Douthat's Company, Botetourt Virginia Light Artillery, Artillery Battalion, Dept. of Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee, C.S.A.
A 24 year-old farmer, he enlisted on 5/15/1861 at Buchanan, VA., and traveled 50 miles to Lynchburg, VA., where on 5/16/1861 he was mustered into Captain Joseph W. Anderson's Company "Mountain Rifles", 28th Virginia Infantry, as a Private. (This company subsequently became Company H, 28th Virginia Infantry.)
On 12/24/1861 the company was transferred into Botetourt Virginia Light Artillery as Company A.
Detailed 10/31/1862, on extra duty as Commissary Sergeant.
POW 7/4/1863 Vicksburg, MS,; Paroled 7/8/1863 there; exchanged 7/21/1863 at Enterprise, MS.; given 30-day Furlough same day.
Present on all remaining Rolls through end of war.
The Botetourt Virginia Light Artillery was organized with men from Botetourt County in May, 1861, as an infantry company. It was assigned to the 28th Regiment Virginia Infantry but in December transferred to the artillery. The unit soon moved west and was attached to the Department of East Tennessee and later the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. It contained 43 men in January, 1863, and it was the only Virginia unit to be captured at Vicksburg. After being exchanged, it served in the Department of Western Virginia and East Tennessee where it was active in various conflicts. During April, 1865, the company disbanded.
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Mr R.C. Noftsinger, a well known citizen of this county, who was living with his son-in-law, Mr W.R. Styne, near Buchanan, shot himself last Tuesday morning about 6 o'clock, inflicting a wound from the effects of which he died in a few moments.
He was sixty nine years of age, and was a Confederate soldier in the war between the States in 1861-1865.
While in service, he received a wound that seriously affected his spine from which he never fully recovered. His mind becoming also involved, he was sent to the Western Lunatic Asylum for treatment, where he remained until thought to be sufficiently recovered to allow him to return home. But within six or seven years he had to be sent back, when after being under treatment for awhile he was again released, and has not been at home for seventeen years. Instead of improving he gradually grew worse, until the trouble finally culminated in the act which ended his life.
The deceased was a son of the late Isaac Noftsinger, and a brother of Mrs J.W. Morgan of this place; was well known in the county, and universally held in high esteem. No reason can be assigned for the rash act, except that of insanity, and a general giving way of health, from long and constant suffering, in both body and mind.
His wife had already gone before him, and he leaves behind an only daughter, Mrs. Styne, and a sister, Mrs. Morgan, to mourn his unfortunate death.
He was buried on Wednesday, the 7th, 8 p.m. at the home cemetery, in the presence of many friends and neighbors. Roanoke Times November 6, 1906.
A 24 year-old farmer, he enlisted on 5/15/1861 at Buchanan, VA., and traveled 50 miles to Lynchburg, VA., where on 5/16/1861 he was mustered into Captain Joseph W. Anderson's Company "Mountain Rifles", 28th Virginia Infantry, as a Private. (This company subsequently became Company H, 28th Virginia Infantry.)
On 12/24/1861 the company was transferred into Botetourt Virginia Light Artillery as Company A.
Detailed 10/31/1862, on extra duty as Commissary Sergeant.
POW 7/4/1863 Vicksburg, MS,; Paroled 7/8/1863 there; exchanged 7/21/1863 at Enterprise, MS.; given 30-day Furlough same day.
Present on all remaining Rolls through end of war.
The Botetourt Virginia Light Artillery was organized with men from Botetourt County in May, 1861, as an infantry company. It was assigned to the 28th Regiment Virginia Infantry but in December transferred to the artillery. The unit soon moved west and was attached to the Department of East Tennessee and later the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. It contained 43 men in January, 1863, and it was the only Virginia unit to be captured at Vicksburg. After being exchanged, it served in the Department of Western Virginia and East Tennessee where it was active in various conflicts. During April, 1865, the company disbanded.
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Mr R.C. Noftsinger, a well known citizen of this county, who was living with his son-in-law, Mr W.R. Styne, near Buchanan, shot himself last Tuesday morning about 6 o'clock, inflicting a wound from the effects of which he died in a few moments.
He was sixty nine years of age, and was a Confederate soldier in the war between the States in 1861-1865.
While in service, he received a wound that seriously affected his spine from which he never fully recovered. His mind becoming also involved, he was sent to the Western Lunatic Asylum for treatment, where he remained until thought to be sufficiently recovered to allow him to return home. But within six or seven years he had to be sent back, when after being under treatment for awhile he was again released, and has not been at home for seventeen years. Instead of improving he gradually grew worse, until the trouble finally culminated in the act which ended his life.
The deceased was a son of the late Isaac Noftsinger, and a brother of Mrs J.W. Morgan of this place; was well known in the county, and universally held in high esteem. No reason can be assigned for the rash act, except that of insanity, and a general giving way of health, from long and constant suffering, in both body and mind.
His wife had already gone before him, and he leaves behind an only daughter, Mrs. Styne, and a sister, Mrs. Morgan, to mourn his unfortunate death.
He was buried on Wednesday, the 7th, 8 p.m. at the home cemetery, in the presence of many friends and neighbors. Roanoke Times November 6, 1906.
Douthat's Company, Botetourt Virginia Light Artillery, Artillery Battalion, Dept. of Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee, C.S.A.
A 24 year-old farmer, he enlisted on 5/15/1861 at Buchanan, VA., and traveled 50 miles to Lynchburg, VA., where on 5/16/1861 he was mustered into Captain Joseph W. Anderson's Company "Mountain Rifles", 28th Virginia Infantry, as a Private. (This company subsequently became Company H, 28th Virginia Infantry.)
On 12/24/1861 the company was transferred into Botetourt Virginia Light Artillery as Company A.
Detailed 10/31/1862, on extra duty as Commissary Sergeant.
POW 7/4/1863 Vicksburg, MS,; Paroled 7/8/1863 there; exchanged 7/21/1863 at Enterprise, MS.; given 30-day Furlough same day.
Present on all remaining Rolls through end of war.
The Botetourt Virginia Light Artillery was organized with men from Botetourt County in May, 1861, as an infantry company. It was assigned to the 28th Regiment Virginia Infantry but in December transferred to the artillery. The unit soon moved west and was attached to the Department of East Tennessee and later the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. It contained 43 men in January, 1863, and it was the only Virginia unit to be captured at Vicksburg. After being exchanged, it served in the Department of Western Virginia and East Tennessee where it was active in various conflicts. During April, 1865, the company disbanded.
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Mr R.C. Noftsinger, a well known citizen of this county, who was living with his son-in-law, Mr W.R. Styne, near Buchanan, shot himself last Tuesday morning about 6 o'clock, inflicting a wound from the effects of which he died in a few moments.
He was sixty nine years of age, and was a Confederate soldier in the war between the States in 1861-1865.
While in service, he received a wound that seriously affected his spine from which he never fully recovered. His mind becoming also involved, he was sent to the Western Lunatic Asylum for treatment, where he remained until thought to be sufficiently recovered to allow him to return home. But within six or seven years he had to be sent back, when after being under treatment for awhile he was again released, and has not been at home for seventeen years. Instead of improving he gradually grew worse, until the trouble finally culminated in the act which ended his life.
The deceased was a son of the late Isaac Noftsinger, and a brother of Mrs J.W. Morgan of this place; was well known in the county, and universally held in high esteem. No reason can be assigned for the rash act, except that of insanity, and a general giving way of health, from long and constant suffering, in both body and mind.
His wife had already gone before him, and he leaves behind an only daughter, Mrs. Styne, and a sister, Mrs. Morgan, to mourn his unfortunate death.
He was buried on Wednesday, the 7th, 8 p.m. at the home cemetery, in the presence of many friends and neighbors. Roanoke Times November 6, 1906.
A 24 year-old farmer, he enlisted on 5/15/1861 at Buchanan, VA., and traveled 50 miles to Lynchburg, VA., where on 5/16/1861 he was mustered into Captain Joseph W. Anderson's Company "Mountain Rifles", 28th Virginia Infantry, as a Private. (This company subsequently became Company H, 28th Virginia Infantry.)
On 12/24/1861 the company was transferred into Botetourt Virginia Light Artillery as Company A.
Detailed 10/31/1862, on extra duty as Commissary Sergeant.
POW 7/4/1863 Vicksburg, MS,; Paroled 7/8/1863 there; exchanged 7/21/1863 at Enterprise, MS.; given 30-day Furlough same day.
Present on all remaining Rolls through end of war.
The Botetourt Virginia Light Artillery was organized with men from Botetourt County in May, 1861, as an infantry company. It was assigned to the 28th Regiment Virginia Infantry but in December transferred to the artillery. The unit soon moved west and was attached to the Department of East Tennessee and later the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. It contained 43 men in January, 1863, and it was the only Virginia unit to be captured at Vicksburg. After being exchanged, it served in the Department of Western Virginia and East Tennessee where it was active in various conflicts. During April, 1865, the company disbanded.
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Mr R.C. Noftsinger, a well known citizen of this county, who was living with his son-in-law, Mr W.R. Styne, near Buchanan, shot himself last Tuesday morning about 6 o'clock, inflicting a wound from the effects of which he died in a few moments.
He was sixty nine years of age, and was a Confederate soldier in the war between the States in 1861-1865.
While in service, he received a wound that seriously affected his spine from which he never fully recovered. His mind becoming also involved, he was sent to the Western Lunatic Asylum for treatment, where he remained until thought to be sufficiently recovered to allow him to return home. But within six or seven years he had to be sent back, when after being under treatment for awhile he was again released, and has not been at home for seventeen years. Instead of improving he gradually grew worse, until the trouble finally culminated in the act which ended his life.
The deceased was a son of the late Isaac Noftsinger, and a brother of Mrs J.W. Morgan of this place; was well known in the county, and universally held in high esteem. No reason can be assigned for the rash act, except that of insanity, and a general giving way of health, from long and constant suffering, in both body and mind.
His wife had already gone before him, and he leaves behind an only daughter, Mrs. Styne, and a sister, Mrs. Morgan, to mourn his unfortunate death.
He was buried on Wednesday, the 7th, 8 p.m. at the home cemetery, in the presence of many friends and neighbors. Roanoke Times November 6, 1906.
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