William W. Garey, student 1859-1861

William W. Garey enlisted as a private in Company B of the 15th Virginia Infantry on May 14, 1861.  He was promoted on July 10, 1864 to corporal. Garey was taken prisoner at Petersburg on April 3, 1865 and sent to Point Lookout, MD, where he was released on June 12, 1865. He was the brother of Allen Thornton Garey.

Allen Thornton Garey, student 1859-1861

Allen Thornton Garey enlisted in Company A of the 3rd Virginia Cavalry, the "Boydton Cavalry" or "Mecklenburg Dragoons," on May 14, 1861 along with many of his schoolmates. Garey was taken prisoner at Williamsburg, VA on May 4, 1862 and sent to Fort Delaware, where he was released through exchange on August 5, 1862. He was the brother of William W. Garey.

In 1880 Garey was a miner living in Pima Arizona. By 1900, he had left to mine gold in California. He returned to Virginia sometime later and was admitted to the Robert E. Lee Confederate Soldier's Camp in Richmond on September 12, 1910, with the cause of admission listed as "old age and disability." He was discharged from the home on April 20, 1919, but readmitted on the day of his death, January 5, 1920. Garey is buried in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery

Jesse Talbot Bernard, student 1845-1846

Bernard, who attended the College of William & Mary after leaving Randolph-Macon College, was practicing law in Florida when he enlisted as a private in the Leon Light Florida Artillery on April 24, 1862. He was promoted to 1st Lieutenant and was assigned as Assistant Quartermaster of the 8th Florida Infantry on October 1, 1862, with a later promotion ot Captain.
After the war he was a judge, the mayor of Tallahassee, FL, and served on the state's Board of Education. He died October 29, 1909 and is buried in Tallahassee's Old City Cemetery.

James Leroy Ewell, student 1856-1857

James Leroy Ewell, older brother of John Chowning Ewell, joined the 9th Virginia Cavalry, Company D, on June 16, 1861 as sergeant. Ewell was promoted to 1st lieutenant on May 12, 1862. He was detailed as Acting Qurtermaster for his regiment on May 15, 1863, returning to his company in June of 1863.

Ewell died July 18, 1866 as a result of disease caught during the war and is buried in the family plot in the cemetery of St. Mary's Whitechapel Episcopal Church in Lancaster County, VA.

John Chowning Ewell, student 1859-1861

At the age of 18, John Chowning Ewell enlisted as a sergeant in the 47th VA Infantry, Company F, in Lancaster County VA in January, 1861. He transferred to Company D of the 9th VA Cavalry on November 11, 1862, joining his older brother, James Leroy Ewell, in the unit.  He sustained a wound to his left side at Boydton Plank Road, VA on October 27, 1864. His final rank was corporal.

After the war he returned to Lancaster County where he became a surveyor and studied law, which he began practicing in 1874. He later served as commonwealth's attorney and became a judge. he was active and prominent in the local business community and in Confederate veteran activities. Judge Ewell died August 26, 1919 and is buried at St. Mary's Whitechapel Episcopal Church in Lancaster County, VA.

Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell, Class of 1844

Gartrell was a lawyer, judge, and Georgia congressman, serving in the US House of Representatives from 1857-Jan. 1861 before he enlisted as Colonel of the 7th Georgia Infantry on May 31, 1861, a unit he organized. Gartrell led the unit at Manassas/ (Bull Run), where his 16 year old son, Henry C. Gartrell, was wounded, dying a week later. Gartrell resigned his commission on January 3, 1862 to take his elected seat in the Confederate Congress.  On August 22, 1864, he accepted a commission as Brigadier-General of the 2nd Brigade of the Georgia Reserves.  He was wounded on January 15, 1865, leading his brigade at Coosawhatchie, South Carolina while trying to halt Sherman's army on its March to the Sea. This wound disabled him and he spent the rest of the war at home in Augusta, Georgia.

After the war, he moved to Atlanta and resumed his legal and political careers. He died April 8, 1891 and is buried in Atlanta's Oakwood Cemetery.

Philander Chinn George, student 1847-1848

Philander Chinn George enlisted in Company C of the 9th Virginia Cavalry as a private on May 25, 1861. He was detailed as an ambulance dirver in April, 1862. he was taken prisoner at Amelia Couth house on April 3, 1865 and sent to Point Lookout, MD, where he was kept until he took the oath of allegiance on June 12, 1865.

George attended Dickinson College after leaving R-MC, graduating in 1850.  In 1870 he was a farmer in Westmoreland county, VA, but by1880, he was a public school teacher in Montross (Westmoreland County0, VA. According to his widow's pension application, he died July 11, 1899 of heart trouble.

Grief C. Chumney, student 1858-1860

Grief C. Chumney enlisted as a private in Co. E of the 9th VA Cavalry on June 7, 1861. From September 15, 1862 until his parole at Burkesville, VA in April 1865, he was detached to the Signal Corps.

He received a Confederate disability pension in 1900 claiming near complete disability due to "stomach troubles and from varicose veins caused by long marches which disables me from labor." Chumney is listed as a lodger or boarder with different families in Lunenberg County in the 1900 and 1910 censuses.

John W. Fitzgerald, student 1858-1859

John W. Fitzgerald enlisted as a private in Company E of the 3rd Virginia Cavalry in May of 1861 in Nottoway County, Virginia. He was captured at Williamsburg during the Peninsula Campaign, exchanged on May 4, 1862. He was promoted to corporal on July 15, 1863. He was captured again on May 8, 1864 at Spotsylvania, VA and sent to Elmira Prison Camp in New York on July 23, 1864 where he spent the remainder of the War.He was paroled on July 16, 1865

John William Anthony, student 1859-1860

John William Anthony was 19 when he enlisted on may 23, 1861 in Company B of the 11th Virginia Infantry. He was wounded at the battle of Seven Pines in 1862 and Second Manassas. He mustered out of the 11th when he furnished a substitute on February 26, 1863.  The substitute, Patrick Murry, deserted the following day.  He also saw service in Company I of the 2nd Virginia Cavalry, and was promoted to sergeant. He was wounded again April 1, 1865 and hospitalized in Petersburg with a wound to the right thigh. Anthony November 8, 1920 in Campbell County, Virginia and is buried in the Anthony Family Cemetery at Evington, VA.