Robert Whiting, student 1862-1863

Whiting was conscripted into the Confederate army, serving in an unknown capacity, and surrendered at Lynchburg, VA on April 14, 1865.

In 1871, he was a telegraph operator in Petersburg, VA. Whiting graduated  from the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, VA On March 1, 1875 and was commissioned in the U.S. Navy as an Assistant Surgeon. On December 17, 1878 he became Passed Assistant Surgeon, and he was promoted to Surgeon on December 15, 1891. Whiting retired due to disability in February 1897, and he died on March 5, 1897. He is buried in Asheville, NC in Riverside Cemetery. The Whiting River and Whiting Point in Alaska were named for him in 1888 while he served on a ship during an exploration voyage.

Jesse C. Mundy, student 1859-1861

Mundy, son of a wealthy farmer from Amherst County, VA, enlisted as a private in Co. A of the 11th VA Infantry on July 16, 1861. He was absent due to illness in early 1862. No further record has been found and his fate is unknown.

Thomas M. Crowder, student 1849-1850

After leaving R-MC, Crowder attended the University of Virginia from 1850-1853. In September of 1853, Crowder became editor of the Daily Southern Argus, a newspaper in Norfolk, VA, which he ran until May 1, 1855 . Sometime after this, he moved to Brunswick, MO, where he became a teacher and principal in Bluff High School, a school which he founded. Crowder served as 2nd lieutenant in the 3rd Infantry of the Missouri Confederate Volunteers.  In a history of the 1st and 2nd  Missouri Confederate brigades published in 1878, Crowder is listed as "died in Chariton Co. since war."

Robert Jefferson Jones, student 1857-1858

Jones, from Person County, NC, enlisted as a private on July 30, 1861 in Co. D of the 13th NC Infantry. He was taken prisoner on September 15, 1862 at Williamsport, MD and sent to the prison camp at Fort Delaware, DE. He was sent to Aiken's Landing, VA for exchange on October 2, 1862 and granted a medical furlough. Jones was wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville, VA on May 1, 1863. He was paroled on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox Court House, VA.

After the war, he returned to Person County, NC. By 1880, he had moved to Pittsylvania County, VA. Jones died September 15, 1902 in Danville, VA. He is buried in Danville's Highland Burial Park.

James B. Young Jones, student 1850-1851

Jones, who appears in the R-MC matriculation record and the 1850 census as James B. Jones and later goes by James Y(oung) Jones (he was referred to by a former family slave and children's nurse as "Little Mass' Batt"), graduated in 1855 from Jefferson Medical College in Pennsylvania but did not practice medicine. In the late-1850s he visited Europe attempting unsuccessfully  to obtain a military commission in the French army during the Franco-Austrian War of 1859. At the start of the Civil War, Jones raised a company and became its captain, Co. E of the 1st Battalion VA Infantry, also known as the Irish Brigade. In February 1862, he was absent on sick leave. Jones was wounded in the face with both of his eyes and the bridge of his nose shot away on March 23, 1862 during the First Battle of Kernstown, VA, the first engagement in which his company was involved. He was left on the field and taken captive, dying in a Union field hospital in Winchester, VA on March 25, 1862. Jones was buried in Winchester, VA in Stonewall Confederate Cemetery. 

Atwell C. Jones, student 1850-1851

Jones was a farmer in Buckingham County, VA when he enlisted in 1862 in Co. E of the 3rd Regiment VA Light Artillery, regiment that was dissolved and the men reallocated to different regiments. It is likely he served in local defense. Although records of his service do not appear to have survived, his 1902 application for a pension and his widow's 1909 pension application both state that he served 3 years in Captain Henry Spencer's company until surrendering in Richmond, VA. The applications are supported by prominent citizens in Buckingham County, VA and by the local Confederate veterans organization.

He returned to farming in Buckingham County, VA after the war. Jones died in September, 1908.

Samuel Nicholson, student 1847-1848

NIcholson graduated from the Medical Department of Hampden-Sydney College (later the Medical College of Virginia) in 1851. He enlisted as 2nd lieutenant in Co. I of the 12th Virginia on February 22, 1862. Dr. Nicholson was court-martialed on February 23, 1863 for being AWOL  and allowed to resign his commission, stating that he had a frail constitution and had been ill from consumption and jaundice, and also that he was needed to care for his siblings and his deceased father's property. these reasons were not accepted; however, his offer to enroll a replacement allowed him to resign, and he furnished a substitute in March 1863.

After the war, he resided in Brunswick County, VA and Sussex County, VA, where he died in his native
Wakefield, VA on July 17, 1906.

Thomas Benjamin Moore Perkins, student 1856-1857

Perkins was a farmer in Nelson County, VA before the war. he enlisted as a private in Co. H of the 49th VA Infantry in June 1864. He was taken prisoner on March 25, 1865 during the Battle of Fort Stedman near Petersburg, VA and sent to the prison camp at Point Lookout, MD. Perkins was released on June 16, 1865 after taking the oath of allegiance.

He returned to Nelson County, VA, where he returned to farming and was a prominent citizen until his death in January 1913. In 1872, he was assistant principal in the Elmington Military and Classical School. He later served as postmaster, justice of the peace and magistrate in Nelson County. He is reported to be buried in the churchyard of Elmington Methodist Church in Nelson County, VA.

Algernon Epes Campbell, student 1845-1846

Campbell, who graduated from the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA in 1851, was a physician and weathy farmer in Nottoway, VA at the beginning of the war. Although he did not serve in the military, he was appointed in November 1859 to enlist volunteers for the county militia companies. Additionally, in November 1861, he was appointed as Nottoway County's Collector of Confederate War Tax. A July 1, 1864 article in the Richmond Examiner states that during a Yankee raid, Algernon Campbell's home in Nottoway County was plundered and everything taken. He apparently did not recover financially; in 1865, the family plantation home, Blendon, passed out of Campbell's hands. In an 1868 lawsuit, his wife indicated Campbell was "insolvent and has made no provision whatever for the maintenance of your complainant and her children three in number."  Campbell died on January 4, 1870.

Edwin Lyell, student 1849-1850

Lyell was a farmer in Richmond County, VA when he enlisted on September 23, 1861 as a private in Co. C of the 41st VA Infantry. He was discharged shortly afterwards by the medical board due to "feeble health" and exempted from further service.

Lyell returned to farming in Richmond County, VA where he died on Decemebr 12, 1907. He is buried in Richmond County, VA in the cemetery at Calvary United Methodist Church.