Edwin Langborne Taliaferro

He was modern language professor at the College of William & Mary at the start of the war, and enrolled by August 1861 as Lieutenant and Adjutant of the 32nd Virginia Infantry (Colonel Benjamin S Ewell, late President of William & Mary). By March 1862 he was First Lieutenant and Ordnance Officer, CSA at the Williamsburg, VA Arsenal. He was promoted to Captain and Ordnance Officer on 18 July 1862 and assigned to Major General McLaws' staff about 1 September.

He was an Ordnance Officer on the Maryland Campaign on General McLaws' staff.

He was with McLaws to 11 September 1863, then served at the arsenal in Macon, GA until he a captured there on 20 or 21 April 1865. He had been promoted to Major of Artillery and Ordnance Officer, CSA on 10 (or 20) January 1864.

He went back to teaching at William & Mary, but died young, just 32 years old, in 1867.

His service from Staff Officers in Gray 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, also as Edwin or just E. Tallaferro. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Francis Bland Beverly "Fannie" Tucker (1843-1913) in 1861; they had no children.

Brother of Major General William Booth Taliaferro, CSA, and nephew of of Andrew Seddon, Confederate Secretary of State.

04/15/1835; Ware Neck, VA

09/01/1867; Ware Neck, VA; burial in Ware Episcopal Church Cemetery, Gloucester, VA