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.
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