Jack was the son, and last child, of Lewis B. Montague and Catherine Street Jesse. He attended Fleetwood Academy, a military school for boys in King and Queen County, Virginia before transferring to the Virginia Military Institute in 1860.
When the Civil War started in April 1861, he went to Richmond to serve as a drill master at a "camp of instruction" known as Camp Lee. He soon declined to return to VMI and instead enlisted as a Private in Company "C", 55th Virginia Infantry on 12 March 1862. He was wounded in the arm at the Battle of Gaines' Mill on 27 June 1862. The wound festered and he suffered a high fever before his death a few weeks later.
"Jack Montague...manifested in camp the same cheerful, bright disposition he had always shown; every service was performed with the greatest zeal and alacrity, and the writer well remembers how cheering his jokes were to his wearied comrades on the march.... His regiment saw quite active service in the spring of 1862...[T]he writer noticed with great admiration the coolness displayed by Jack when under...terrific fire." (George D. Nicholson, in "Biographical Sketches of the Graduates and Eleves of the Virginia Military Institute Who Fell During the War Between the States", 1875).
His grave in the Austin D. Turner plot (shown in the first photo here) is unmarked. There is a cenotaph for him in Hollywood Cemetery, which appears here. He also is listed on a family stone in Middlesex County, Virginia∼In Memory of ANDREW JACKSON MONTAGUE
July 4, 1842
July 12, 1862
Son of Lewis B. Montague and Catherine Street Montague
A VMI Cadet who enlisted in the Confederate Army. Wounded at the Battle of Gaines Mill
Died of Typhoid Fever, Richmond, VA
Believed buried at Shockhoe [sic] Hill Cemetery
When the Civil War started in April 1861, he went to Richmond to serve as a drill master at a "camp of instruction" known as Camp Lee. He soon declined to return to VMI and instead enlisted as a Private in Company "C", 55th Virginia Infantry on 12 March 1862. He was wounded in the arm at the Battle of Gaines' Mill on 27 June 1862. The wound festered and he suffered a high fever before his death a few weeks later.
"Jack Montague...manifested in camp the same cheerful, bright disposition he had always shown; every service was performed with the greatest zeal and alacrity, and the writer well remembers how cheering his jokes were to his wearied comrades on the march.... His regiment saw quite active service in the spring of 1862...[T]he writer noticed with great admiration the coolness displayed by Jack when under...terrific fire." (George D. Nicholson, in "Biographical Sketches of the Graduates and Eleves of the Virginia Military Institute Who Fell During the War Between the States", 1875).
His grave in the Austin D. Turner plot (shown in the first photo here) is unmarked. There is a cenotaph for him in Hollywood Cemetery, which appears here. He also is listed on a family stone in Middlesex County, Virginia∼In Memory of ANDREW JACKSON MONTAGUE
July 4, 1842
July 12, 1862
Son of Lewis B. Montague and Catherine Street Montague
A VMI Cadet who enlisted in the Confederate Army. Wounded at the Battle of Gaines Mill
Died of Typhoid Fever, Richmond, VA
Believed buried at Shockhoe [sic] Hill Cemetery
Jack was the son, and last child, of Lewis B. Montague and Catherine Street Jesse. He attended Fleetwood Academy, a military school for boys in King and Queen County, Virginia before transferring to the Virginia Military Institute in 1860.
When the Civil War started in April 1861, he went to Richmond to serve as a drill master at a "camp of instruction" known as Camp Lee. He soon declined to return to VMI and instead enlisted as a Private in Company "C", 55th Virginia Infantry on 12 March 1862. He was wounded in the arm at the Battle of Gaines' Mill on 27 June 1862. The wound festered and he suffered a high fever before his death a few weeks later.
"Jack Montague...manifested in camp the same cheerful, bright disposition he had always shown; every service was performed with the greatest zeal and alacrity, and the writer well remembers how cheering his jokes were to his wearied comrades on the march.... His regiment saw quite active service in the spring of 1862...[T]he writer noticed with great admiration the coolness displayed by Jack when under...terrific fire." (George D. Nicholson, in "Biographical Sketches of the Graduates and Eleves of the Virginia Military Institute Who Fell During the War Between the States", 1875).
His grave in the Austin D. Turner plot (shown in the first photo here) is unmarked. There is a cenotaph for him in Hollywood Cemetery, which appears here. He also is listed on a family stone in Middlesex County, Virginia∼In Memory of ANDREW JACKSON MONTAGUE
July 4, 1842
July 12, 1862
Son of Lewis B. Montague and Catherine Street Montague
A VMI Cadet who enlisted in the Confederate Army. Wounded at the Battle of Gaines Mill
Died of Typhoid Fever, Richmond, VA
Believed buried at Shockhoe [sic] Hill Cemetery
When the Civil War started in April 1861, he went to Richmond to serve as a drill master at a "camp of instruction" known as Camp Lee. He soon declined to return to VMI and instead enlisted as a Private in Company "C", 55th Virginia Infantry on 12 March 1862. He was wounded in the arm at the Battle of Gaines' Mill on 27 June 1862. The wound festered and he suffered a high fever before his death a few weeks later.
"Jack Montague...manifested in camp the same cheerful, bright disposition he had always shown; every service was performed with the greatest zeal and alacrity, and the writer well remembers how cheering his jokes were to his wearied comrades on the march.... His regiment saw quite active service in the spring of 1862...[T]he writer noticed with great admiration the coolness displayed by Jack when under...terrific fire." (George D. Nicholson, in "Biographical Sketches of the Graduates and Eleves of the Virginia Military Institute Who Fell During the War Between the States", 1875).
His grave in the Austin D. Turner plot (shown in the first photo here) is unmarked. There is a cenotaph for him in Hollywood Cemetery, which appears here. He also is listed on a family stone in Middlesex County, Virginia∼In Memory of ANDREW JACKSON MONTAGUE
July 4, 1842
July 12, 1862
Son of Lewis B. Montague and Catherine Street Montague
A VMI Cadet who enlisted in the Confederate Army. Wounded at the Battle of Gaines Mill
Died of Typhoid Fever, Richmond, VA
Believed buried at Shockhoe [sic] Hill Cemetery
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ANDREW JACKSON MONTAGUE
July 4, 1842
July 12, 1862
Son of
Lewis B. Montague
and Catherine Street Montague
A VMI Cadet who
enlisted in the
Confederate Army
Wounded at the
Battle of Gaines
Mill
Died of Typhoid
Fever
Richmond, VA
Believed buried
at Shockhoe
Mill Cemetery
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