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.
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