William Henry Chapman

Raised in Luray, VA, he was a student at the University of Virginia at the start of the war. He helped organized and was appointed First Lieutenant of the new Dixie Artillery in Luray on 21 June 1861, and was promoted to Captain upon Captain Booton's resignation in October 1861.

He commanded the battery on the Campaign.

His battery was disbanded on 4 October 1862, and he was transferred to be the enrolling officer for Page County, VA. He then enrolled in J.S. Mosby's 43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry, became Captain of Company C, and was later promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of the unit.

He had a long career as an agent of the US Internal Revenue at Greensboro, NC from about 1872 to at least 1916.

Military service details from Moore1, with the photograph from his GeoCities website [gone in 2009]. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

04/17/1840; Luray, VA

09/06/1920; Greensboro, NC; burial in Bloomfield Cemetery, Bloomfield, MO