Monday, June 11, 2012

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.

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