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.