Wilbur Fisk Davis, Class of 1857 (A.B.) and 1860 (A.M.)

Davis enlisted in the Charlottesville (VA) Light Artillery on March 20, 1862. He was promoted to corporal on April 30, 1863 and then to sergeant major a month later on June 1, 1863. he was taken prisoner on May 12, 1864 at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, held at Fort Delaware, and paroled on October 31, 1864. He rejoined his unit in December 1864, but was transferred to the Veteran Reserve, or Invalid, Corps' Topographical Engineer Department in February 1865. 

Davis was a teacher in Westmoreland County in 1870.  He became a Methodist minister in 1876 and served several circuits in Virginia, finally settling back in Westmoreland County, where the 1910 census lists him as "Preacher of Gospel" and where he died in 1912 and is buried in the Hickory Hill Cemetery.

Thomas Tscharner DeGraffenried(t), student 1849-1850

At the beginning of the war, DeGraffenried (variantly spelled "DeGraffenriedt") was a physician residing in Texas, where he and his brother William G. DeGraffenried, also a doctor, had moved ca. 1855.  He enlisted at Columbus TX  as a private in Co. B of the 5th Texas Infantry ("Echo Company") on July 10, 1861. The company arrived in Richmond, VA in September 17, 1862. The company saw significant action in the summer of 1862 before DeGraffenried was sent back to Texas where he served as a hospital nurse from September 1862-December 1863. He returned to Virginia, where he was hospitalized himself for much of 1864 before being assigned as  brigade dentist in November 1864.

He surrendered with 8 other remaining soldiers from his company at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865 and was paroled. Dr. DeGraffenried returned to Columbus, TX and practiced dentistry, discontinuing his practice shrotly before his death on August 15, 1875 due to consumption and tongue cancer. He is buried in Clear Creek Cemetery in Colorado County, TX.

John William Hutcheson, student 1846-1850

John William Hutcheson, brother of Joseph Chappell Hutcheson, enlisted as captain of the "Grimes County Greys," later Company G of the 4th Texas Infantry on July 19, 1861. Hutcheson was mortally wounded on June 27, 1861, leading his unit at the Battle of Gaines' Mill (also known as the First Battle of Cold Harbor or the Battle of Chickahominy River), part of the Seven Days Battles in the Peninsula Campaign in Virginia. He died in Richmond, VA two days later on June 29, 1862 and was buried in the family cemetery, the Charles S. Hutcheson Cemetery, also known as the Hutcheson-Riddick Family Cemetery, in Mecklenburg, County, VA.

Prior to the war, Hutcheson received a law degree at the University of Virginia in 1852, then moved to Texas in 1853, where he practiced law. He was a member of the Succession Convention responsible for passing Texas' Ordinance of Secession on February 1, 1861.

Robert Augustus Armistead, student 1852-1853

Robert Armistead, brother of George Wesley Armistead, enlisted in Confederate service on April 4, 1861 at Richmond Virginia as a private. Serving in the "1st" company of the Virginia Howitzers, Light Artillery, he was twice promoted, first to corporal within a month of his enlistment and then to 2nd Lieutenant in November, 1861. Robert Armistead survived the War and died in 1894.

George Wesley Armistead, class of 1857 (A. B.) and 1860 (A.M.)

George Armistead served in the "4th" company of the Virginia Howitzers, Light Artillery (his brother, Robert Augustus Armistead, served in the "1st" company). In 1863 he transferred into the Surry Light Artillery. In November 1863, he reenlisted as Acting Master in the Confederate Navy. George Armisted survived the war and died in 1895 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

John Cowper Granbery, class of 1848 A.B.; 1869 A.M.

John Cowper Granbery enlisted in Confederate service on July 4, 1861 as Chaplain of the 11th Virginia Infantry. He was captured on June 28, 1862 at Mechanicsville, Virginia and was later exchanged on July 15. he lost the sight in one eye from his wound during the Seven Days' Battles. Granbery was known as one of the  "Fighting Chaplains."

After the war, Granbery taught at Vanderbilt University. In 1882, he was elected Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.  He went to Brazil in the 1880s, where he organized the Brazil Mission Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He returned to the U.S., retiring to Ashland, VA, near Randolph-Macon College.

Edward Archibald Allen, student 1861-1862

Edward Archibald Allen enlisted in Company C of the 13th Virginia Cavalry as a private.  After the war, Allen attended the University of Virginia, graduating in 1868. He was an English professor at the University of Missouri for 25 years and published extensively on grammar and other topics. He died in 1922 and is buried in Suffolk, VA, in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Algernon F. Grizzard, student 1860-1861

Algernon F. Grizzard joined the 16th Virginia Infantry, Company E, on July 11, 1861 as a private. Grizzard was discahrged for disability on October 30, 1861 due to pulmonary disease.  He re-entered his unit on December 15, 1861, but was hospitalized October 29, 1862 at Camp Winder Hospital in Richmond. He died December 30, 1862.

Littleton W. Godfrey, student 1852-1853

Littleton W. Godfrey, who is recorded as owning over a hundred slaves in the 1860 slave cansus, enlisted on April 22, 1861 as a private in the 41st VA Infantry, Co. F. He was promoted to corporal in July, 1861, and later to 2nd lieutenant. Godfrey transferred to Co. E of the 7th VA Battalion on Decemnber 15, 1861, and then transferred to the 61st VA Infantry, Co. E (the "Border Rifles") on August 8, 1862.  Godfrey was wounded at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, and was hospitalized twice in 1864 in Richmond, once for sunstroke and once for fever. He mustered out on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox Court House.

Ashland C. Gale, student 1861-1862

Ashland C. Gale, a Norfolk native, served in Captain Taylor's Company, Virginia Volunteers, known as the "Young Guards." Service is also recorded in the James City Light Artillery and the 4th Bn. Local Defense Infantry.  He was a private in Richardson's company of the James City Artillery when he was taken prisoner at the end of the war and released in June, 1865. After the war, Gale was a clerk and bookkeeper in family member's businesses through the 1890s. The 1900 census lists him as a patient at the Virginia Southwestern State Hospital, an asylum for the mentally ill.