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Capt Dabney Carr Harrison

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Capt Dabney Carr Harrison

Birth
Albemarle County, Virginia, USA
Death
16 Feb 1862 (aged 31)
Tennessee, USA
Burial
Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee, USA Add to Map
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Dabney Carr Harrison was educated at Princeton College (N.J.), Class of 1848, the University of Virginia Law School, and the Union Seminary (Va.). He had been a lawyer, then a minister (Presbyterian), before the War Between the States. During the war, he was Captain of Company K, 56th Regiment Virginia Infantry. At the battle of Fort Donelson, Tennessee, he was wounded in his temple by a musket ball, and mortally wounded through his right lung, by another musket ball. Before he died, he said: "Company K, you have no Captain now; but never give up! never surrender!" Source: The University Memorial - Biographical Sketches of Alumni of the University of Virginia Who Fell in the Confederate War by Rev. John Lipscomb Johnson (Baltimore, 1871), pp. 83-93. (bio. by Leon Basile.)

He married Sally Pendleton Buchanan, daughter of Thomas Elie Buchanan and Ann Spottswood Dandridge of Washington, Maryland.
Dabney Carr Harrison was educated at Princeton College (N.J.), Class of 1848, the University of Virginia Law School, and the Union Seminary (Va.). He had been a lawyer, then a minister (Presbyterian), before the War Between the States. During the war, he was Captain of Company K, 56th Regiment Virginia Infantry. At the battle of Fort Donelson, Tennessee, he was wounded in his temple by a musket ball, and mortally wounded through his right lung, by another musket ball. Before he died, he said: "Company K, you have no Captain now; but never give up! never surrender!" Source: The University Memorial - Biographical Sketches of Alumni of the University of Virginia Who Fell in the Confederate War by Rev. John Lipscomb Johnson (Baltimore, 1871), pp. 83-93. (bio. by Leon Basile.)

He married Sally Pendleton Buchanan, daughter of Thomas Elie Buchanan and Ann Spottswood Dandridge of Washington, Maryland.

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