Pvt.,2nd Rockbridge Arty.(Va.)-CSA d. disease.Suggested edit: Born in the early 1840s to Alexander and Elizabeth Miller Ingram.
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Suggested edit: MCDOWELL, THOMAS PRESTON
Died, 7th August, 1862, in camp near Gordonsville, Va., THOMAS PRESTON MCDOWELL, youngest son of the late Gov. McDowell of Virginia .
The subject of this notice was, in the beginning of this war, a resident of Texas and participated in the movement which resulted in the expulsion of the Federal troops from that State. But when Virginia, on the outposts as she was, called on her sons to protect her soil, sacred with the graves of their fathers from pollution by Northern hordes, he, with thousands of others impelled by that love of State, which, like a vestal flame seems never extinguished in the bosoms of her children, rushed to her rescue; and in his native county of Rockbridge, enrolled himself a private in an artillery company, (Capt. Licke) Gallantly and with distinguished bravery did this youthful soldier do his duty in the battles, which, under Major General Jackson, resulted in driving the invading armies from the Valley of Virginia. The combined virtues of gentleness, and that manliness composed of chivalrous feeling and undaunted courage, secured alike the devotion of his family, and the love and admiration of his comrades. If a heartfelt desire to be like Christ, and a child of God makes us so (for in a letter to his sister, he said, I hope the spirit of God is moving upon my heart, while his knapsack contained evidences of much reading on the subject of religion,) then we claim for him the title of Christian soldier, a title, in our estimation far more exalted than that, so well deserved, and given his distinguished farther of Christian Statesman.
Truly there is consolation for his bereaved wife and sisters for this great sacrifice made on their country s altar. _Richmond Enq. F. (Abingdon Virginian, Oct. 3, 1862.
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Suggested edit: MCDOWELL, THOMAS PRESTON
Died, 7th August, 1862, in camp near Gordonsville, Va., THOMAS PRESTON MCDOWELL, youngest son of the late Gov. McDowell of Virginia .
The subject of this notice was, in the beginning of this war, a resident of Texas and participated in the movement which resulted in the expulsion of the Federal troops from that State. But when Virginia, on the outposts as she was, called on her sons to protect her soil, sacred with the graves of their fathers from pollution by Northern hordes, he, with thousands of others impelled by that love of State, which, like a vestal flame seems never extinguished in the bosoms of her children, rushed to her rescue; and in his native county of Rockbridge, enrolled himself a private in an artillery company, (Capt. Licke) Gallantly and with distinguished bravery did this youthful soldier do his duty in the battles, which, under Major General Jackson, resulted in driving the invading armies from the Valley of Virginia. The combined virtues of gentleness, and that manliness composed of chivalrous feeling and undaunted courage, secured alike the devotion of his family, and the love and admiration of his comrades. If a heartfelt desire to be like Christ, and a child of God makes us so (for in a letter to his sister, he said, I hope the spirit of God is moving upon my heart, while his knapsack contained evidences of much reading on the subject of religion,) then we claim for him the title of Christian soldier, a title, in our estimation far more exalted than that, so well deserved, and given his distinguished farther of Christian Statesman.
Truly there is consolation for his bereaved wife and sisters for this great sacrifice made on their country s altar. _Richmond Enq. F. (Abingdon Virginian, Oct. 3, 1862.
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Pvt.,2nd Rockbridge Arty.(Va.)-CSA d. disease.Suggested edit: Born in the early 1840s to Alexander and Elizabeth Miller Ingram.
Contributor: Donna Harper (48960015)
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Suggested edit: MCDOWELL, THOMAS PRESTON
Died, 7th August, 1862, in camp near Gordonsville, Va., THOMAS PRESTON MCDOWELL, youngest son of the late Gov. McDowell of Virginia .
The subject of this notice was, in the beginning of this war, a resident of Texas and participated in the movement which resulted in the expulsion of the Federal troops from that State. But when Virginia, on the outposts as she was, called on her sons to protect her soil, sacred with the graves of their fathers from pollution by Northern hordes, he, with thousands of others impelled by that love of State, which, like a vestal flame seems never extinguished in the bosoms of her children, rushed to her rescue; and in his native county of Rockbridge, enrolled himself a private in an artillery company, (Capt. Licke) Gallantly and with distinguished bravery did this youthful soldier do his duty in the battles, which, under Major General Jackson, resulted in driving the invading armies from the Valley of Virginia. The combined virtues of gentleness, and that manliness composed of chivalrous feeling and undaunted courage, secured alike the devotion of his family, and the love and admiration of his comrades. If a heartfelt desire to be like Christ, and a child of God makes us so (for in a letter to his sister, he said, I hope the spirit of God is moving upon my heart, while his knapsack contained evidences of much reading on the subject of religion,) then we claim for him the title of Christian soldier, a title, in our estimation far more exalted than that, so well deserved, and given his distinguished farther of Christian Statesman.
Truly there is consolation for his bereaved wife and sisters for this great sacrifice made on their country s altar. _Richmond Enq. F. (Abingdon Virginian, Oct. 3, 1862.
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Suggested edit: MCDOWELL, THOMAS PRESTON
Died, 7th August, 1862, in camp near Gordonsville, Va., THOMAS PRESTON MCDOWELL, youngest son of the late Gov. McDowell of Virginia .
The subject of this notice was, in the beginning of this war, a resident of Texas and participated in the movement which resulted in the expulsion of the Federal troops from that State. But when Virginia, on the outposts as she was, called on her sons to protect her soil, sacred with the graves of their fathers from pollution by Northern hordes, he, with thousands of others impelled by that love of State, which, like a vestal flame seems never extinguished in the bosoms of her children, rushed to her rescue; and in his native county of Rockbridge, enrolled himself a private in an artillery company, (Capt. Licke) Gallantly and with distinguished bravery did this youthful soldier do his duty in the battles, which, under Major General Jackson, resulted in driving the invading armies from the Valley of Virginia. The combined virtues of gentleness, and that manliness composed of chivalrous feeling and undaunted courage, secured alike the devotion of his family, and the love and admiration of his comrades. If a heartfelt desire to be like Christ, and a child of God makes us so (for in a letter to his sister, he said, I hope the spirit of God is moving upon my heart, while his knapsack contained evidences of much reading on the subject of religion,) then we claim for him the title of Christian soldier, a title, in our estimation far more exalted than that, so well deserved, and given his distinguished farther of Christian Statesman.
Truly there is consolation for his bereaved wife and sisters for this great sacrifice made on their country s altar. _Richmond Enq. F. (Abingdon Virginian, Oct. 3, 1862.
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Left my adopted State, Texas,
to die in defending my native
Virginia from the unholy tramp
of a hard and cruel foe.
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