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Brockenbrough, John White b. December 23, 1806 d. February 20, 1877
CSA Congressman, Educator. He was the founder of Washington and Lee Law School, and established the Lexington Law School in 1849. He became Judge of the United States District Court for Western District of Virginia, serving from 1846 to 1860, then served during the Civil War as a member of the Confederate Congress from 1861 to 1865. (Bio by: Mr. Denardo)
Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
Plot: marker #4
Brooke, John Mercer b. December 18, 1826 d. December 14, 1906
Confederate States Naval Commander, Inventor, Professor. He was born at an army base near Tampa, Florida. He entered the United States Navy as a midshipman in 1841 and graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1847. As a result of his surveying work, he invented a deep-sea sounding apparatus for mapping the ocean bottom. Promoted to Lieutenant in 1855, he was using his invention to survey North Pacific waters when the Civil War began. Resigning his commission on April 20, 1861, he...[Read More] (Bio by: Ugaalltheway)
Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
Crozet, Claudius b. January 1, 1790 d. January 29, 1864
Educator, Civil Engineer, Born in Villefranche, France, he was educated at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. In the Napoleonic Wars, he served as a Captain in the artillery, and was a prisoner in Russia for two years following the Moscow campaign. He traveled to the United States in 1816, and, with recommendation from the Marquis de Lafayette, became assistant professor of engineering at the United States Military Academy, a postion he held from 1817 to 1823. He then served as a state engineer...[Read More] (Bio by: Garver Graver)
Virginia Military Institute Museum, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
Gilham, William b. January 31, 1818 d. November 16, 1872
Confederate officer, Civil War. Gilham was well known as the author of a popular book on military drill and tactics, and served as a Confederate Colonel during the war.
Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
Jackson, Mary Anna b. July 21, 1831 d. March 24, 1915
Author. Widow of General Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson. She wrote "Life and Letters of Stonewall Jackson" and "Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson." (Bio by: Paula Lucy Delosh)
Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
Jackson, Thomas Jonathan 'Stonewall' [body minus Arm] b. January 21, 1824 d. May 10, 1863
Civil War Confederate Lieutenant General. Born in what is now the state of West Virginia, in the town of Clarksburg to parents who unable to secure medical attention died literally as the result of extreme poverty. Orphaned, he was taken in and raised by an uncle. Desiring an education, he applied to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, realizing acceptance meant a free education. Though, ill-prepared, he applied himself and his grades improved each year resulting...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield (inactive))
Cause of death: Pneumonia
Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
Plot: Under General Jackson Statue
Junkin, George b. November 1, 1790 d. May 20, 1868
Educator. He founded Lafayette College in Easton, the University of Miami in Oxford, Ohio (known as Miami of Ohio), and served as President of Washington College from 1846 to 1861 (now the present day Washington and Lee University ) in Lexington, Virginia. He was the father of Eleanor Junkin, the first wife of Confederate Civil War General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. (Bio by: Marvin Sport)
Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
Lee, Edwin Gray b. May 27, 1836 d. August 24, 1870
Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. Born at his family's estate, Leeland, in Loudoun City, Virginia, into the Virginia Lee Family, he was a second cousin of Robert E. Lee. He was graduated from William and Mary College, then attended Washington College, (now known as Washington and Lee), where he received his law degree in 1859. His wife was Susan Pendleton, daughter of future Confederate General William N. Pendleton. He entered Confederate service in April 1861 as a 2nd Lieutenant in the...[Read More] (Bio by: Ugaalltheway)
Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
Lee, Eleanor Agnes b. February 27, 1841 d. October 15, 1873
Folk Figure, Author. Called simply "Agnes," she was the third daughter and fifth child of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his wife, Mary Anna Custis Lee. Like her three sisters, she never married chiefly because the General simply could not let go of his girls. However, there was one young soldier who was determined to make Agnes his bride - but he got nowhere since the General proclaimed him too "unsettled" to take a wife. Agnes attended the Virginia Female Institute in her youth and...[Read More] (Bio by: Kathleen)
Lee Chapel Museum, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
Lee, George Washington Custis 'Custis' b. September 16, 1832 d. February 18, 1913
Civil War Confederate General. Though an accomplished man in his own right, he is better remembered as the eldest son of Robert E. Lee. Raised an 'Army brat' and thus often denied daily contact with his father, he was educated in a series of private boarding schools, lastly at the mathematics academy of Benjamin Hallowell. At 17 he received an appointment to West Point from President Zachary Taylor and at the Academy had, as did his father before him, an outstanding academic record. Custis...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Lee Chapel Museum, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
Plot: Lee Crypt in the Lee Chapel
Lee, Henry 'Light-Horse Harry' b. January 29, 1756 d. March 25, 1818
Revolutionary War Continental Army Officer, US Congressman. The father of Civil War Confederate General Robert E. Lee, his lightning raids against the British during the American Revolution earned him the nickname "Light-Horse Harry." He also wrote the famous epitaph of George Washington, "First in War, first in Peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." Born in Leesylvania, Prince William County, Virginia, he graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1773...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Lee Chapel Museum, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
Lee, Mary Anne Randolph b. October 1, 1808 d. November 5, 1873
Folk Figure, Wife of General Robert E. Lee. She was the daughter of George Washington Parke Custis & Mary Ann Randolph Fitzhugh. The Lee family lived at Arlington House, which was inherited by Mary. Unfotunately, the house was seized by the Union because Mary was handicapped & unable to pay the new tax they had installed, and the home's property was turned into a burial ground (now present-day Arlington Nat'l Cemetery) for the dead soldiers. (Bio by: Heather from VA)
Lee Chapel Museum, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
Plot: Inside a crypt in the museum
Lee, Robert Edward [original burial site] b. January 19, 1807 d. October 12, 1870
Civil War Confederate General. He is remembered for leading the Army of Northern Virginia to the brink of victory in the Civil War. Born to a Virginia family of nobility but little money, his father was Revolutionary War General, Virginia Governor, and Congressman Light Horse Harry Lee, his mother was Ann Hill Carter Lee of the distinguished Carter family, and his Lee collateral relatives included two signers of the Declaration of Independence. By the time young Robert arrived his father's...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Lee Chapel Museum, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
Lee, Robert Edward b. January 19, 1807 d. October 12, 1870
Civil War Confederate General. He is remembered for leading the Army of Northern Virginia to the brink of victory in the Civil War. Born to a Virginia family of nobility but little money, his father was Revolutionary War General, Virginia Governor, and Congressman Light Horse Harry Lee, his mother was Ann Hill Carter Lee of the distinguished Carter family, and his Lee collateral relatives included two signers of the Declaration of Independence. By the time young Robert arrived his father's...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Lee Chapel Museum, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh 'Rooney' b. May 31, 1837 d. October 15, 1891
Civil War Confederate Major General, US Congressman. He was the son of Robert E. Lee, was commissioned into the US Army in 1857 and resigned in 1859, becoming a planter. At the start of the Civil War, he was commissioned a Captain in the Confederate Cavalry and made Major in the Western Virginia Volunteers. In April 1862, he was promoted Colonel of the 9th Virginia Cavalry Regiment and participated the Antietam Campaign. He was promoted Brigadier General and commanded the 3rd Cavalry Brigade at...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Lee Chapel Museum, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
Letcher, John b. March 29, 1813 d. January 25, 1884
Civil War Virginia Governor, US Congressman. Born in Lexington, Virginia, after attending Randolph-Macon and Washington College, (now Washington and Lee), he graduated from the latter in 1833 and was admitted to the bar 6 years later. He was the editor of the Democratic �Valley Star� from 1839 to 1850, and was a supporter of states rights. At the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850 to 1851, he played a major role in creating a new constitution. His popularity resulted in his being...[Read More] (Bio by: Ugaalltheway)
Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
Little Sorrel [Taxadermically Prepared Hide] b. 1850 d. 1886
Warhorse - This horse was captured from Union forces at Harpers Ferry by the Confederates and was given to Mrs Jackson the wife of General Thomas Jackson and named "Fancy." However, a much larger horse used by the General known as "Big Sorrel" proved unreliable in battle being terrified of gunfire. He commandeered the steed and conscripted him for his own use. The animal became known...[Read More] (Bio by: Find A Grave)
Virginia Military Institute Museum, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
McDowell, Charles b. June 24, 1926 d. November 5, 2010
Journalist. Writer of a nationally syndicated column for over 40 years, he will probably be better remembered as a regular panelist on the PBS series "Washington Week in Review". Raised in Lexington, Virginia, from early childhood, he graduated from Washington and Lee University and received a master's in journalism from Columbia University before joining the "Richmond Times Dispatch" in 1949. McDowell covered local stories until 1965 when he became his paper's Washington correspondent; he...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
McDowell, James b. October 13, 1795 d. August 24, 1851
Virginia Governor, US Congressman. Born in Rockbridge County, he served as Governor of Virginia from 1843 to 1846. He was then elected to represent Virginia's 11th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1846 to 1851. The county of McDowell, West Virginia is named for him. (Bio by: Janet Greentree)
Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
Moore, Andrew b. 1752 d. April 14, 1821
US Congressman, US Senator. Elected to represent Virginia's 2nd and 3rd Districts and as At-Large in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1789 to 1797, and 1803 to 1804. Also served as Member of the Virginia State Legislature, and United States Senator from 1804 to 1809. (Bio by: K)
Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA

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