Confederate Officer. Henry Gantt was born in 1831, probably at the family farm, "Solitude," in Albemarle County, Virginia, and graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1851. On May 17, 1861, he was commissioned major of the 19th Virginia Infantry, promoted to lieutenant colonel on April 29, 1862, and colonel on September 14, 1862. Gantt was wounded in the hip at Second Manassas, and through the face Gettysburg. He did return to command of the 19th Virginia for a short period of time in late 1864 and early 1865 when he commanded the regiment and Hunton's Brigade (formerly Garnett's) along the Bermuda Hundred – Petersburg lines, but he was back in the hospital in March 1865 and never returned to duty.
Gantt died on October 4, 1884, while on a visit to Buckingham White Sulphur Springs, near Curdsville, Virginia. He was buried in the Gantt Family Cemetery, at his estate "Valmont," near Scottsville, Virginia. Today most of the cemetery is gone. Only a small black granite stone rest in a pasture near the present house, that reads "Henry Gantt – Colonel Company C 19th Virginia Regiment Confederate Volunteers." This stone was probably placed by the Scottsville Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in the 1920s or 1930s. Whether it actually marks the grave is unknown.
Today the original "Valmont" is gone and has been replaced. It is located on Valmont Road off Rt. 726 a mile southwest of Scottsville.
Gantt died on October 4, 1884, while on a visit to Buckingham White Sulphur Springs, near Curdsville, Virginia. He was buried in the Gantt Family Cemetery, at his estate "Valmont," near Scottsville, Virginia. Today most of the cemetery is gone. Only a small black granite stone rest in a pasture near the present house, that reads "Henry Gantt – Colonel Company C 19th Virginia Regiment Confederate Volunteers." This stone was probably placed by the Scottsville Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in the 1920s or 1930s. Whether it actually marks the grave is unknown.
Today the original "Valmont" is gone and has been replaced. It is located on Valmont Road off Rt. 726 a mile southwest of Scottsville.
Confederate Officer. Henry Gantt was born in 1831, probably at the family farm, "Solitude," in Albemarle County, Virginia, and graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1851. On May 17, 1861, he was commissioned major of the 19th Virginia Infantry, promoted to lieutenant colonel on April 29, 1862, and colonel on September 14, 1862. Gantt was wounded in the hip at Second Manassas, and through the face Gettysburg. He did return to command of the 19th Virginia for a short period of time in late 1864 and early 1865 when he commanded the regiment and Hunton's Brigade (formerly Garnett's) along the Bermuda Hundred – Petersburg lines, but he was back in the hospital in March 1865 and never returned to duty.
Gantt died on October 4, 1884, while on a visit to Buckingham White Sulphur Springs, near Curdsville, Virginia. He was buried in the Gantt Family Cemetery, at his estate "Valmont," near Scottsville, Virginia. Today most of the cemetery is gone. Only a small black granite stone rest in a pasture near the present house, that reads "Henry Gantt – Colonel Company C 19th Virginia Regiment Confederate Volunteers." This stone was probably placed by the Scottsville Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in the 1920s or 1930s. Whether it actually marks the grave is unknown.
Today the original "Valmont" is gone and has been replaced. It is located on Valmont Road off Rt. 726 a mile southwest of Scottsville.
Gantt died on October 4, 1884, while on a visit to Buckingham White Sulphur Springs, near Curdsville, Virginia. He was buried in the Gantt Family Cemetery, at his estate "Valmont," near Scottsville, Virginia. Today most of the cemetery is gone. Only a small black granite stone rest in a pasture near the present house, that reads "Henry Gantt – Colonel Company C 19th Virginia Regiment Confederate Volunteers." This stone was probably placed by the Scottsville Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in the 1920s or 1930s. Whether it actually marks the grave is unknown.
Today the original "Valmont" is gone and has been replaced. It is located on Valmont Road off Rt. 726 a mile southwest of Scottsville.
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