Dabney, Virginius, author, b. at Elmington, Gloucester co., Va., 15 Feb., 1835. He was graduated at the University of Virginia in 1855, and practised law. But he had abandoned this profession for literature when the civil war began in 1861. He became a staff officer in the Confederate army, and served through the war. He has published "The Story of Don Miff, as told by his Friend, John Bouche Whacker, a Symphony of Life" (Philadelphia, 1886). This book reached its fourth edition in six months.
Source: Appletons' cyclopaedia of American biography, Vol. II, New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1887
Family Members
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Thomas Smith Dabney
1798–1885
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Sophia Hill Dabney
1810–1860
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Ellen Maria Heath Dabney
1837–1860
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Anna Wilson Noland Dabney
1847–1925
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Thomas Dabney
1828–1838
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Charles Dabney
1830–1853
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James Dabney
1831–1838
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Edward H. Dabney
1836–1903
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Sarah Dabney Eggleston
1838–1927
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Susan Dabney Smedes
1840–1913
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Sophia Dabney Thurmond
1842–1909
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Emmeline Dabney Greene
1844–1928
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Ben J. Dabney
1846–1910
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Thomas Smith Dabney
1850–1924
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Lelia Jacqueline Dabney
1852–1927
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Richard Heath Dabney
1860–1947
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Burr Noland Dabney
1873–1916
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Virginius Dabney
1878–1942
Flowers
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