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"Dave"
(1837 - 1862)
Home State: Virginia
Education: University of Virginia, Class of 1861
Branch of Service: Artillery
Unit: Jackson (VA) Artillery
Before Sharpsburg
Son of wealthy lawyer David Walker Barton, in the Summer of 1860 he was 22 years old and lived with his parents and 4 younger siblings in Winchester, VA. He was a student at the University of Virginia 1856-58 and 1859-61. Just before graduating he enlisted with other students as a Private in Captain Hutter's Company, Virginia Infantry - the Southern Guard - on 17 April 1861 at Charlottesville and had duty at Harpers Ferry. He enlisted again, at Camp Stephens near Martinsburg, VA as a Private in the Rockbridge Artillery on 27 June 1861.
On 19 August 1862 he transferred to the Jackson Artillery as 2nd Lieutenant to fill a vacancy caused by the death from wounds of his brother 1st Lt. Charles Marshall Barton (b. 1835) in May.
On the Campaign
He commanded the battery on the Maryland Campaign.
The rest of the War
His battery was disbanded and he and his men were transferred to Captain Carter's Alleghany Artillery on 23 September. He was killed in action at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December 1862. He was buried there by his brother 2nd Lt. W. Strother Barton (2nd Virginia Infantry, 1838-1868), but could not later be found for internment at home.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, notably David Kolb Cassel in The Family Record of David Rittenhouse ... (1897), and from his bio sketch in the Memorial 2 (pointer from Jean L. Cooper on her blog Students of the University of Virginia, 1825-1874), and the US Census of 1860. His nickname from the diary of UVA classmate and fellow Hutter's Company soldier, later Ordnance Captain, James M. Garnett, in the SHSP.3 His memorial is on Findagrave.
He was one of 6 brothers with Confederate war service; 3 of them survived it.
Birth
09/27/1837; Winchester, VA
Death
12/13/1862; Fredericksburg, VA
1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 30438]
2 Johnson, John Liscomb, The University Memorial: Biographical Sketches of Alumni of the University of Virginia who fell in the Confederate War, Baltimore: Turnbull Brothers, 1871, pp. 289-293 [AotW citation 30441]
3 Southern Historical Society, and Rev. John William Jones, Robert Alonzo Brock, James Power Smith, editors, Southern Historical Society Papers, 52 Vols., Richmond: Southern Historical Society, 1876-1959, Vol. 28, p. 62 [AotW citation 30442]