Saturday, June 30, 2012

Benjamin Franklin Jarratt, student 1856-1861

Jarratt enlisted as a sergeant on May 24, 1861 in Co. A of the 41st VA Infantry. He was promoted to lieutenant on May 1, 1862. He was wounded in the leg at the Battle of Second Manassas on August 30, 1862 . He was detached for light duty in January 1863 to enroll conscripts in Sussex County, VA. Jarratt was promoted to captain on September 15, 1864. He was found not guilty in January 1865 during court-martial proceedings of a charge of being drunk on duty, and served until he surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.

Jarratt lived in Belfield in Greensville County,VA after the war where the censuses record him as a farmer. He died August 1, 1913 and is buried in the Jarratt family cemetery in Sussex County, VA.

Friday, June 29, 2012

Charles Henry Tarry (Terry), student 1856-1857

Tarry was a plantation overseer, probably for his father's holdings, in Dallas County, AL in the 1860 census.  He enlisted in Co. K of the 15th Alabama Infantry in March 1862. He died of measles in Richmond, VA on July 6, 1862 and is buried in the Confederate section of Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery under the variant spelling of his last name as Terry. No official records of his service survive.

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Samuel G. Talbott, student 1861-1862

Talbott, cousin to Allan and Charles Talbott, enlisted as a private in Co. A of the 13th VA Battalion Light Artillery on March 22, 1862. He was  hospitalized in May 1864 at Chimborazo in Richmond, VA for "morbi cutis," or a skin disease. He was paroled in Richmond, VA on April 18, 1865.

By 1880 he was a manager in a tobacco factory in Richmond. He died November 27, 1891 and is buried in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Allan Talbott, student 1859-1862

Talbott, brother of Charles H. Talbott, joined the 4th VA Battalion Local Defense Infantry on September 17, 1863, serving as lieutenant and adjutant. He was paroled in Richmond, VA on April 21, 1865.

After the war, Talbott was a mechanical engineer and machinist in Richmond, VA with the family firm as was his brother. Talbott died on June 28, 1901 and is buried in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Charles H. Talbott, student 1858-1860

Talbott, brother of Allan Talbott, enlisted as a private in Co. I of the 4th VA Cavalry on May 8, 1861.  He was discharged on October 28, 1861 by order of the Secretary of War in order to assist with the family business, Talbott & Brothers, a foundry in the Shockoe Bottom area of Richmond, VA that had been founded by his father and uncle and which had been contracted by the Ordnance Dept. The foundry, which specialized in steam engines and other machinery, was taken over by the Navy in February 1862 for the remainder of the war, becoming the CS Naval Works. In September of 1863, Talbott was recommended to serve as a drillmaster, and the recommendation indicated had been serving as such for some time.

After the war, Talbott was a mechanical engineer in Richmond, VA with the family firm. He died on April 8, 1912 and is buried in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery. his gravestone states his service as 3rd VA Cavalry 1861-1865, but the military records show otherwise.

Monday, June 25, 2012

James Robert Fleming, student 1857-1860

Fleming was a medical student in 1860. An 1889 medical directory lists his degree date of 1863 as uuverified.  Evans' Confederate Military History indicates he served as an assistant surgeon in the Army of Northern Virginia with Jubal Early's division, but gives not further details.

After the war, he was a physician in Wake County, North Carolina. Fleming died on June 23, 1899 and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Dunn, NC.

Sunday, June 24, 2012

John Martin Fleming, student 1853-1854

Fleming attended the University of N.C. after R-MC, graduating in 1859. He moved to Arkansas in 1860, where he was engaged in farming when he enlisted on June 14, 1862 as 2nd lieutenant in Co. E of the 33rd AR Infantry. In the spring of 863, he was the acting adjutant. In June of 1863, he was ill. By February 1864, he was once again ill, and in March 1864, he resigned with a surgeon's certificate of disability citing "hepatitis chronica and general physical disability" as the causes.

He returned to farming in Arkansas, moving back to his native North Carolina in 1870 where he was a farmer,  merchant, and magistrate until he was elected warden deputy warden of the state penitentiary in 1883, becoming warden in 1893. He died March 18, 1921.

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Jasper Fleming, student 1853-1854

Fleming enlisted as 3rd lieutenant in Co. C of the 13th NC Infantry on April 24, 1861. He was promoted to adjutant on June 3, 1861 and to adjutant and 1st lieutenant on December 31, 1861. Fleming resigned on December 20, 1862 due to ill health, as he had been sick from typhoid fever since the summer of 1862.

He was a merchant in Caswell County, NC after the war. Fleming died of pneumonia on February 18, 1902 at the age of 68 while attending a special dairying course at N.C. State in Raleigh, NC. he is buried in Cedars Cemetery in Milton, NC.

Friday, June 22, 2012

William W. Hereford, Class of 1841

Hereford, a physician in Pontotoc County, MS, enlisted as a private on March 2, 1861 in the 1st Battalion MS Cavalry.  He later served as a surgeon.  His fate after the war is unknown.

Thursday, June 21, 2012

John J. Tillar, student 1859-1861

John J. Tillar enlisted as sergeant on May 4, 1861 in the Greensville Guard, Co. F of the 5th Battalion VA Reserves Infantry. By May of 1862, he was  listed in pay records on the rolls and in an order from the Adjutant and Inspector General's Office as captain of the company.  He died in 1862 of unknown causes.