Major Adolphus "Dolly" Richards

Birth: May 26, 1844 Upperville Fauquier County Virginia, USA Death: Feb. 20, 1920 Louisville Jefferson County Kentucky, USA

Civil War Confederate Army Officer. Served during the Civil War as Major of 43rd Virginia Battalion Cavalry, also known as "Mosby's Rangers". Born at "Green Garden", near Upperville, Virginia, he was a student at Randolph Macon College prior to the War. After the start of the conflict, he served as a Lieutenant in the 7th Virginia Cavalry and as a staff officer prior to his joining the "Mosby's Rangers". He enlisted in Company B, 43rd Virginia Battalion Cavalry in Fauquier Co., Virginia on October 1, 1863. He was promoted to 1st Lieutenant, Company C in December 1863, to Captain April 6, 1864 and to Major December 7, 1864. He was prominent in many of the actions and battles of "Mosby's Rangers" and remained active in veteran events post war. Following the war he received his education at the University of Virginia and a law degree from the University of Louisville. Attorney and judge in Louisville, Kentucky, where he died in 1920. (bio by: Steve Dunn)

Burial: Cave Hill Cemetery Louisville Jefferson County Kentucky, USA Plot: Section G

Maintained by: Find A Grave Originally Created by: Steve Dunn Record added: Feb 09, 2003 Find A Grave Memorial# 7172702

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Adolphus E. Richards, Randolph-Macon Student 1859-1861

Adolphus E. "Dolly" Richards joined Co. B of Mosby's Partisan Rangers, the 43rd VA Cavalry Battalion, as a private. He was promoted to 1st lieutenant in Co. C on Dec. 7, 1863. Richards became captain in April 1864, and was again promoted to major on Dec. 7, 1864 for "valor and bravery." At the time of his parole in Winchester, VA on May 17, 1865, Richards was just 21 years of age.

He attended the University of Virginia and the University of Louisville after the war, and is listed in the 1870-1920 censuses as a lawyer in Louisville, KY, also serving as a judge during the 1880s and City Attorney. Richards died Feb. 20, 1920 and is buried in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville.

Richards wrote an account of his war experiences entitled Mosby's "Partizan Rangers" for the book Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War published in 1893 by The Century Co. The Richards family home in Loudoun County, VA, Greengarden Farm, was used by Mosby's Rangers as a safe house.