John T. Humphreys, Class of 1859

Humphreys was in Europe when the war began, studying the natural sciences in Oxford, Madrid, and Berlin, where he earned a Ph.D. at the University of Berlin prior to returning to the C.S.A. Humphreys enlisted as a private in Co. C of the 12th N.C. Infantry in March, 1864. He was wounded in the face during the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse on May 19, 1864, fracturing his some of his facial bones. He was discharged due to disability on February 14, 1865 as his wound left him "unable to eat camp rations." He was paroled on April 15, 1865 in Lynchburg, VA.

After the war, he was acknowledged as an expert in the study of lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) and also published geological studies of North Carolina. He died in 1882 due in part to the effects of his war wounds.

John L. Johnson, Class of 1859

Johnson, a native of Mecklenburg County, VA, graduated from Randolph-Macon College in 1859.  The 1860 census shows him as living in Mecklenburg County in his father's household but lists no occupation. Johnson enlisted as a private in Co. F of the 14th VA Infantry on July 17, 1861. He was home on sick leave in April, 1862 and had not returned as of June 30, 1862 when he is listed as absent without leave, but had returned by August. He was promoted to 2nd lieutenant on May 17, 1863. Johnson was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1863.

James C. Hanes, Class of 1855 (A.B.) and 1858(A.M.)

Hanes, younger brother of Captain Garland Hanes, was a farmer in Buckingham County, VA at the beginning of the war. He was drafted as a private into Co. A of the 57th VA Infantry on October 18, 1864. He was captured on April 1, 1865 at Five Forks, VA and sent to the prison camp at Point Lookout, MD on April 5, 1865. Hanes was released on June 13, 1865 after taking the oath of allegiance.

After the war, Hanes returned to farming in Buckingham county, where he also served for many years as superintendent of instruction for the public schools.Hanes died sometime after 1890.

John Nicholson Washington, student 1837-1838

Washington completed his education at Yale University, enrolling in January 1839. He was a lawyer  in New Bern, North Carolina in 1860. He enlisted as a private in January 1862 in Co. B, Clark's Special Battalion, North Carolina Militia, taking part in the Battle of New Bern on March 14, 1862. He relocated to Chatham County, NC where he spent the remainder of the war teaching and serving in the Chatham County Home Guard.

At the end of the war, he returned to New Bern, NC, where he was elected mayor in the summer of 1865. He left politics after serving a single term and resumed his career as a lawyer in New Bern. He died on February 14, 1869 and is buried in New Bern's Cedar Grove Cemertery.

James Albert Harrell (Harrold), student 1839-1840

Harrell adopted the spelling "Harrold" for his name.  Harrell's brother William's unpublished autobiographical notes place the two boys at R-MC in January, 1839. The Harrell brothers were dismissed from the College when they were caught with several others attending a circus in Clarksville, VA. James studied medicine with a local doctor and then attended medical school in Baltimore, MD.  He practiced medicine in North Carolina for many years  He was ordained in 1853 as an Episcopalian priest in Baltimore. He served as a chaplain and also as a surgeon in the Confederate army.

After the war, he moved to Washington, D.C. leading a number of churches there and in Maryland.  He eventually moved to Syracuse NY, where he died on July 9, 1903, shortly after relocating.

Walter Myrick, student 1858-1861

Myrick enlisted on July 15, 1861 as a private in Co. B of Waddill's Battalion VA Infantry, which later became Co. F of the 5th Battn VA Infantry.  In September 1862 he was transferred to Co. F of the 53rd VA Infantry, but as of October 31 he had still not reported to the new company and was considered AWOL. He joined the company in mid-November and by February 1863 was detailed on ambulance corps duty. He was promoted to sergeant on October 31, 1863.  Myrick was killed on September 29, 1864 at Fort Harrison, VA during the Battle of Chaffin's Farm and New Market Heights, part of the Siege of Petersburg.

Victor Moreau Brandon, Class of 1858

Brandon was a lawyer in Elizabeth City, NC in the 1860 census.  He enlisted May 8, 1861 as a private in the Camden Knights, Co. C of the 1st AR Infantry, the same company joined by Christopher Thrower, R-MC Class of 1859.  He was appointed 2nd lieutenant on July 25, 1862. Brandon was taken prisoner at Jackson, MS on May 15, 1863 and paroled at Demopolis, AL on June 5, 1863. He submitted his letter of resignation on December 1, 1863 in Abbeville, AL because he was suffering from tuberculosis, and his resignation was accepted January 11, 1864.

In 1863, he married the sister of R-MC alumni John W. Anthony and Benjamin Haden Anthony, who had married Brandon's sister, and after leaving the service resided at her family estate, Walnut Hill, near Evington, VA. Brandon died on April 28, 1866 and is believed to be buried in the Anthony Family Cemetery in Campbell County, VA

George K. Ligon, student 1859-1860

Ligon, a clerk, enlisted in Co. E of the 14th VA Infantry as a private on May 12, 1861. He was promoted to corporal on August 1, 1861. On February 2, 1862, he was detailed as a hospital steward, serving unitl he was discharged on August 15, 1862 due to the conscription act.

In 1870, Ligon was a druggist living in Hazlehurst. Mississippi.

George Feild, student 1862-1863

Feild (variantly spelled Field, Fields, Feilds) was sent to R-MC in the fall of 1862 after he was discharged for minority from Co. C of the 46th NC Infantry, which he had joined on April 16, 1862 as a private. When  the college closed in early 1863, he reenlisted in Co. C of the 46th NC Infantry in February 1863. he was hospitalized in Richmond, VA in December 1863 and April 1864 with chronic diarrhea, and again in August 1864 for an unknown ailment, and was on sick furlough from the middle of October until the middle of November 1864. He was taken prisoner at Hatcher's Run, VA on March 31, 1865 and sent to City Point, VA, from where he was sent on April 2, 1865 to the prison camp at Point Lookout, MD. He was released on June 26, 1865 after taking the oath of allegiance.

Charles Grandison Feild, Jr., student 1862-1863

Feild (name variantly spelled Feilds, Field, and Fields), son of an Okolona, Mississippi CSA officer, entered R-MC as a cadet under the military curriculum in place in the fall of 1862 after having been expelled from VMI in February, 1862 for intoxication. When R-MC closed in early 1863, he returned to Mississippi and enlisted in Co. B of the 17th MS Partisan Rangers Cavalry.

In 1870, he was residing with his widowed mother in Okolona, MS and working as a hotel clerk in his mother's hotel. By 1900, he was a salesman in Yazoo City, MS. He died in Yazoo City on November 18, 1903.