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.
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