Benjamin Franklin Jarratt, student 1856-1861

Jarratt enlisted as a sergeant on May 24, 1861 in Co. A of the 41st VA Infantry. He was promoted to lieutenant on May 1, 1862. He was wounded in the leg at the Battle of Second Manassas on August 30, 1862 . He was detached for light duty in January 1863 to enroll conscripts in Sussex County, VA. Jarratt was promoted to captain on September 15, 1864. He was found not guilty in January 1865 during court-martial proceedings of a charge of being drunk on duty, and served until he surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.

Jarratt lived in Belfield in Greensville County,VA after the war where the censuses record him as a farmer. He died August 1, 1913 and is buried in the Jarratt family cemetery in Sussex County, VA.

Charles Henry Tarry (Terry), student 1856-1857

Tarry was a plantation overseer, probably for his father's holdings, in Dallas County, AL in the 1860 census.  He enlisted in Co. K of the 15th Alabama Infantry in March 1862. He died of measles in Richmond, VA on July 6, 1862 and is buried in the Confederate section of Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery under the variant spelling of his last name as Terry. No official records of his service survive.

Samuel G. Talbott, student 1861-1862

Talbott, cousin to Allan and Charles Talbott, enlisted as a private in Co. A of the 13th VA Battalion Light Artillery on March 22, 1862. He was  hospitalized in May 1864 at Chimborazo in Richmond, VA for "morbi cutis," or a skin disease. He was paroled in Richmond, VA on April 18, 1865.

By 1880 he was a manager in a tobacco factory in Richmond. He died November 27, 1891 and is buried in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery.

Allan Talbott, student 1859-1862

Talbott, brother of Charles H. Talbott, joined the 4th VA Battalion Local Defense Infantry on September 17, 1863, serving as lieutenant and adjutant. He was paroled in Richmond, VA on April 21, 1865.

After the war, Talbott was a mechanical engineer and machinist in Richmond, VA with the family firm as was his brother. Talbott died on June 28, 1901 and is buried in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery.

Charles H. Talbott, student 1858-1860

Talbott, brother of Allan Talbott, enlisted as a private in Co. I of the 4th VA Cavalry on May 8, 1861.  He was discharged on October 28, 1861 by order of the Secretary of War in order to assist with the family business, Talbott & Brothers, a foundry in the Shockoe Bottom area of Richmond, VA that had been founded by his father and uncle and which had been contracted by the Ordnance Dept. The foundry, which specialized in steam engines and other machinery, was taken over by the Navy in February 1862 for the remainder of the war, becoming the CS Naval Works. In September of 1863, Talbott was recommended to serve as a drillmaster, and the recommendation indicated had been serving as such for some time.

After the war, Talbott was a mechanical engineer in Richmond, VA with the family firm. He died on April 8, 1912 and is buried in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery. his gravestone states his service as 3rd VA Cavalry 1861-1865, but the military records show otherwise.

James Robert Fleming, student 1857-1860

Fleming was a medical student in 1860. An 1889 medical directory lists his degree date of 1863 as uuverified.  Evans' Confederate Military History indicates he served as an assistant surgeon in the Army of Northern Virginia with Jubal Early's division, but gives not further details.

After the war, he was a physician in Wake County, North Carolina. Fleming died on June 23, 1899 and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Dunn, NC.

John Martin Fleming, student 1853-1854

Fleming attended the University of N.C. after R-MC, graduating in 1859. He moved to Arkansas in 1860, where he was engaged in farming when he enlisted on June 14, 1862 as 2nd lieutenant in Co. E of the 33rd AR Infantry. In the spring of 863, he was the acting adjutant. In June of 1863, he was ill. By February 1864, he was once again ill, and in March 1864, he resigned with a surgeon's certificate of disability citing "hepatitis chronica and general physical disability" as the causes.

He returned to farming in Arkansas, moving back to his native North Carolina in 1870 where he was a farmer,  merchant, and magistrate until he was elected warden deputy warden of the state penitentiary in 1883, becoming warden in 1893. He died March 18, 1921.

Jasper Fleming, student 1853-1854

Fleming enlisted as 3rd lieutenant in Co. C of the 13th NC Infantry on April 24, 1861. He was promoted to adjutant on June 3, 1861 and to adjutant and 1st lieutenant on December 31, 1861. Fleming resigned on December 20, 1862 due to ill health, as he had been sick from typhoid fever since the summer of 1862.

He was a merchant in Caswell County, NC after the war. Fleming died of pneumonia on February 18, 1902 at the age of 68 while attending a special dairying course at N.C. State in Raleigh, NC. he is buried in Cedars Cemetery in Milton, NC.

William W. Hereford, Class of 1841

Hereford, a physician in Pontotoc County, MS, enlisted as a private on March 2, 1861 in the 1st Battalion MS Cavalry.  He later served as a surgeon.  His fate after the war is unknown.

John J. Tillar, student 1859-1861

John J. Tillar enlisted as sergeant on May 4, 1861 in the Greensville Guard, Co. F of the 5th Battalion VA Reserves Infantry. By May of 1862, he was  listed in pay records on the rolls and in an order from the Adjutant and Inspector General's Office as captain of the company.  He died in 1862 of unknown causes.

Olive Branch Morgan, student 1861-1862

Morgan enlisted as a private  in Co. C of the Lunenburg Artillery on October 1, 1862.He was promoted to sergeant major in October 1863 and was on detached service. He was wounded in the left wrist at the Battle of Sailor's Creek, VA on April 6, 1865 and captured. He was paroled on April 14, 1865 in Burkeville, VA.

Morgan lived in Petersburg, VA after the war, working as a bookkeeper in 1870 and as a merchant in 1880. By 1900 he had moved to Richmond, VA, where he was a manager for a chemical company. Morgan died December 24, 1934 and he is buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, VA.

William Frederick Hobbs, student 1862-1863

Hobbs enlisted in July 1863 in Co. D of the 8th VA Cavalry, Captain Dearing's company which later became Co. I of the 24th VA Cavalry. He was appointed corporal in February 1864. He ws promoted to sergeant in August 1864. He was captured at Amelia Court House, VA on April 6, 1865 and sent to the prison camp at Point Lookout, MD, from which he was released on June 13, 1865.

After the war, Hobbs lived in Greensville County, VA and engaged in farming for many years.  His 1917 application for a pension list his occupation as collector for a furniture company. By 1920, he was living in Norfolk, VA and he was still alive in Norfolk in 1930.

William Arthur Wheatley, student 1858-1861

Wheatley, from Memphis, TN, enlisted as a private in Co. E of the 13th VA Infantry on June 20, 1861.  The company was disbanded and he was discharged in November 1861. On March 25, 1862 he was in Memphis and enlisted as a sergeant in the 17th Battalion TN Cavalry. Late in the war, he provided a substitute and traveled to Louisiana to attend to plantation business, where he rejoined the army as a private in Co. A of the 3rd LA Infantry on an unknown date. He was paroled in Shreveport, LA on April 15, 1865.

He returned to Memphis after the war where he was involved in real estate.He died May 11, 1901 and is buried in Memphis, TN in Elmwood Cemetery.

Thomas Collins Wheelwright, student 1859-1860

Wheelwright enlisted as a private in Co. C of the 9th VA Cavalry on May 25, 1861.  He was paroled at Bowling Green, Va on May 4, 1865. The regiment history, written by Richard L. T. Beale and published in 1899, states that he was wounded during the war but does not indicate when or where.  His fate after his parole is unknown.

John Nicholas Tapscott, student 1859-1860

Tapscott enlisted in Co. E of the 20th VA Infantry on May 20, 1861 as a private for one year. On December 10, 1862 he enlisted as a private in Co. K of the 4th VA Cavalry.

After the war, he returned home to Buckingham County, VA where he was a farmer in 1870 and 1880.  At the time of his death on October 29, 1895 he was a school teacher.

Beverly Woodson, student 1862-1863

Woodson enlisted in Captain Allen's Company of the Lunenburg (VA) Light Artillery as a private on January 19, 1864. He was absent without leave in late 1864, but had returned to the company by early 1865. He was paroled at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.

After the war, he returned to Lunenburg County, VA and was a farmer. By 1910, he was living in the Confederate Soldiers Home in Richmond, VA and was still there in 1920.

Charles C. Wimbish, student 1860-1861

Wimbish enlisted as a private in Co. A of the 3rd VA Cavalry on May 14, 1861. He was absent from the company due to illness for several months from December 1861-March 1862 in Williamsburg, VA and again in May 1862 in Farmville, VA for diarrhea and was listed in October 1862 as deserted. He returned to his company and was hospitalized in Richmond, VA in late November 1863 for chronic diarrhea. He was wounded in the right thigh at the Battle of Trevilian Station, VA on June 11, 1864 and hospitalized in Charlottesville, VA from June 13-June 23, 1864. In january 1865, he was hospitalized once more in Charlottesville, this time for rheumatism.

After the war, he returned to Mecklenburg County, VA where he was a farmer in 1870. He is reported to have died in 1875.

Henry D. Milam, Class of 1853

Milam, a merchant in Warren County, NC in 1860, enlisted in Co. B of the 30th NC Infantry on August 16, 1861. He was discharged September 20, 1861 for reasons unknown. He was conscripted into Mallett's Battalion for quartermaster duty at some point later, and was released from duty as an agent due to general disability on March 14, 1865.


Milam spent the remainder of his life in Warren County, NC as a manager of farms, a miller and farmer. He died sometime after 1900.

James E. Keegan, student 1851-1852

Keegan enlisted on March 22, 1862 as a private in Co. K of the 27th LA Infantry. He was promoted to sergeant September 1, 1862. He was captured at Vicksburg, MS on July 4, 1863 and exchanged at Shreveport, LA on September 1, 1864.

Keegan was a farmer in Nagitoches, LA after the war. He was a hotel keeper by 1900 and by 1910 he has his "own income." He died December 24, 1919 and is buried in Robeline Cemetery in Nagitoches, LA.

D'Arcy Wentworth Paul, Jr., student 1839-1840

Paul, a merchant in 1850 and a merchandise broker in 1860 in Petersburg, VA and son of longtime R-MC trustee D'Arcy Paul, enlisted as a private in Co. K of the 12th VA Infantry. He was immediately promoted to first lieutenant on May 1, 1862.

He died January 20, 1863, when he was killed by a falling tree in camp near Fredericksburg, VA by the Rappahannock River at U.S. Ford. He is buried in Petersburg, VA in Blandford Cemetery.

Samuel Buckner Paul, student 1841-1842

Paul, younger son of longtime R-MC trustee D'Arcy Paul, had attended the University of Virginia after R-MC, grdauting in 1846.  He was a lawyer in Petersburg, VA in 1850 and had edited and owned a Petersburg newspaper in the late 1850s. He enlisted on September 6, 1861 as lieutenant colonel of the 28th VA Infantry. Paul left the regiment on April 15, 1862 when he was not reelected to that position in a reorganization of the regiment. In 1864, he was appointed AAG on the staff of General P.G.T. Beauregard.

After the war, he became involved in the insurance industry in Petersburg. By 1880, he was an insurance attorney living in Petersburg but practicing in both Petersburg and Richmond. He was practicing law in New York City by 1900. Paul died on September 26, 1908 and is buried in Petersburg, VA in Blandford Cemetery.

William Frederick Hobbs, student 1862-1863

Hobbs enlisted as a corporal in Co. I of the 24th VA Cavalry on July 24, 1863.  He was appointed sergeant on July 8, 1864. He was captured at Amelia Court House on April 6, 1865 and sent to the prison camp at Point Lookout, MD, from which he was released on June 13, 1865.

After the war, he was a farmer in Greensville County, VA and remained there until sometime between 1910 and 1920, when he moved to Norfolk, VA. He died on January 25, 1932 and is buried in Emporia Cemetery in Emporia, VA.

Benjamin Zachariah Herndon, Class of 1842

Herndon, a wealthy farmer in Cokesbury, SC who had served in the S.C. House of Representatives from 1854-1855, raised a 90 day reserve regiment, Co. A of the 5th Regiment SC Reserves and served as its captain from November 10, 1862 until February 15, 1863. He was elected on December 27, 1864 as lieutenant colonel in the1st South Carolina Reserves.

He remained a prominent farmer in Cokesbury, SC his entire life. Herndon died on April 21, 1886 and is buried in Cokesbury's Tabernacle Cemetery.

John Algernon Heartwell, student 1854-1855

Heartwell, a farmer before the war in Brunswick County, VA, enlisted as a private in the Brunswick Guard, Co. A of the 5th Battalion VA Infantry, on May 4, 1861. He was discharged for disability on February 17, 1862. His disability certificate indicates his complaint as "icterus brought on by exposure to the miasmatic influences which surround this camp" at Hardy's Bluff, VA, which was the location of Fort Huger in Isle of Wight County, VA.

Heartwell, returned to Brunswick County, where he farmed the rest of his life. He died in 1908 and is buried in the Heartwell Family Cemetery on Route 715 in Brunswick County, VA

Hugh Davis Bracey, Class of 1851

Bracey, a farmer in Mecklenburg County, VA before the war, enlisted as a private on May 1, 1862 in Co. F of the 14th VA Infantry.  He was transferred to Co. I of the regiment on October 31, 1862. Bracey was discharged on January 10, 1863 upon furnishing a substitute, John Kearney, who deserted three days later on January 13, 1863.

By 1870, Bracey had relocated to Volusia County, FL where he remained the rest of his life and was engaged in farming. In 1880, he was practicing dentistry, a profession he only retired from a year prior to his death. He died on March 8, 1914 and is buried in Beresford Cemetery in Deland, FL.

Richard Samuel F. Peete, Class of 1849 (A.B.) and 1852 (A.M.)

Peete was a schoolteacher in Charlotte County, VA in 1850 after he graduated from R-MC. He then studied medicine from 1850-1851 at the University of Virginia, from which he was expelled in June 1851 for leaving the room during exams, the first honor trial at UVA. Peete would later be granted his M.D.from the University of Louisville, and he was a physician in Charlotte County, VA in 1860.

He was commissioned as surgeon of the 12th North Carolina Infantry on May 23, 1862. He resigned due to disability on March 25, 1864.

After the war, he resided in Warren County, NC where in 1866 he was performing marriages as a Justice of the Peace in addition to practicing medicine.  He was still practicing in 1870 but had stopped by 1875 when he moved to the town of Warrenton, NC.

Benjamin Hudson Thackston, Class of 1858

Thackston became President and Professor of Ancient Languages at Marshall College in Huntington, Virginia, now Marshall University in West Virginia, after his 1858 graduation from Randolph-Macon. He left the college and was a school principal in Putnam County, VA in 1860. He was working as a clerk in the Treasury Department in Richmond, a position he sought in 1862, when he was conscripted into Co. D of the 3rd VA Battalion Infantry Local Defense Troops on August 1, 1863. He spent much of 1864 detailed to the Treasury Department processing payments to the families of deceased soldiers or absent due to illness. He was hospitalized for nephritis at Chimborazo in Richmond, VA from November 25, 1864 through January 1865. He was paroled in Richmond, VA on May 5, 1865.

After the war he returned to West Virginia and taught, once again at Marshall college from 1874-1877 and serving as its principal from 1881-1884, when he left the teaching profession and entered business. He died on August 24, 1918 and is buried in Huntington, WV in Spring Hill Cemetery.

Samuel Downing, Jr., student 1858-1859

Downing attended VMI after leaving R-MC. He enlisted in Co. D of the 9th VA Cavalry on September 26, 1861 as a private. He was discharged on December 13, 1861 to resume his studies at VMI. On March 25, 1862, he enlisted in Co. L of the 55th VA Infantry as second lieutenant. He was wounded August 29, 1862 at the Battle of Second Manassas and again on May 2, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville, VA. He was promoted to captain July 8, 1863. On November 27, 1863 at the Battle of Mine Run, VA, he sustained a third wound, this time in his lower abdomen. During his convalescence in Northumberland County, VA, he was taken prisoner on January 13, 1864. He was sent to the prison camp at Point Lookout, MD and was hospitalized there on January 28, 1864.  Downing was exchanged on March 25, 1864 and he returned to his regiment. He was wounded a fourth time, this time in the arm, on August 18, 1864 at the Battle of Weldon Railroad, VA. He was paroled on May 8, 1865 in Northumberland County, VA.

In 1870, Downing was teaching school in Heathsville, VA. By the time of his death on March 11, 1885, he was living in Maryland.  He is buried in Baltimore in Loudon Park Cemetery.

John Lyon, Class of 1844 (A.B.) and 1847 (A.M.)

Lyon, a lawyer in Petersburg, VA prior to the war, had attended the University of VA in 1848-49 to study law after completing his R-MC degrees. He organized Co. B of the 12th VA Infantry and was commissioned captain of the company on April 19, 1861, having served as a captain of the militia.

After the war, Lyon practiced law in Petersburg. He moved to Richmond in 1873 and continued his law practice, eventually moving to Washington, D.C. Lyon died on November 5, 1897 and is buried in Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg, VA.

Daniel Lyon, Jr., student 1845-1846

Lyon, who attended The University of VA in 1847-48 after leaving R-MC, was a druggist and tobacconist in Petersburg, VA prior to the war. He enlisted as a private in Co. B of the 12th VA Infantry on March 22, 1862. His older brother John was captain of the company. He was detailed as a hospital steward in April 1862 and was discharged from the 12th VA and promoted to hospital steward in July 1862.  He was recommended to be assigned to the commissary department and at some point promoted to corporal. He was paroled in May of 1865 in Greensboro, NC and his parole  labels him as "bonded agent" for the Confederate Nitre and Mining Bureau.

Lyon moved to Brooklyn, NY after the war, where he was engaged in the tobacco trade and in manufacturing. He was retired by 1910 and still residing in Booklyn.