This is a memorial inscription. He is buried elsewhere.
St. George, the son of a Congressman and Cabinet Secretary, studied as a teenager in France and Germany. He returned to the United States and enlisted at Hicksford, Virginia as a Private in Company F, 12th Virginia Infantry on 1 September 1862. He transferred to Company H, 13th Virginia Cavalry in the Spring of 1863, and was wounded in the right thigh at Hanovertown, Pennsylvania on 30 June 1863 during the Gettysburg Campaign. The wound was set badly, and that leg ended up shorter than the other.
He was enrolled at V.M.I. in 1864-65, and also served as a courier for Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton in that time. He was paroled 29 April 1865 at Greensboro, North Carolina.
After the War, he sought further military service, and disdaining to live in a Yankee-dominated United States accepted a commission in the French Foreign Legion. He was assigned to Algeria, where he commanded a "hard set" of "real adventurers".
He became a French citizen in 1874, and married Emmeline de Fay in 1879. They had at least one child, St. George Lucien Mason.
He died of dysentery while commanding his regiment near Tonkin, then part of China but now in Vietnam. The marker relates he is buried there, but VMI records state he is buried in Algeria. His parents and other family members are buried in this plot.
St. George, the son of a Congressman and Cabinet Secretary, studied as a teenager in France and Germany. He returned to the United States and enlisted at Hicksford, Virginia as a Private in Company F, 12th Virginia Infantry on 1 September 1862. He transferred to Company H, 13th Virginia Cavalry in the Spring of 1863, and was wounded in the right thigh at Hanovertown, Pennsylvania on 30 June 1863 during the Gettysburg Campaign. The wound was set badly, and that leg ended up shorter than the other.
He was enrolled at V.M.I. in 1864-65, and also served as a courier for Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton in that time. He was paroled 29 April 1865 at Greensboro, North Carolina.
After the War, he sought further military service, and disdaining to live in a Yankee-dominated United States accepted a commission in the French Foreign Legion. He was assigned to Algeria, where he commanded a "hard set" of "real adventurers".
He became a French citizen in 1874, and married Emmeline de Fay in 1879. They had at least one child, St. George Lucien Mason.
He died of dysentery while commanding his regiment near Tonkin, then part of China but now in Vietnam. The marker relates he is buried there, but VMI records state he is buried in Algeria. His parents and other family members are buried in this plot.
This is a memorial inscription. He is buried elsewhere.
St. George, the son of a Congressman and Cabinet Secretary, studied as a teenager in France and Germany. He returned to the United States and enlisted at Hicksford, Virginia as a Private in Company F, 12th Virginia Infantry on 1 September 1862. He transferred to Company H, 13th Virginia Cavalry in the Spring of 1863, and was wounded in the right thigh at Hanovertown, Pennsylvania on 30 June 1863 during the Gettysburg Campaign. The wound was set badly, and that leg ended up shorter than the other.
He was enrolled at V.M.I. in 1864-65, and also served as a courier for Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton in that time. He was paroled 29 April 1865 at Greensboro, North Carolina.
After the War, he sought further military service, and disdaining to live in a Yankee-dominated United States accepted a commission in the French Foreign Legion. He was assigned to Algeria, where he commanded a "hard set" of "real adventurers".
He became a French citizen in 1874, and married Emmeline de Fay in 1879. They had at least one child, St. George Lucien Mason.
He died of dysentery while commanding his regiment near Tonkin, then part of China but now in Vietnam. The marker relates he is buried there, but VMI records state he is buried in Algeria. His parents and other family members are buried in this plot.
St. George, the son of a Congressman and Cabinet Secretary, studied as a teenager in France and Germany. He returned to the United States and enlisted at Hicksford, Virginia as a Private in Company F, 12th Virginia Infantry on 1 September 1862. He transferred to Company H, 13th Virginia Cavalry in the Spring of 1863, and was wounded in the right thigh at Hanovertown, Pennsylvania on 30 June 1863 during the Gettysburg Campaign. The wound was set badly, and that leg ended up shorter than the other.
He was enrolled at V.M.I. in 1864-65, and also served as a courier for Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton in that time. He was paroled 29 April 1865 at Greensboro, North Carolina.
After the War, he sought further military service, and disdaining to live in a Yankee-dominated United States accepted a commission in the French Foreign Legion. He was assigned to Algeria, where he commanded a "hard set" of "real adventurers".
He became a French citizen in 1874, and married Emmeline de Fay in 1879. They had at least one child, St. George Lucien Mason.
He died of dysentery while commanding his regiment near Tonkin, then part of China but now in Vietnam. The marker relates he is buried there, but VMI records state he is buried in Algeria. His parents and other family members are buried in this plot.
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HE LIVED AND DIED FOR HONOUR AND DUTY
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