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Pvt Lancelot Minor Blackford

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Pvt Lancelot Minor Blackford Veteran

Birth
Fredericksburg City, Virginia, USA
Death
23 May 1914 (aged 77)
Alexandria City, Virginia, USA
Burial
Alexandria, Alexandria City, Virginia, USA GPS-Latitude: 38.8179591, Longitude: -77.0748778
Memorial ID
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Pvt.,Co.B,1st Rockbridge(Va.)Arty.;Adjutant,24th Va.Inf.Regt.-CSA
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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.
Pvt.,Co.B,1st Rockbridge(Va.)Arty.;Adjutant,24th Va.Inf.Regt.-CSA
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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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