ANTHONY M. KEILEY attended R-MC in the 1840s or 1850s, possibly the preparatory department or law school rather than the college; the official records of his attendance do not survive. Keiley, a newspaper editor in Petersburg, had enlisted in the Petersburg Rifles (12th Virginia Infantry, Company E) at the start of the war. He resigned in 1863 after being elected to the Virginia legislature, but later joined the reserves during the Siege of Petersburg, where he was captured. He was a prisoner of war at Point Lookout, MD and Elmira, NY from June-October, 1864.
Keiley published an important work on his imprisonment after the war. To read it and for more information on his later career, go to Personal Accounts of the Civil War by R-MC Alumni
