Olive Branch Morgan, student 1861-1862

Morgan enlisted as a private  in Co. C of the Lunenburg Artillery on October 1, 1862.He was promoted to sergeant major in October 1863 and was on detached service. He was wounded in the left wrist at the Battle of Sailor's Creek, VA on April 6, 1865 and captured. He was paroled on April 14, 1865 in Burkeville, VA.

Morgan lived in Petersburg, VA after the war, working as a bookkeeper in 1870 and as a merchant in 1880. By 1900 he had moved to Richmond, VA, where he was a manager for a chemical company. Morgan died December 24, 1934 and he is buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, VA.

William Frederick Hobbs, student 1862-1863

Hobbs enlisted in July 1863 in Co. D of the 8th VA Cavalry, Captain Dearing's company which later became Co. I of the 24th VA Cavalry. He was appointed corporal in February 1864. He ws promoted to sergeant in August 1864. He was captured at Amelia Court House, VA on April 6, 1865 and sent to the prison camp at Point Lookout, MD, from which he was released on June 13, 1865.

After the war, Hobbs lived in Greensville County, VA and engaged in farming for many years.  His 1917 application for a pension list his occupation as collector for a furniture company. By 1920, he was living in Norfolk, VA and he was still alive in Norfolk in 1930.

William Arthur Wheatley, student 1858-1861

Wheatley, from Memphis, TN, enlisted as a private in Co. E of the 13th VA Infantry on June 20, 1861.  The company was disbanded and he was discharged in November 1861. On March 25, 1862 he was in Memphis and enlisted as a sergeant in the 17th Battalion TN Cavalry. Late in the war, he provided a substitute and traveled to Louisiana to attend to plantation business, where he rejoined the army as a private in Co. A of the 3rd LA Infantry on an unknown date. He was paroled in Shreveport, LA on April 15, 1865.

He returned to Memphis after the war where he was involved in real estate.He died May 11, 1901 and is buried in Memphis, TN in Elmwood Cemetery.

Thomas Collins Wheelwright, student 1859-1860

Wheelwright enlisted as a private in Co. C of the 9th VA Cavalry on May 25, 1861.  He was paroled at Bowling Green, Va on May 4, 1865. The regiment history, written by Richard L. T. Beale and published in 1899, states that he was wounded during the war but does not indicate when or where.  His fate after his parole is unknown.

John Nicholas Tapscott, student 1859-1860

Tapscott enlisted in Co. E of the 20th VA Infantry on May 20, 1861 as a private for one year. On December 10, 1862 he enlisted as a private in Co. K of the 4th VA Cavalry.

After the war, he returned home to Buckingham County, VA where he was a farmer in 1870 and 1880.  At the time of his death on October 29, 1895 he was a school teacher.

Beverly Woodson, student 1862-1863

Woodson enlisted in Captain Allen's Company of the Lunenburg (VA) Light Artillery as a private on January 19, 1864. He was absent without leave in late 1864, but had returned to the company by early 1865. He was paroled at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.

After the war, he returned to Lunenburg County, VA and was a farmer. By 1910, he was living in the Confederate Soldiers Home in Richmond, VA and was still there in 1920.

Charles C. Wimbish, student 1860-1861

Wimbish enlisted as a private in Co. A of the 3rd VA Cavalry on May 14, 1861. He was absent from the company due to illness for several months from December 1861-March 1862 in Williamsburg, VA and again in May 1862 in Farmville, VA for diarrhea and was listed in October 1862 as deserted. He returned to his company and was hospitalized in Richmond, VA in late November 1863 for chronic diarrhea. He was wounded in the right thigh at the Battle of Trevilian Station, VA on June 11, 1864 and hospitalized in Charlottesville, VA from June 13-June 23, 1864. In january 1865, he was hospitalized once more in Charlottesville, this time for rheumatism.

After the war, he returned to Mecklenburg County, VA where he was a farmer in 1870. He is reported to have died in 1875.

Henry D. Milam, Class of 1853

Milam, a merchant in Warren County, NC in 1860, enlisted in Co. B of the 30th NC Infantry on August 16, 1861. He was discharged September 20, 1861 for reasons unknown. He was conscripted into Mallett's Battalion for quartermaster duty at some point later, and was released from duty as an agent due to general disability on March 14, 1865.


Milam spent the remainder of his life in Warren County, NC as a manager of farms, a miller and farmer. He died sometime after 1900.

James E. Keegan, student 1851-1852

Keegan enlisted on March 22, 1862 as a private in Co. K of the 27th LA Infantry. He was promoted to sergeant September 1, 1862. He was captured at Vicksburg, MS on July 4, 1863 and exchanged at Shreveport, LA on September 1, 1864.

Keegan was a farmer in Nagitoches, LA after the war. He was a hotel keeper by 1900 and by 1910 he has his "own income." He died December 24, 1919 and is buried in Robeline Cemetery in Nagitoches, LA.

D'Arcy Wentworth Paul, Jr., student 1839-1840

Paul, a merchant in 1850 and a merchandise broker in 1860 in Petersburg, VA and son of longtime R-MC trustee D'Arcy Paul, enlisted as a private in Co. K of the 12th VA Infantry. He was immediately promoted to first lieutenant on May 1, 1862.

He died January 20, 1863, when he was killed by a falling tree in camp near Fredericksburg, VA by the Rappahannock River at U.S. Ford. He is buried in Petersburg, VA in Blandford Cemetery.