Landon Brame Edwards, youngest son of prominent Methodist minister and college trustee John Ellis Edwards as well as borther to Leroy Summerfield Edwards and William Emory Edwards, enlisted at the age of 18 in the VA Southside Heavy Artillery at Drewry's Bluff, VA, on September 20, 1863 as a private. His older brother William was serving as the post chaplain. Edwards was diagnosed with heart disease in 1864 and spent November 1864-March 1865 in Richmond attending Richmond Medical College. He was discharged for disability due to his heart disease on March 18, 1865, just two weeks before he left Richmond with his oldest brother Leroy to join the fleeing Confederate army on April 1, 1865.
After the war, he attended medial school at New York University, where he received is M.D. in 1867. Dr. Edwards became editor of the Virginia Medical Monthly and secretary of the Medical Society of Virginia, of which he was a founding member. He died in 1910, and is buried with his parents and brothers in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, VA.
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