CSA-Co.F 1 Va.Res.
Married Mary Lily Cook 22 April 1874.
Children: Mary 1876 and Kitty 1883.
--
Robert Walton was born April 12, 1847, in Nottoway County, Virginia.
He was the son of Rev. Thomas White Sydnor and Blanch Walton
McClanahan Syddnor
At seventeen years of age he entered the army as a commissioned officer and was soon placed in the command of his company as a part of the reserve corps.
* This is from the recollections of Captain Sydnor concerning the train wreck
in Halifax County Virginia. The book was written by his brother T. L Sydnor
in 1924 titled Living Epistles (The Old Guard).
" I reached home from the Confederate army on April 16, 1865. My Company of boys, 17 years old, were stationed at Staunton River Bridge on
Richmond and Danville railroad about fifty miles east of Danville, Va.,with the 1ST Reg. Va. Reserves, commanded by Col. B. L Farinholt, who was in charge of the forces who repulsed the famous Wilson raid of 1664, and thus
saved the bridge.
When Richmond city was evacuated April 2, 1865,our command was ordered from Staunton River to Danville in great haste. We loaded a freight train and started. Behind was a train from Richmond on which were President
Davis and staff. Soon after leaving camp our train was wrecked. One of the box cars was filled with sick and wounded Georgia soldiers from the hospital in Richmond. In the wreck five or six men were killed and mangled beyond
recognition. We hastily took up their bodies on the door of the car and buried
them near the railroad. Their names were not known. The spot where they lie was visited by me, a short time ago"
By Ginger Gentry
Married Mary Lily Cook 22 April 1874.
Children: Mary 1876 and Kitty 1883.
--
Robert Walton was born April 12, 1847, in Nottoway County, Virginia.
He was the son of Rev. Thomas White Sydnor and Blanch Walton
McClanahan Syddnor
At seventeen years of age he entered the army as a commissioned officer and was soon placed in the command of his company as a part of the reserve corps.
* This is from the recollections of Captain Sydnor concerning the train wreck
in Halifax County Virginia. The book was written by his brother T. L Sydnor
in 1924 titled Living Epistles (The Old Guard).
" I reached home from the Confederate army on April 16, 1865. My Company of boys, 17 years old, were stationed at Staunton River Bridge on
Richmond and Danville railroad about fifty miles east of Danville, Va.,with the 1ST Reg. Va. Reserves, commanded by Col. B. L Farinholt, who was in charge of the forces who repulsed the famous Wilson raid of 1664, and thus
saved the bridge.
When Richmond city was evacuated April 2, 1865,our command was ordered from Staunton River to Danville in great haste. We loaded a freight train and started. Behind was a train from Richmond on which were President
Davis and staff. Soon after leaving camp our train was wrecked. One of the box cars was filled with sick and wounded Georgia soldiers from the hospital in Richmond. In the wreck five or six men were killed and mangled beyond
recognition. We hastily took up their bodies on the door of the car and buried
them near the railroad. Their names were not known. The spot where they lie was visited by me, a short time ago"
By Ginger Gentry
CSA-Co.F 1 Va.Res.
Married Mary Lily Cook 22 April 1874.
Children: Mary 1876 and Kitty 1883.
--
Robert Walton was born April 12, 1847, in Nottoway County, Virginia.
He was the son of Rev. Thomas White Sydnor and Blanch Walton
McClanahan Syddnor
At seventeen years of age he entered the army as a commissioned officer and was soon placed in the command of his company as a part of the reserve corps.
* This is from the recollections of Captain Sydnor concerning the train wreck
in Halifax County Virginia. The book was written by his brother T. L Sydnor
in 1924 titled Living Epistles (The Old Guard).
" I reached home from the Confederate army on April 16, 1865. My Company of boys, 17 years old, were stationed at Staunton River Bridge on
Richmond and Danville railroad about fifty miles east of Danville, Va.,with the 1ST Reg. Va. Reserves, commanded by Col. B. L Farinholt, who was in charge of the forces who repulsed the famous Wilson raid of 1664, and thus
saved the bridge.
When Richmond city was evacuated April 2, 1865,our command was ordered from Staunton River to Danville in great haste. We loaded a freight train and started. Behind was a train from Richmond on which were President
Davis and staff. Soon after leaving camp our train was wrecked. One of the box cars was filled with sick and wounded Georgia soldiers from the hospital in Richmond. In the wreck five or six men were killed and mangled beyond
recognition. We hastily took up their bodies on the door of the car and buried
them near the railroad. Their names were not known. The spot where they lie was visited by me, a short time ago"
By Ginger Gentry
Married Mary Lily Cook 22 April 1874.
Children: Mary 1876 and Kitty 1883.
--
Robert Walton was born April 12, 1847, in Nottoway County, Virginia.
He was the son of Rev. Thomas White Sydnor and Blanch Walton
McClanahan Syddnor
At seventeen years of age he entered the army as a commissioned officer and was soon placed in the command of his company as a part of the reserve corps.
* This is from the recollections of Captain Sydnor concerning the train wreck
in Halifax County Virginia. The book was written by his brother T. L Sydnor
in 1924 titled Living Epistles (The Old Guard).
" I reached home from the Confederate army on April 16, 1865. My Company of boys, 17 years old, were stationed at Staunton River Bridge on
Richmond and Danville railroad about fifty miles east of Danville, Va.,with the 1ST Reg. Va. Reserves, commanded by Col. B. L Farinholt, who was in charge of the forces who repulsed the famous Wilson raid of 1664, and thus
saved the bridge.
When Richmond city was evacuated April 2, 1865,our command was ordered from Staunton River to Danville in great haste. We loaded a freight train and started. Behind was a train from Richmond on which were President
Davis and staff. Soon after leaving camp our train was wrecked. One of the box cars was filled with sick and wounded Georgia soldiers from the hospital in Richmond. In the wreck five or six men were killed and mangled beyond
recognition. We hastily took up their bodies on the door of the car and buried
them near the railroad. Their names were not known. The spot where they lie was visited by me, a short time ago"
By Ginger Gentry
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