David Seth Doggett, Jr. joined the VA 1st Co. Howitzers Light Artillery as a private on April 19, 1861. Doggett was discharged from the company on March 7, 1862.
He was the son of a prominent Virginia Methodist minister, David Seth Doggett, who had been a professor at the college from 1840-1846 and postwar in 1866 was both elected Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and was again appointed to a professorship at Randolph-Macon College. He was living in San Frnaciso, California in 1876 and 1878 but had returned to Richmond by 1880, where he resided with his paerents and was listed as unemployed for the previous 12 months in the census. Doggett, Jr. died March 16, 1893 and is buried in the family plot in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery.
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