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(1830 - 1863)
Home State: Virginia
Education: Virginia Military Institute, Class of 1851
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 3rd Virginia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A graduate of the Virginia Military Academy, in 1860 he was a prosperous 31 year old farmer and teacher at Smithfield in Isle of Wight County. He enrolled on 23 June 1861 in Smithfield as Captain of the James River Artillery, which became Company I of the 3rd Virginia Infantry when he mustered for Confederate service as their Captain on 8 July. He was promoted to Major of the Regiment in the reorganization on 27 April 1862 and to Lieutenant Colonel in August.
On the Campaign
He had command of the Regiment for some part of the day after Colonel Mayo was wounded on 17 September. He was in turn succeeded by Capt Urquhart.
The rest of the War
Lieutenant Colonel Callcote was killed in action at Gettysburg while in command of the Regiment - probably after Colonel Mayo was wounded. He was buried on the field.
After the War
He was removed to an unmarked grave in the Gettysburg Dead section of Hollywood Cemetery in 1872.
References & notes
His service from Wallace,1 Walker,2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3, with details also from the VMI Archives. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Harriet J Lamb (1833-1860) in 1854 and they had a daughter Martha. He married again, Mary Eliza Cofer (1839-1867) in January 1862.
Birth
06/15/1830; Isle of Wight County, VA
Death
7/3/1863; Gettysburg, PA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
1 Wallace, Lee A., 3rd Virginia Infantry, Lynchburg (Va): H. E. Howard. Inc., 1986 [AotW citation 248]
2 Walker, Charles D., Biographical Sketches of the Graduates and Eleves of the Virginia Military Institute Who Fell During the War Between the States, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1875 [AotW citation 1139]
3 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 29829]