Henry Edmund Lockett, Class of 1838 (A.B.) and 1841 (A.M.)

Lockett was a lawyer in Washington, Texas when he enlisted as 1st lieutenant of Co. C of the 20th TX Infantry in March 1862. He was hospitalized  in the General Hospital in Houston, TX on March 25, 1863 due to delirium tremens, which is most often associated with severe alcohol withdrawal, although there are other causes. Lockett died on March 27, 1863.

Walter Shay, Student 1854-1855

Shay was a farmer in Lancaster County, VA when he enlisted as a private in Co. D of the 9th VA Cavalry in June 16, 1861.  On November 11, 1861, he was discharged for disability due to consumption, a disease his older brother William, also an R-MC alumnus, had died from in 1859.  Shay apparently recovered as he rejoined the company on February 15, 1863.

After the war, he farmed in Lancaster County and was still alive in 1894, when he attended a veteran's reunion.

James W. Jackson, Class of 1849 (A.B.) and 1852 (A.M.)

Jackson taught school in Mississippi and in Virginia after graduating from R-MC. He enlisted as a private in Co. A of the 3rd VA Cavalry on July 1, 1861 with his younger brother Charles Lafayette Jackson. James was hospitalized in Richmond with rheumatism in late May of 1862; in Charlottesville, VA with morbi cutis in November 1863; and in Staunton, VA with an unknown ailment in December of 1864.

After the war, he farmed in Mecklenburg County, VA.

Robert A. Jackson, Class of 1852

Jackson was a farmer in Mecklenburg County, VA when he enlisted on January 20, 1862 as 2nd lieutenant of Co. D of the 2nd Regiment VA Artillery, which later became the 22nd Battalion VA Infantry. He was killed on June 28, 1862 in an unspecified location, but his company was involved in the Seven Days' Battles near Richmond during this time and it is nearly certain he died in this engagement.

John H. Ivey, student 1849-1850

Ivey was a lawyer in Weldon, NC when he enlisted as a private in Co. G of the 12th NC Infantry on May 16, 1861. He died on Feb. 28, 1862 of an unspecified illness.

Frank H. Scott, student 1853-1854

Scott was a farmer in Prince Edward County, VA when he enlisted as a sergeant in Co. K of the 3rd VA Cavalry on June 24, 1861. He was on furlough due to illness from January through at least March 1862. He was admitted to the hospital Richmond in January 1863 and transferred to Farmville, VA. In May 1863 his rank was listed as private. By September 1863 he was assigned to the quartermasters department in Prince Edward County.  He was assigned this light duty based on chronic kidney diseases that deemed to likely be permanent by the medical board. By early 1865, he was supervising the government stables in Farmville. His pension application (see below) indicates he surrendered at Greensboro, NC with General Johnston.

Scott was a merchant in Mecklenburg County, VA in 1870. By 1880, he had returned to Prince Edward County where his occupation is listed as miller. In 1900, Scott was a coal dealer in Macon, GA. He appears in the 1910 census in Galveston, TX in the household of one of his sons. By 1915 he had returned to Georgia as he applied for a pension in the state of Georgia and listed his home as Atlanta. In the application, he indicated he had moved from Farmville, VA to Macon, GA in 1889, and that he was now blind. He died January 25, 1918 and is buried in Riverside Cemetery in Macon, GA.

George E. Ferebee, student 1852-1853

Ferebee attended the preparatory department prior to his enrollment as a college student. He was farming in Princess Anne County, VA at the beginning of the war. Ferebee enlisted as a private in Co. F of the 6th VA Infantry on February 19, 1862.  In September 1862, Ferebee was hospitalized at Chimborazo in Richmond, VA for odontalgia, a toothache. He was promoted to ensign for the 6th VA Infantry on October 25, 1864. Ferebee was paroled at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865 and is listed as 1st lieutenant and ensign.

After the war, he returned to farming in Princess Anne County, VA. Ferebee died on July 19, 1896.

Charles W. Ogburn, student 1852-1853

Ogburn, a planter (farmer) in Mecklenburg County, VA, enlisted as a private in the Chambliss Greys, Co. F of the 14th VA Infantry, on May 12, 1861. In September of 1861, he was hospitalized in Williamsburg, VA with typhoid fever. He was discharged on May 17, 1862 upon furnishing a substitute, James Knight, who deserted a week later.

Ogburn returned home to Mecklenburg County, VA, where he farmed. The 1880 census lists him as a dealer in leaf tobacco. He died on October 15, 1885 and is buried in the Ogburn Family Cemetery at North View  in Mecklenburg County, VA.

Peyton Alfred Brown, student 1854-1855

Brown enlisted in the Cumberland Light Dragoons, Co. G of the 3rd VA Cavalry, as a private on June 24, 1861.He was promoted to 2nd lieutenant on April 15, 1862. Shortly afterwards his rank went back to private when the company was reorganized. He was paroled April 28, 1865 in Farmville, VA.

After the war, he was briefly a merchant in Virginia and then moved to Missouri and became a farmer. He returned to Virginia in the 1880s and was a tobacco manufacturer in Lynchburg. In 1893 he moved back to Missouri and farmed until he retired in 1905. Brown died in Missouri in 1931 at the age of 95 and is buried in Mount Carmel Cemetery in Fairville, Saline County, MO.

James Kirkpatrick, Class of 1854

Kirkpatrick, who earned a Bachelors in English Literature and Science rather than the traditional A.B. degree, was a farmer in Cumberland County, NC at the outbreak of the war. He enlisted as a private in Co. F of the 1st NC Infantry, the Lafayette Light Infantry, on April 17, 1861 and served until November 12, 1861 when the regiment was disbanded. On May 22, 1862, Kirkpatrick enlisted as a private in Co. A of the 5th NC Cavalry, also designated as the 63rd NC  Regiment, and served until the war's end.

After the war, he returned to Cumberland County, NC and farmed for most of his life. He was listed as a surveyor in the 1900 census. Kirkpatrick died on April 6, 1920 and is buried in Cross Creek Cemetery #2 in Fayetteville, NC.

William Caswell Drake, student 1850-1851

Drake, a farmer in Warren County, NC, organized Company B of the 30th NC Infantry and became its captain on August 16, 1861. Drake was hospitalized in Richmond, VA in October 1862 with chronic hepatitis. While camped near Port Royal, VA on December 10, 1862, he submitted a letter of resignation backed by a surgeon's certificate of disability citing ill health, which was accepted on January 5, 1863. In his letter he indicated a willingness to serve in a local position, and he later served as major in the home guard. A November 16, 1864 article in the Raleigh, NC newspaper, the North Carolina Standard, states that "the following named field and staff officers will repair to Goldsboro and report to Brigadier General Leventhorpe for duty with the 2nd Class of Guards for Home Defense," and lists Major W. C. Drake of Warren among them.

After the war, he returned to farming in Warren County, NC. He was an educator and served as Justice of the Peace. Drake died on May 6, 1907 and is buried in the Fitts Family Cemetery at Oakville in Warren County, NC.

Benjamin C. Drew, Class of 1850

Drew, who had represented Surry County in the Virginia House of Delegates in the mid 1850s, enlisted on April 20, 1861 as a sergeant in Co. E of the 5th VA Cavalry. On May 3, 1862, he was promoted to lieutenant. He became captain on August 22, 1862, after the company had been designated Co.G, 13th VA Cavalry. Drew resigned his commission on August 20, 1863 due to ill health. His medical records indicate he was suffering from chronic nephritis and general debility, while in his resignation letter he cites "a delicate constitution which I fear is rapidly failing."

By 1870, Drew had moved to Southampton County, VA, where he engaged in farming until his death in March 1886.

William E. Goode, student 1858-1860

Goode attended Hampden-Sydney College after leaving R-MC, and enlisted on May 28, 1861 as a corporal in Co. G of the 20th VA Infantry, the "Hampden-Sydney Boys." He was captured at the Battle of Rich Mountain on July 11, 1861, and was paroled on July 17, 1861 at Beverly, VA (now WV) with the other students in his company on the condition that they return to school. Goode was officially discharged from service on September 13, 1861. On August 20, 1862, Goode enlisted as a private in Capt. B. H. Smith's Company, Virginia Light Artillery (3rd Company, Richmond Howitzers) and served until the end of the war.

After the war, he moved to Fayette County, TN where he was a teacher and in the 1870 census is listed as a book keeper. He moved to Brownsville, TN where by 1880 he was a salesman in a dry goods store. Goode died on March 25, 1891.

John Bascom Jordan, student 1858-1861

Jordan, from Gates County, NC, enlisted in Co. C of the 2nd NC Cavalry on June 17, 1861. By October, 1861, he was a sergeant, but is listed as a private when he was killed at Hanover, PA on June 28, 1863.

Francis (Frank) Woolfolk Scott, Jr., student 1860-1861

Scott enlisted as a private in Co. B of the 9th VA Cavalry on May 6, 1861. In late 1863 and early 1864, he served as a courier for General Chambliss and Colonel Beale. He was captured on April 3, 1865 and paroled on April 20, 1865.

After the war, he was a farmer in Middlesex County, VA. Scott died on October 18, 1935 in Deltaville, VA and is buried in the cemetery at Lower United Methodist Church in Hartfield, Middlesex County, VA.

John E. Miller, student 1860-1861

Miiller was a teacher in Warren County, NC in 1860 prior to enrolling at Randolph Macon. He enlisted as a private in Co. F of the 12th NC Infantry on May 18, 1861. Miller was wounded in the forearm and knee joint at the Battle of Gaines' Mill on June 27, 1862 and hospitalized in Richmond, VA where he remained until he received a medical discharge on September 25, 1862. His whereabouts after this are unknown at this time.

James Williamson Millner, student 1860-1861

Millner enlisted in Co. K of the 38th VA Infantry, the Cascade Rifles of the Pittsylvania Regiment, as a sergeant on June 2, 1861. He was elected 3rd lieutenant on September 17, 1861 and promoted to 2nd lieutenant on November 14, 1861. He was "wounded slightly" on July 1, 1862 at the Battle of Malvern Hill, VA, the last of the Seven Days Battles near Richmond, VA. Millner resigned his commission in a letter dated December 26, 1862 because he wished to join a cavalry company. The resignation was accepted on January 13, 1863, but no records of him with a cavalry unit have been located and he is listed on the rolls of Co. K in early 1865 as a private. Millner was wounded in the right side of the neck by a minie ball at the Battle of Five Forks, VA on April 1, 1865, hospitalized in Petersburg, VA and  and captured on April 3, 1865. He remained in hospitals until his release on July 22, 1865 upon taking the oath of allegiance.

After the war, Millner returned home to Pittsylvania County, VA where he farmed. Sometime between 1880 and 1900, he moved to Rockingham County, NC where he died on October 15, 1910. Millner is buried in Greenview Cemetery in Reidsville, NC.

Richard Boyd, Class of 1854

Boyd graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1857 and was practicing medicine in Petersburg, VA in 1860. He was appointed an Assistant Surgeon in the Medical Department of the CSA on July 19, 1861. He served in several hospitals including in Charlottesville, Culpeper, Orange Court House, and Farmville until October of 1863, when he was sent to Charleston, SC, where he served in the 1st NC hospital before being placed in charge of the post hospital at Adams Run, SC in January 1864.  He was promoted to Surgeon on April 19, 1864. At some point in 1864 he returned to Virginia and was assigned to the 64th GA Infantry, remaining with them until he surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April  9, 1865.

After the war, he returned home to Mecklenburg County, VA and practiced medicine. Dr. Boyd died on February 13, 1893 and is buried in Oakhurst Cemetery in Clarksville, VA

Henry Clay Wall, student in the Preparatory Department, 1856-1857

Wall, younger brother of William Covington Wall, was a student in the Preparatory Department during the year his older brother attended the college. "Clay" Wall enlisted as a private with his brother in Co. D of the 23rd NC Infantry, the Pee Dee Guards, on May 30, 1861. He was promoted to sergeant on November 3, 1861. Wall was discharged from the company when he furnished a substitute on May 10, 1862. On March 1, 1864, he enlisted as a private in Co. A of the 4th NC Cavalry (also known as the 59th NC Infantry).

After the war, he farmed and was a merchant in Rockingham, NC.  In 1876, he published a regimental history, Historical Sketch of the Pee Dee Guards. Wall died July 31, 1899 and is buried in the Leak Cemetery in Rockingham, Richmond County, NC.

Edward Marcellus Jordan, student 1856-1861

Jordan enlisted as a private on May 16, 1861 in Co. F of the 27th NC Infantry. He was promoted to corporal on July 1, 1861. In August 1861, he was transferred to Co. C of the 2nd NC Cavalry as a private. In 1862, he was detailed for a while as ordnance sergeant and to the quartermasters department. Jordan was wounded in the right shoulder on June 9, 1863 at the Battle of Brandy Station and was hospitalized at Chimborazo in Richmond, VA.. He was promoted to second lieutenant on December 15, 1863 and to adjutant for the regiment on August 3, 1864. He surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.

After the war, he became a Methodist minister serving in the Virginia Conference until 1911. Jordan died in 1914.

Edward C. Jordan, student 1847-1848

Jordan practised law in Person County, NC before moving to Arkansas sometime in the late 1850s. He was a lawyer in Little Rock, AR in 1860. In July 1861, Jordan joined the 12th AR Infantry, where he served as  Captain and Assistant Quartermaster. He served with this unit until the Battle of Island Ten in the Mississippi River, when most of the regiment was captured. Jordan escaped capture and fought with the 6th AR Infantry until the 12th AR Infantry was reorganized in late 1862 after the prisoners were exchanged. He became its lieutenant colonel, serving until his death in June 1863 during the Battle of Port Hudson, LA, when a shell fragment severed his right leg and backbone. He was buried on the field.

Robert Mason Mallory, Class of 1852 (A.B.) and 1855 (A.M.)

Mallory was a lawyer in Brunswick County, VA. his father, James Baugh Mallory, served as the Brunswick County delegate to Virginia's 1861 Secession Convention.  Robert M. Mallory served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1859-1863, and also had a mail contract with the Confederate government. Mallory's application for a presidential pardon at the end of the war states that he was county agent for Brunswick to receive "the tax in kind" for the Confederate government. In his application letter he makes the claim that these were insignificant; however the Provost Marshal in Brunswick County states that Mallory "has been an influential agent of the late so called Confederate government and is anxious to renew his allegiance to the United States." Mallory signed the oath of allegiance on July 10, 1865 and was granted a presidential pardon by Andrew Johnson on July 29, 1865.

After the war, he resumed his occupation as a lawyer and remained a prominent citizen in Brunswick County. He served as a judge for the Brunswick County Court from 1870-1876 and served again in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1885-1887. Judge Mallory died on July 4, 1903 and is buried in the Mallory Family Cemetery in Brunswick County, VA.

John Emory Wheeler, student 1855-1856

Wheeler attended Princeton Theological Seminary and Yale University after leaving R-MC. He was a Presbyterian preacher in Wytheville, VA prior to the war, was married in Louisiana in 1862 and was ordained in Mississippi in 1864. He was commissioned chaplain of the 31st LA Infantry on April 10, 1863 and was assigned as the post chaplain at Enterprise, MS. A letter dated December 12, 1863 indicates he did not leave Enterprise to report to the 31st LA indicating it was "well nigh impossible for me to join it." He resigned June 17, 1864.

After the war, he taught at Oakland College in MS and also preached. He then was a pastor in Nashville, TN, in Missouri, in Sacramento and San Francisco, CA, and in Baltimore. He died November 22, 1905 in Harrisonville, MD and is buried in Druid Ridge Cemetery in Baltimore County, MD.

James G. T. "Gray" Shell, student 1862-1863

Gray Shell, younger brother of John Robert Shell, joined the Captain Epes' Company of the Chesterfield (VA) Light Artillery on an unknown date. He is listed as receiving clothing in March, 1864 and for the 4th quarter of 1864. He is listed in Blackwell family genealogies as having died during the war in 1864 with no further information provided and disappears from the historical record.

John Robert Shell, student 1859-1860

Shell enlisted as a private in Co. G of the 9th Virginia Cavalry on an unknown date. Since he was a medical student at the time of his enlistment, he was assigned in 1862 as a hospital steward at the Huguenot Springs hospital near Richmond, where he served as an apothecary. He took the oath of allegiance and was paroled as a prisoner of war on May 10, 1865.

After the war, he returned to Lunenburg County, VA and was a farmer in 1870 and a horse trader in 1880. By 1900 he had moved to Brunswick County, VA where he was a farmer in 1900 and a dealer in 1910. Shell died on February 27, 1914 and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Lawrenceville, VA

Hardy L. Fennell, student 1851-1852

Fennell enlisted as 1st lieutenant of Co. C of the 1st NC Infantry on May 16, 1861. In late 1861, he was commanding the company. He was shot in the hips on June 27, 1862 during the Battle of Gaines's Mill at Cold Harbor, VA, a very serious wound, and he was promoted to captain shortly after on July 8, 1862. Fennell was disabled by his wound and resigned on December 15, 1862, stating in his letter of resignation the the had "never sufficiently recovered so as to be able to walk." His service record indicates he died shortly afterwards, but does not indicate the date. One source indicates his death as September 3, 1863.

Robert H. Simmons, student 1858-1859

Simmons enlisted as a private in the the Boydton Cavalry, Co. A of the 3rd VA Cavalry, on May 14, 1861. He was killed on June 9, 1863 at the Battle of Brandy Station, VA.

James W. Buford, student 1857-1858

Buford, who attended the University of Virginia after leaving R-MC, enlisted as a private in Co. H of the 53rd VA Infantry on May 25, 1861. He was wounded in the leg at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1863 and was hospitalized at Chimborazo in Richmond and then in Petersburg, and is reported as "sick at home" for several months afterward. Buford is reported as having died in 1865.

James Colin Neal, student 1861-1862

After Randolph-Macon closed for the war, Neal attended VMI and then Washington College. According to his pension application dated May 22, 1918, he joined Co. G of the 9th VA Cavalry in June 1864 and surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.

Neal was a faremr in Lunenburg County, VA in 1880 but by 1900 had moved to Petersburg, VA where he was a tobacco auctioneer. He died on August 9, 1927 and is buried in Petersburg's Blandford Cemetery.

William R. Oliver, student 1857-1858

Oliver, a retail merchant from Buchanan County, Missouri, served in the Union Army in Co. B of the 12th Missouri Cavalry. He was enrolled for duty September 23, 1863 and mustered in on November 3, 1863. He was assigned to enrolling recruits in St. Joseph, MO on December 18, 1863, where he was injured by an accidental gunshot wound to the hand on December 31, 1863 and was discharged for disability on April 28, 1864. He returned home to DeKalb. MO where he was a dry goods merchant in 1870. By 1880, he was a railroad agent. In 1872, he was awarded a monthly pension of $8.00 for his service disability. Oliver died on April 30, 1916 and is buried in Dearborn Community Cemetery in Dearborn, MO.

James Wiley Ferebee, student 1857-1858

Ferebee, who attended the University of North Carolina after leaving R-MC, joined Co. M of the 2nd NC Infantry on May 30, 1861 as a private. This regiment later became Co. B of the 32nd NC Infantry, and when it was reorganized in the spring of 1862, Ferebee was promoted to its captain on May 1, 1862 but would not serve long. He died of disease in Petersburg, VA on July 17, 1862.

Thomas Blackwell, student 1862-1863

Blackwell enlisted in Co. G of the 9th VA Cavalry on January 20, 1864. He died from typhoid fever at Gordonsville, VA on May 18, 1864 in the Gordonsville Receiving Hospital, also known as the Charity Hospital.

Nathaniel P. Boyd, student 1860-1861

Boyd enlisted as a private in Co. B of the 2nd MS Infantry on March 3, 1862. He was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 1, 1863.

Edward A. Scott, student 1853-1854

Scott, a farmer in Prince Edward County, VA enlisted on June 24, 1861 as a private in Co. K of the 3rd VA Cavalry. He was killed in 1861 while on picket duty at Newport News, VA.

Thomas William Brown Edwards, student 1849-1850

Brown enlisted as a sergeant in Captain Sandford's cavalry company, which later became Co. C of the 9th VA Cavalry, on Dec. 24, 1861. He was taken prisoner on April 3, 1865 at Amelia Court House, Va and sent to the prison camp at Point Lookout, MD. He took the oath of allegiance on June 11, 1865 and was released.

After the war, he returned to farming in Westmoreland County, VA. Brown died on May 1, 1887 in Montross, Westmoreland County, VA.

Warner W. Coleman, student 1852-1853

Coleman graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's medical school in 1857 and was a practicing physician in Middlesex County, VA in 1860. He joined the 109th Virginia Militia as a corporal on July 22, 1861. This regiment was permanently disbanded in December 1861 and there is no record of further service.

Dr. Coleman had married a native of Pennsylvania, and by 1880 he had moved to Pennsylvania and was operating a grocery store in Lawrence County, PA.

Samuel Francis Coleman, student 1859-1861

On July 12, 1861, Coleman enlisted as a private in Co. G of the 3rd VA Cavalry.He was captured on May 9, 1864 during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House. He was sent to Bermuda Hundred, VA and  transferred to Fort Monroe, VA on May 15, 1864, and then sent to the prison camp at Point Lookout, MD on May 16. On August 15, 1864, he was moved to the prison camp at Elmira, NY, where he remained until he was paroled on March 2, 1865 and sent to the James River for exchange. He was admitted to Jackson Hospital in Richmond, VA on March 6, 1865 for "debilitas" and furloughed two days later.

After the war, he taught school in Prince Edward County and read law. He returned home to Cumberland County, VA where he was practicing law in 1870, serving as the county's Commonwealth's Attorney, an office he held from 1870-1883 and in 1891 until he was appointed  judge of the 3rd Circuit Court that same year. He served  in Virginia's General Assembly from 1889-1890 and again from 1891-1892. Coleman died on May 1, 1898. His memorial by the Virginia State Bar Association states that "the dread disease contracted as a prisoner of war at Point Lookout finally overcame him." The nature of the illness is not stated.

John Robert Foster, student 1858-1859

Foster, a farmer in Nottoway County, VA in 1860, enlisted as a private in Co. E of the 3rd VA Cavalry on May 27, 1861. He was hospitalized in Farmville, VA in May 1862 and is listed on the same document as deserted in October 1862, although this may be an error. He was shot in the arm at Kelly's Ford, VA on March 17, 1863 and hospitalized in Charlottesville, VA. Foster was promoted to corporal on July 15, 1863. By the time of his surrender and parole on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox Court House, he had been promoted to sergeant.

Foster died on January 20, 1919 and is buried in the Marshall Family Cemetery in Rehoboth, Lunenburg County, VA.

James Grant Odom, student 1858-1859

Odom enlisted as a private in Co. C of the 12th Battalion NC Cavalry on Dec. 19,1862. He was captured July 28, 1863 near Edward's Mill, NC, at which time he was a lieutenant. He was sent from Fort Norfolk, VA to the prison camp at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, MD on August 10, 1863. He was sent to the prison camp for officers at Johnson's Island, OH on August 22, 1863, arriving on August 24. The superintendant of the prison, Lieutenant Colonel E. A.Scovill, reported in September 1864 that Odom had escaped: "There is no definite knowledge as to the manner, but it is presumed he personated one of the roll-callers and eluded the vigilance of the gate-keepers. There have been several attempts of this kind, but I believe that this is the first successful one." Odom, listed as a lieutenant in the 7th SC Cavalry, was captured again on October 27, 1864 at Petersburg, VA and sent to Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC on October 31. He was then sent to Fort Delaware on December 16, 1864 and remained there until he took the oath of allegiance and was paroled on June 7, 1865.  It is unknown whether he returned home to Northampton County, NC; no records of him after this have been found.

Odom is probably also the James Grant Odom who on May 23, 1861 mustered into Co. G of the 5th NC Infantry (later Co. A of the 15th NC Infantry) in June, 1861. He was promoted to corporal on June 10, 1862. Odom was wounded on September 17, 1862 at Sharpsburg, MD during the Battle of Antietam.He was on furlough from late September until December 1862. Although some sources place him in the 15th Infantry until the summer of 1863, it is likely he moved to the cavalry in December 1863.

John W. Clowes, student 1850-1851

Clowes attended the College of William and Mary in his hometown of Williamsburg, VA after leaving R-MC and is listed as a master mechanic in Williamsburg in the 1860 census. In the early years of the war, he served as lieutenant and commanding office of the 68th Virginia Militia. On February 16, 1863, he was mustered into Co. C of the 32nd VA Infantry as a "recruit from depot (conscript)," where he served as a private until the end of the war. He was hospitalized a number of times in 1864 and 1865, including a stay due to neuralgia in February 1865, returning to his unit on March 21, 1865. He received a slight head wound at Dinwiddie Court House, VA ten days later on March 31, 1865 and was hospitalized at the Fair Grounds Hospital in Petersburg, VA, where he was taken POW on April 3, 1865. He was transferred to Newport News, VA on April 23, 1865 and finally took the oath of allegiance there on June 15, 1865. He was then transferred to the Steuart Post Hospital in Richmond on June 20 and to the Alms House Hospital on June 29, 1865.

Clowes died in Williamsburg, VA on November 2, 1866 and is buried there in Cedar Grove Cemetery.

Edmund (Edmond) J. Foster, student 1852-1853

Foster, a farmer in Amelia County, VA, enlisted in the Amelia Light Dragoons, Co. G of the 1st VA Cavalry, as a sergeant on May 9, 1861. He contracted typhoid fever while stationed at Camp Onward near Fairfax Courthouse, VA, and died on August 20, 1861.

John W. Pleasants, student 1853-1854

John W. Pleasants, older brother of James W. Pleasants, was a farmer at Pedlar Mills in Amherst County, VA when the war began. Pleasants joined Co. I of the 19th VA Infantry in 1864.

After the war, John returned to farming in Amherst County. He applied for a pension in 1916., when he was 80 years old.

Charles Baskerville, student 1837-1838

Baskerville attended Princeton University after leaving Randolph-Macon, graduating from that institution in  1841. He is a merchant in Mecklenburg county, VA in the 1850 census but moved to Lowndes County, Mississippi shortly after that date. He was a wealthy merchant and cotton broker in Columbus, Mississippi when the war began. Baskerville organized a company, Co. C of the 4th Battalion MS Cavalry and was commissioned its captain on October 1, 1861. He was promoted to major, lieutenant colonel, and to colonel. He resigned his commission in the summer of 1862 after a disgreement with General Chalmers, and later served as a cotton agent for the Confederacy for the remainder of the war. He was granted a presidential pardon on July 29, 1865.

After the war he moved to Noxubee County, MS where he farmed substantial land holdings. Baskerville died on June 23, 1890 and is buried in Friendship Cemetery in Columbus, MS.

William Timothy Chandler, student 1850-51 and A.M. granted post-Civil War

Chandler was a lawyer practicing in Caroline County, VA at the beginning of the war. He enlisted on July 9, 1861when he was commissioned captain of Co. K of the 47th VA Infantry. He was not reelected captain in April 1862 and on May 27, 1862, joined Co. B of the 9th VA Cavalry as a private. On September 15, 1862, he was detailed to the Signal Corps by order of General J.E.B. Stuart. He was promoted to sergeant while serving in the Signal Corps and remained with the Signal Corps until the end of the war. Chandler was wounded in the knee in 1864. He surrendered May 3, 1865, taking the oath of allegiance.

After the war, he resumed his career as a lawyer Caroline County. His wife founded and was principal of the Bowling Green Female Seminary until the 1890s when the couple moved to Atlanta, GA, wehre he first was in real estate and then returned to law, and she was principal of Washington Female Seminary. Chandler died on January 7, 1901 and is buried in Lakewood Cemetery in Bowling Green, VA.

James McAden Barrow, A.M. 1870

Barrow enlisted on March 29, 1862 as a private in Co. I of the 20th Virginia Infantry, which for a time was designated Co. D, 46th VA Infantry, and finally became Co. B, 59th Va Infantry.  He was promoted to sergeant on September 8, 1864. Barrow was captured on March 26, 1865 at Hatcher's Run, VA and sent to the prison camp at Point Lookout, MD, where he was released on June 23, 1865 after taking the oath of allegiance.

After, the war, he received his A.M. degree in 1870. He became a prominent educator in Columbus, MS, where he spent many years as a teacher and principal. A photograph of Barrow appears in the Irby history of the college with the caption "Superintendent of Schools." Barrow died on November 26, 1904 and is buried in Columbus, MS in Friendship Cemetery. His gravestone uses the variant spelling "McCaden" for his middle name.Shortly after his death, an elementary school in Columbus was named after him.

William Allin Archer, Class of 1862

Archer graduated with the final class before the college closed for the duration of the war in early 1863. He enlisted as a private in Co. A of the 3rd VA Cavalry, the Boydton Cavalry, the company many of his schoolmates had already joined. He was captured near Fredericksburg, VA  at the end of April, 1863 and sent first to Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC and then to Fort Delaware, DE. Archer was paroled in May, 1863. There is some  evidence that he was transferred to a Georgia unit in July, 1864, but this has not yet been verified.

After the war, he attended medical school at the University of Virginia, graduating in 1869. He was practicing medicine in Chesterfield County, VA in 1870 but later moved to Texas, where he practiced in Houston for many years. Archer died on July 6, 1922 and is buried in Houston's Glenwood Cemetery.

Thomas Walter Blake, Class of 1843

Blake, who became a lawyer in North Carolina in 1843, moved to Texas shortly thereafter. He served as state's attorney for the 1st District Court in northeast Texas for many years, but gave up law in 1857 to became a Methodist minister, serving several churches in Leon County, TX as a circuit rider. The census  indicates he owned 11 slaves in 1850, and by 1860 it was 17 slaves.

Blake enlisted in 1861 and was given command of the 17th Brigade Texas State Troops, serving as Brigadier General until his resignation in 1863, when he returned to preaching. He died on January 14, 1905 and is buried in Plantersville, TX in the Plantersville Cemetery. A second grave monument commemorating him was erected in the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, TX.

John Wesley Watts, student 1858-1861

 John Wesley Watts, known as Wesley, enlisted as a lieutenant in Co. F of the 25th Battalion VA Cavalry. Watts was mortally wounded at the the Battle of Brandy Station on June 9, 1863. He died on June 22, 1863 and is buried in the Watts cemetery on Route 600 near Preddy's Creek, Stony Point, Albemarle County, VA.

Lucius E. Barrow, student 1861-1862

Barrow enlisted in Captain Allen's Company, the Lunenburg Artillery, on August 30, 1862. He was furloughed in September 1863 due to General Debility caused by recurring fever. He was paroled at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. His first name on some military records was improperly transcribed as "Lavewers E Barrow."

After the war, he returned to Nottoway County where he was a farmer in 1870. Sometime before 1907 he had moved to Cleburne, TX, when he appears as a business owner in city directories and where he was an abstracter of land titles in the 1910 census. Barrow died May 8, 1915 and is buried in Cleburne Memorial Cemetery.

Frazier Furr, student 1867-1868

Furr enlisted on November 6, 1862 as a sergeant in Co. A of the 17th Battalion VA Cavalry, which in February, 1863 became Co. K of the 11th VA Cavalry. He was paroled on May 6, 1865 in Winchester, VA, where his rank is listed as private.On his parole paper, he signs as "Frasier."

Furr attended R-MC in the final year in its Boydton location. He became a Methodist minister in the Baltimore Conference, serving primarily in the Shenandoah Valley and northern Virginia. Furr died on September 6, 1923 and is buried in Staunton, VA in Thornrose Cemetery.

Peter Fletcher Ford, Class of 1860 (A.M.)

Ford, known as Fletcher, enlisted as a corporal on May 29, 1861 in Co. F of the 20th VA Infantry, which later became Co. A of the 57th VA Infantry. On February 28, 1863, he was in temporary command of the company. He was promoted to 2nd lieutenant on July 30, 1862. Ford was killed on July 3, 1863 during the Battle of Gettysburg.

Edwin Gaston Moore, Class of 1857 (A.B.) and 1860 (A.M.)

Edwin Moore, older brother of Portius Aurelius Moore, was a Professor of Languages in Pitt County, N.C. in 1860. He enlisted in Co. A of the 24th NC Infantry as a private in Person County, NC on August 1, 1862. He was promoted to sergeant on May 1, 1863. Moore was wounded on April 18, 1864 during the Battle of Plymouth (NC) and was transferred on December 13, 1864 to the Veteran Reserve Corps.

He returned to Person County, NC after the war, where he was a teacher in 1870. By 1873, Moore had moved to Atlanta, GA, where he taught school. Moore died on July 15, 1904 and is buried in the Stephen Moore Cemetery in Person County, NC.

Moore's account of the Battle of Plymouth entitled  "Ransom's Brigade--Its Gallant Conduct in the Capture of Plymouth, North Carolina in April 1864" appeared in the Richmond Dispatch on February 25, 1901. It was reprinted after his death in the Southern Historical Society Papers, v. 36, 1908.

John Wesley Taylor, Class of 1860

Taylor was a teacher in Rockingham County, VA, at the beginning of the war. He enlisted as a private in Co. F of the 2nd Virginia Infantry on April 16, 1862. Taylor was reported as a deserter from his regiment on June 15, 1862 at Port Republic, Rockingham County, VA. He was arrested on March 8, 1863 and detailed to work in an iron foundry, where he remained at least through April 1864, when the records end.

After the war, he returned to teaching in Rockingham County, an occupation he was still practicing in 1910. He died on November 22, 1922 and is buried in Lacey Springs Cemetery in Rockingham County, VA.

Thomas Carter Johnson, Class of 1842 (A.B.), 1847 (A.M.) and President 1866-1868

Johnson, who had been a teacher, lawyer, and state legislator in Missouri prior to the war, served as a volunteer aid to General Sterling Price in 1862, during which time his rank is listed as lieutenant colonel. A letter from the Missouri governor to the CSA Secretary of War in early 1863 asks that Johnson be given a position in the Quartermaster or Paymaster departments. Johnson became a Special Agent in  the Quartermasters department, and he was given the charge in the summer of 1863 to establish and oversee a wagon manufacturing factory, the Government Transportation Works, in Columbus, GA. 

At the end of the war, Johnson relocated to Montgomery, AL where he practiced law until he was elected to the presidency of Randolph-Macon College in the fall of 1866, taking office in December 1866 and also serving as Professor of Moral Philosophy. Colonel Johnson, as he was known, resigned in the summer of 1868 preceding the college's move to Ashland, and was mortally injured in August 1868 on his journey home to his family in St. Louis, MO when he was crushed under a train car in Illinois, dying some hours later.

John T. Humphreys, Class of 1859

Humphreys was in Europe when the war began, studying the natural sciences in Oxford, Madrid, and Berlin, where he earned a Ph.D. at the University of Berlin prior to returning to the C.S.A. Humphreys enlisted as a private in Co. C of the 12th N.C. Infantry in March, 1864. He was wounded in the face during the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse on May 19, 1864, fracturing his some of his facial bones. He was discharged due to disability on February 14, 1865 as his wound left him "unable to eat camp rations." He was paroled on April 15, 1865 in Lynchburg, VA.

After the war, he was acknowledged as an expert in the study of lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) and also published geological studies of North Carolina. He died in 1882 due in part to the effects of his war wounds.

John L. Johnson, Class of 1859

Johnson, a native of Mecklenburg County, VA, graduated from Randolph-Macon College in 1859.  The 1860 census shows him as living in Mecklenburg County in his father's household but lists no occupation. Johnson enlisted as a private in Co. F of the 14th VA Infantry on July 17, 1861. He was home on sick leave in April, 1862 and had not returned as of June 30, 1862 when he is listed as absent without leave, but had returned by August. He was promoted to 2nd lieutenant on May 17, 1863. Johnson was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1863.

James C. Hanes, Class of 1855 (A.B.) and 1858(A.M.)

Hanes, younger brother of Captain Garland Hanes, was a farmer in Buckingham County, VA at the beginning of the war. He was drafted as a private into Co. A of the 57th VA Infantry on October 18, 1864. He was captured on April 1, 1865 at Five Forks, VA and sent to the prison camp at Point Lookout, MD on April 5, 1865. Hanes was released on June 13, 1865 after taking the oath of allegiance.

After the war, Hanes returned to farming in Buckingham county, where he also served for many years as superintendent of instruction for the public schools.Hanes died sometime after 1890.