William Emory Edwards, Class of 1862 (A. B.) and 1883 (D.D.)

William Emory Edwards, younger brother to Leroy Summerfield Edwards (class of 1859) and middle son of prominent Methodist minister John Ellis Edwards, received a commission as chaplain in the Confederate army in the summer of 1863 and served as post chaplain from July 1863-1865 at Fort Darling at Drewry's Bluff, VA. After the war, he served as a minister in a several Virginia churches until he became Professor of Moral Philosophy (religious studies) at R-MC in 1899, where he remained until his death in 1903. His reminiscence of the college from 1860-1862 was published in Richard Irby's History of Randolph-Macon College. Several of the letters in the Leroy S. Edwards collection are to his brother "Will" or "Willie," and other letters ask of news about him.