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7th Virginia Infantry (CSA), US Civil War Project

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Dr. (CSA), William Allen Carrington (1830 - 1866)
. Carrington was probably named for his uncle who had just passed away in 1829. He was educated at the Univ. of Virginia but chose to practice in New York until the outbreak of war when he offered his ...
1st. Lt. (CSA), Hugh Mercer Patton (1841 - 1916)
was the son of John Mercer Patton, a leading Virginia lawyer and briefly Acting Governor of Virginia in 1841. Hugh married Fannie Dade Bull in 1870; they had nine children.Hugh enlisted as a private in...
James Backus, Civil War Veteran (USA) (1822 - 1877)
DAVIS, THE SETTLERS OF SALEM, WEST VIRGINIA, by Susie Davis Nicholson, Salem, West Virginia, 1992. p. 33, 73 James Backus BIRTH 25 Apr 1822 Harrison County, West Virginia, USA DEATH 15 Jun 1877 (aged 5...
Lt. Col. Waller Tazewell Patton, CSA (1835 - 1863)
Waller Patton was a great-uncle of American World War II General, George S. Patton. Tazewell Patton (July 15, 1835 – July 21, 1863), was a professor, attorney, and an officer of the Confederate States ...
Maj. General James L. Kemper (CSA), Governor (1823 - 1895)
Lawson Kemper (June 11, 1823 – April 7, 1895) was a lawyer, a Confederate general in the American Civil War, and the 37th Governor of Virginia. He was the youngest of the brigade commanders, and the on...