Samuel Summerfield Lambeth, student 1856-1857

Lambeth served briefly as a chaplain in the 10th VA Infantry in the summer and fall of 1861 before returning to civilian life.

He spent the remainder of the war years as a Methodist minister first in Lexington, VA  and then in Cumberland County, VA. Reverend Lambeth served the Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church with distinction until his retirement in 1905. He died August 28, 1928 and is buried in Longwood Cemetery in Bedford, VA.  His personal papers were recently donated to Randolph-Macon College by family descendants and are being sorted and inventoried.

Presley Lewellyn Hinton, Jr., student 1858-1859

Hinton enlisted as a private in Co. A of the 3rd VA Cavalry on May 14, 1861. In the summer of 1862 he was appointed a hospital steward, as he had attended medical school at the University of Virginia in 1860 and 1861 after leaving Randolph-Macon. In 1863, he was serving as a hospital steward in Atlanta, Georgia. By the summer of 1864, he was serving at the Blind School Hospital in Macon, GA. No further war record has been found.

Henry Clay Brock, student 1861-1862

Brock enlisted as a private in Co. H of the 9th VA Cavalry on May 1, 1864. He was wounded in the left knee at Reams' Station, VA on August 27, 1864 and spent several months at the General Hospital at Camp Winder in Richmond.he was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps on January 7, 1865 and assigned to the surgeon in charge at Camp Winder beginning January 28, 1865..

After the war, he completed his education at the University of Virginia and became a school teacher. He eventually became a professor at Hampden-Sydney College from 1886-1918. Brock died April 30, 1928 and is buried in the Hampden-Sydney College Cemetery in Prince Edward County, VA.

Edward Harrison Estes, student 1859-1861

Estes enlisted as a private in Co. K of the 38th VA infantry on June 2, 1861. In the late summer and fall of 1861, he was at home with a fever on furlough.  He was wounded at Seven Pines, VA on May 31, 1862 and was hospitalized at Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, VA with a fever from June 3 through June 9, 1862.. In the summer and fall of 1862, he was assigned to enroll conscripts into the army. He was promoted to sergeant on August 31, 1862 and to 2nd lieutenant on December 18, 1864.

He returned home to Pittsylvania County after the war and is listed as a "trader" in the 1870 census. By 1880 he had moved to Henry County, VA where took up farming. Estes died on December 23, 1909 and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Martinsville, VA

James T. Gray, student 1859-1862

Gray enlisted in the 1st Co. of the 1st VA Howitzers Light Artillery, the Richmond Howitzers, on September 9, 1862 as a private. He was wounded at Gettysburg, PA on July 3, 1863 and taken prisoner.  Gray was sent to the POW camp at Fort McHenry in Baltimore and then to Fort Delaware, DE. He was exchanged on Nov. 1, 1864. He returned to his unit and was paroled on April 18, 1865 in Richmond, VA.

Gray became a tobacco dealer in Richmond after the war. He died October 5, 1923 and is buried in Richmond Va in Hollywood Cemetery.

Abram Strong DuPont, student 1860-1861

Dupont enlisted in Co. G of the 1st FL Infantry on April 4, 1861 as a private and served until April 6, 1862. On May 8, 1862, he joined Co. E of the 2nd FL Cavalry. On January 1, 1863 he was made bugler of the company. He was detailed as a courier for General Anderson on April 25, 1864 for an unspecified period of time. He was paroled in Tallahassee, FL on May 15, 1865.

After the war, he was a farmer in Quincy, FL and Fort Myers, FL. He died April 7, 1914 and is buried in Fort Myers Cemetery in Fort Myers, FL.

Chandler W. Hill, student 1859-1861

Hill enlisted in Co. G of the 6th VA Infantry on April 19, 1861. At some point he became sergeant, but his rank was reduced to private on October 27, 1862. He was promoted to corporal April 1, 1864. Hill was wounded at the Battle of the Crater in Petersburg, VA on July 30, 1864 and his left arm was amputated. He spent several months in military hospitals. He was returned to duty Nov. 7, 1864 as a military intelligence officer. He was paroled at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.

After the war he moved to Portsmouth, VA where his profession in the 1870 and 1880 censuses is judge of Hustings Court. He died August 14, 1896 and is buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery in Portsmouth, VA. His widow's pension application indicates he died of "intestinal indigestion."

William A. Gilmer, student 1859-1860

Gilmer enlisted as a private May 8, 1861 in Co. A of the 7th AL Infantry. On April 28, 1862 he mustered into Co. I of the 37th AL Infantry. He drowned on May 5, 1862 when he slipped off a gangway while boarding a boat in Montgomery, AL with his regiment.   A memorial tombstone was placed in Oakwood Cemetery in Montgomery, AL.

Henry "Harry" Clay Moss, student 1859-1860

Moss enlisted in Co. E of the 30th MS Infantry on April 3, 1862. He spent much of 1862 and 1863 detailed as a clerk to the Quartermaster, Ordnance and Enrolling departments in various locations in Mississippi and Alabama. He spent several months in the hospital, and on December 13, 1864 he was retired to the Invalid Corps. He was paroled as a prisoner of war on May 16, 1865 in Marion, AL.

After the war he returned home to Yazoo County, MS and became a journalist. He was editor of a Yazoo City newspaper, the Mississippi Democrat for several years. Moss died of pneumonia in 1884.

Charles Henry Dear, student 1862-1863

Dear was a student at VMI at the beginning of the war. He matriculated at Randolph-Macon in the fall of 1862, under the military curriculum patterned after VMI that was taught by a VMI graduate, James E. Blankenship. He joined Mosby's Rangers, Co. D of the 43rd VA Cavalry, in the early months of 1863.  He participated in numerous raids and was alleged to have been wounded at lest 12 times. He was paroled in Winchester, VA, on May 17, 1865.

After the war, he ran an inn in Washington, VA, and eventually went to work for the IRS. He died January 5, 1929 and is buried in Washington Cemetery in Washington, VA

William Samuel Francis, student 1850-1851

Francis enlisted as a private in Co. H of the 5th VA Cavalry on February 28, 1862. He was transferred on May 24, 1862 to "Confederate Defenders Captain Mason," Company G of the 61st VA Infantry, although he doesn't appear again in service records.

According to the R-MC Catalog of 1848, Francis attended the college's Preparatory Department located at Garysburg, NC, one of several preparatory schools in both Virginia and North Carolina affiliated with R-MC prior to the Civil War.

He was a farmer in Southampton, VA before and after the war. Francis died February 21, 1913 and is buried in Persons United Methodist Church Cemetery, Drewryville, Southampton County, VA.

William Murray Chalmers, student 1860-1861

Chalmers attended the University of North Carolina for a year after leaving R-MC and then went to Virginia Military Institute, becoming one of the famous New Market Cadets as a private in Co. C of the cadets. He later graduated from the University of Virginia and became a teacher in Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, and finally in Danville VA, where he died on June 21, 1895.

Armead Price, student 1856-1857

Price was the son of Washington Price, the largest landowner and slaveholder in Lafayette County, MS, and brother of Huldric Price. He was a student at the University of Mississippi in 1861 when he enlisted as a private on February 23, 1861 in Co. B of the 9th MS Infantry. On August 4, 1862, he joined his brother Huldric in Co. G of the 11th MS Infantry. He was wounded in the leg on September 17, 1862 at the Battle of Antietam. He recovered and returned to the regiment in November, 1862 and served until he was captured on April 2, 1865 at Petersburg, VA and sent to the prison camp at Fort Delaware, DE. He was released on June 11, 1865 after taking the oath of allegiance, the same day as his brother Huldric.

He returned to Mississippi, where he farmed until his death on January 20, 1880. Price is buried in Oxford Memorial Cemetery in Oxford, MS.

Huldric Price, student 1856-1857

Price was the son of Washington Price, the largest landowner and slaveholder in Lafayette County, MS, and brother of Armead Price. His occupation was listed as farmer when he enlisted as a private in Co. G of the 11th MS Infantry on August 4, 1862. He was captured on April 2, 1865 at Petersburg, VA and sent to the prison camp at Fort Delaware, DE. He was released on June 11, 1865 after taking the oath of allegiance.

He returned to farming at the family plantation "Oak Grove" in Lafayette County, Mississippi after the war. He died in 1903 and is buried in Oxford Memorial Cemetery in Oxford, MS.

Thomas H. Puryear, student 1862-1863

Thomas H. Puryear was a teacher when he enlisted as a corporal in Co. C of the 21st VA Infantry on June 20, 1861.  He had been wounded slightly near Winchester, VA on March 23, 1862, and sent to the hospital in Staunton, VA. He was discharged for disability on August 6, 1862.

Puryear, a native of Mecklenburg County, attended R-MC immediately after his discharge in the fall of 1862.  It is unknown how he spent the rest of the war years after the college closed in February, 1863. He moved to Clarksville, TN and then to Paducah, KY, where he became a prosperous tobacco merchant, and was also involved in banking and railroads. Puryear committed suicide on March 18, 1898.

James Francis Eubank, student 1862-1863

Eubank enrolled in Randolph-Macon College in the fall of 1862 under the college's military curriculum. R-MC closed in February 1863 and Eubank enrolled at VMI for the fall of 1863, although he was dismissed from VMI in November for excessive demerits.

Prior to enrolling at R-MC, Eubank had served for a year as a private in Co. K of the 23rd VA Infantry. He had joined on May 2, 1861 at the age of 16. Eubank had been taken prisoner at the Battle of Kernstown, near Winchester, VA on March 23, 1862 and sent to the POW camp at Fort Delaware, MD. He was exchanged on August 5, 1862 but did not return to his regiment and was later reported as AWOL during the time he attended college at R-MC and VMI. He enlisted on January 20, 1864 as a private in Co.G of the 9th VA Cavalry. On his 1910 pension application, he indicates that he had been slightly wounded twice, at White Oak Swamp and at Stoney Cree, and that he was paroled at Appomattox Court House.

After the war, he returned home to Lunenburg County, VA and farmed. In his pension application, he states he is totally disabled due to kidney disease and rheumatism, and that his home has burned. He died Dec. 19, 1915.

Milton Cobb Richardson, student 1859-1860

Richardson and his two older brothers, Joseph Clement Richardson and Edward Lunsford Richardson, attended R-MC together in 1859-1860. Milton joined Co. I of the 3rd NC Cavalry with his brother Edward at the age of 17 in early 1862. A substitute, William R. Pool, was provided for him in July 1862, and Richardson's service was over.

Milton completed his education during the war, graduating from the University of North Carolina in 1865. By 1870, he was practicing law in Clinton, NC, and living in a hotel. He married the hotel-keeper's daughter and continued as an attorney through at least 1900.

Edward Lunsford Richardson, student 1859-1860

Richardson and his two brothers, Joseph Clement Richardson and Milton Cobb Richardson, attended R-MC together in 1859-1860. Edward and Milton then enrolled in the University of North Carolina in 1860. Edward joined Co. I of the 3rd NC Cavalry, the "Wake Rangers," on February 12, 1862 as a private. He transferred into Co. C of the NC 53rd Infantry, the regiment in which his older brother Joseph was serving, on September 19, 1863. He died at the age of 21 from measles on February 4, 1864 at a hospital in Danville, VA. Records indicate he had "no effects" to be sent home.

Joseph Clement Richardson, student 1859-1860

Richardson and his two younger brothers, Edward Lunsford Richardson and Milton Cobb Richardson, attended R-MC together in 1859-1860. He enlisted as a lieutenant on April 30, 1862 in Co. C of the 53rd NC Infantry. He was promoted to captain on April 17, 1863. He was wounded in the left side on May 2, 1865 at Petersburg and evacuated to the hospital at Danville, VA by May 5, 1865.

He recovered from his wound and returned home to Johnston County, NC, where he resumed his life as a fairly wealthy farmer, living with his father, Pharaoh Richardson until the father's death in 1870. The family home had been used by Confederate General Joe Johnston as his headquarters in late March and early April 1865. Joseph never married, and by 1910 was residing in the Confederate Soldier's Home in Raleigh, NC. Richardson died on January 6, 1911 and is buried in Raleigh's Oakwood Cemetery.

Charles W. Powell, student 1851-52

Charles W. Powell was a surveyor in Warren County, MS, prior to joining Co. G of the 1st Mississippi Light Artillery as a private on April 26, 1862. He died of typhoid fever on September 21, 1862. Tragically, only months before in March and April of 1862, two of his young sons had also died, leaving only his wife and one son.

Manville A. Flippen, student 1851-52

Flippen served as a private in Co. G of the 3rd VA Cavalry, the Cumberland Light Dragoons. His date of enlistment is unknown and there is some thought that he may have served in other units, due to variations of his name in census records (Manville A., Menville A., Maurice Menville A.). He was captured on March 17, 1865 in King William County, VA and sent to the POW camp at Point Lookout, MD, where he was paroled on June 4, 1865. He is listed on a roll of sick prisoners of war having taken the oath of allegiance.

After the war, Flippen returned to Cumberland County, VA, where he is listed as a retired merchant in the 1880 census and as a farmer in later censuses; he is missing from the 1870 census. He died  November 12, 1917 and is buried at the Mill View Cemetery in Cumberland County (Mill View was his wife's family, the Hobsons, home). Visitors to the cemetery in 1997 recorded his grave as Menville A. Flippen, with Co. G, Va. Cav., CSA inscribed upon it.

Richmond E. Nolley, student 1866-1867

Nolley, the son of a Methodist minister in Ashland, VA, attended R-MC after the war. he enlisted in Co. A of the 20th VA Heavy Artillery Battalion as a private on September 26, 1863 at the age of 17. He was taken prisoner at Farmville, VA on April 6, 1865 and sent to the POW camp at Point Lookout, MD, where he was released June 15, 1865 after taking the oath of allegiance.

He attended R-MC for a year after the war. He is listed as a bookkeeper in the Richmond, VA, area in the 1880 and 1910 censuses. By 1920, he was working as a cashier in Atlanta, GA. Nolley died in 1932.

Samuel B. Nottingham, student 1858-1860

Nottingham enlisted as a private in Co. B of the 19th VA Battalion Heavy Artillery on September 18, 1862. He had been promoted to sergeant sometime before April 1864. He was captured on May 6, 1865 at Burke's Farm near Farmville, VA and sent to the POW camp at Point Lookout, MD. He remained there until he took the oath of allegiance on June 15, 1865.

He returned home to Northampton County on Virginia's Eastern Shore after the war. Nottingham died on April 7, 1866 and is buried in Lebanon Cemetery in Northampton County, VA

Weldon Edwards Davis, student 1858-1859

Davis enlisted August 16, 1861 as 3rd lieutenant in Co. B of the 30th NC Infantry. He was promoted to 2nd lieutenant on on Sep. 26, 1861 and to 1st lieutenant on May 1, 1862. On June 13, 1863, Davis was promoted to captain. He was wounded in the right leg at Kelly's Ford, VA on November 7, 1863 and taken prisoner. Davis was admitted two days later to Douglas Hospital in Washington, DC, where records indicate his leg was fractured and gangrene had set in.  The leg was amputated on November 10, and Davis died on November 22, 1863.  He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Giles William Bruce Hale, student 1858-1860

Hale enlisted as a captain in Co. D of the 2nd VA Cavalry on May 20, 1861, a company he organized and outfitted.  The regimental history indicates he was discharged in the spring of 1862 when he was not re-elected as captain, while other sources indicate he left due to a medical discharge, as yet unverified.  He joined the staff of General Jubal Early sometime before the Battle of Malvern Hill on July 1, 1862.

After the war, Hale returned to home to Franklin County, VA, were he became a successful businessman and mayor of the town of Rocky Mount. He died on September 8, 1933 and is buried in High Street Cemetery in Rocky Mount, VA.

Austin M. Maclin, student 1858-1861

Maclin enlisted as a private on May 4, 1861 in the Greenesville Guard, the 5th Battalion, VA Infantry. His papers indicate he was a student, was 5'11" tall, and had blues eyes, light colored hair, and a "bright" complexion. He was discharged in May, 1862 due to illness.  He enlisted in Co. H of the 13th VA Cavalry in the fall of 1862.  He was discharged a second time for disability due to tuberculosis in January,1863. He had been hospitalized for much of the fall of 1862.

He returned home to Greensville County, Virginia after the war and is listed as a farmer in the 1870 and 1880 censuses, when he disappears from the record.  He never married.

Richard H. Beale, Class of 1847

Beale (spelled variantly as Beal) taught school in Franklin, TN after graduating from R-MC.  By 1860,  he is listed in the census as a furniture dealer. He mustered into Co.K of the 19th TX Cavalry on April 10, 1862 as lieutenant and served until the war's end.  He was paroled on June 12, 1865 in Shreveport, LA, with his home still listed as Franklin, TN.

By 1870, he had moved to Sulphur Springs, Texas and was a Justice of the Peace. In 1880, he is listed as an "officer" in the census. Beale died in 1910 and is buried in Sulphur Springs City Cemetery.

Norman W. Beale, student 1856-1857

Norman W. Beale enlisted as a private on May 7, 1861 in Co. H of the 5th VA Cavalry. He was promoted to sergeant on May 22, 1862 and transferred to Co. A of the 13th VA Cavalry. He died in Williamsport, MD on July 8, 1863 of pneumonia and is buried in the Beale Cemetery in Hansom, Virginia in Southampton County. The cemetery is located near the intersection of Virginia State Routes 671 and 680, about halfway between Emporia and Newsoms, VA.

James Newton Beale, student 1859-1860

Beale, a teacher, enlisted as a private in Co. C of the 13th VA Infantry on April 20, 1861. He was wounded in the arm on May 30, 1864 during the Battle of Bethesda Church in Hanover County, VA and was sent to Jackson Hospital and then Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, VA. Although he recovered from that wound, Beale died on March 25, 1865 in the final Confederate offensive during the Siege of Petersburg, the Battle of Fort Stedman. He is buried in Maplewood Cemetery in Gordonsville, VA

Oswald Bailey Mears, student 1860-1861

Mears enlisted in the 5th VA Cavalry, Co. A as a private on August 31, 1861. On March 27, 1862, he transferred to the 15th VA Cavalry, Co. C.  He was paroled on April 21, 1865.

Mears became an educator after the war, and by 1900 he was serving as Superintendent of Schools in Princess Anne County, VA. He died in 1921 and is buried in Norfolk, VA in Elmwood Cemetery.

Larkin Hardy Crenshaw, student 1853-1854

Crenshaw, a Methodist minister, joined Virginia's  Burk's Local Defense Infantry as a private, probably in 1863 when the unit was formed.

Crenshaw continued his career as a minister after the war. He died on September 22, 1902 and is buried in Union Cemetery in Leesburg, VA.