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.