Algernon Epes Campbell, student 1845-1846

Campbell, who graduated from the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA in 1851, was a physician and weathy farmer in Nottoway, VA at the beginning of the war. Although he did not serve in the military, he was appointed in November 1859 to enlist volunteers for the county militia companies. Additionally, in November 1861, he was appointed as Nottoway County's Collector of Confederate War Tax. A July 1, 1864 article in the Richmond Examiner states that during a Yankee raid, Algernon Campbell's home in Nottoway County was plundered and everything taken. He apparently did not recover financially; in 1865, the family plantation home, Blendon, passed out of Campbell's hands. In an 1868 lawsuit, his wife indicated Campbell was "insolvent and has made no provision whatever for the maintenance of your complainant and her children three in number."  Campbell died on January 4, 1870.