, in action at Spotsylvania Court House, VA. He was captured at Waynesboro, VA on 2 March 1865, was held at Fort Delaware, then exchanged.
After the War
He was a lawyer in Lynchburg and Richmond, VA.
References & notes
Service from Krick.1
Birth
09/15/1836; Lynchburg, VA
Death
01/01/1883; Nelson County, VA; burial in Spring Hill Cemetery, Lynchburg, VA
1 Krick, Robert E.L., Staff Officers in Gray; A Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of Northern Virginia, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003, pg. 146 [AotW citation 17550]