Henry Wyatt Wingfield, Class of 1851 (A.B.) and 1855 (A.M.)

Wingfield was a schoolteacher in Hanover County, VA when he enlisted as a private in Co. H of the 58th VA Infantry on September 5, 1861. He was promoted to 2nd lieutenant on October 15, 1861 and to captain on May 1, 1862. He was wounded at Fredericksburg, VA on May 4, 1863, hospitalized in Richmond, and returned to duty on June 23, 1863. For parts of 1862, 1863 and 1864 he is listed as commanding the regiment. Wingfield was taken prisoner at Winchester, VA on September 19, 1864 and sent from Harper's Ferry, WV to the prison camp at Fort Delaware on September 24, 1864. He was released on June 17, 1865 after taking the oath of allegiance. After the war, he returned to Hanover County, VA and operated a school in Ashland, taught briefly at R-MC and was county surveyor. Wingfield died on August 11, 1902 and is buried in the cemetery at Marl Ridge, the Wingfield family home on route 54 in Hanover County, VA.