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Lancelot Minor Blackford enlisted in the Virginia Rockbridge 1st Light Artillery on 9-2-61 and was later promoted to 24th VA Infantry Field & Staff as adjutant. He was a graduate of UVA and post-war was principal of the Episcopal High School, Alexandria, Virginia, sometimes visited by Jefferson Davis.
His wife Eliza Chew Ambler was a granddaughter of U.S. Congressman and Virginia state senator James Murray Mason, Confederate envoy to Britain and France.
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Lancelot Minor Blackford enlisted in the Virginia Rockbridge 1st Light Artillery on 9-2-61 and was later promoted to 24th VA Infantry Field & Staff as adjutant. He was a graduate of UVA and post-war was principal of the Episcopal High School, Alexandria, Virginia, sometimes visited by Jefferson Davis.
His wife Eliza Chew Ambler was a granddaughter of U.S. Congressman and Virginia state senator James Murray Mason, Confederate envoy to Britain and France.
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