General Julius Franklin Howell

[repeat]

I bought a book at the local flea market that was once owned by Confederate General Julius Franklin Howell.
Does anyone have more info concerning him?
I have googled his name and found some info, but would like to find out more about the man.

[samgrant]

Originally Posted by repeat

I bought a book at the local flea market that was once owned by Confederate General Julius Franklin Howell.
Does anyone have more info concerning him?
I have googled his name and found some info, but would like to find out more about the man.

From what I can find, he wasn't really a Confederate general.

" Julius Franklin Howell
24th Virginia Cavalry, Company K.
Howell was born January 17, 1846. He enlisted at the age of 15 in
the Confederate army. He served as a courier on the staffs of
General Roger W. Pryor, of Virginia and General John Braxton, of
North Carolina. He was captured three days before the surrender
at Appomattox and spent three months as a union prisoner at Point
Lookout, Maryland. He was discharged as a Corporal at Fort
Monroe. Howell attended both Harvard University and University of
Pennsylvania. He married twice; his first wife was Ida C. Benton
(??-6/20/1933)married in 1870 and his second was Maude Sharpe of
South Carolina, whom he married in 1936, when he was 90. His
title as general stems from his two terms as National
Commander-in-Chief of the United Confederate Veterans in 1939 and
1940. "General Howell, former President of Virginia Intermont
College was known as the last survivor of Longstreet's Corps
of the Army of Northern Virginia. Howell died June 19, 1948, 102
years old, and was buried in Bristol, Virginia."

-from http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaschs/cwvets.txt

I have a link from a book: Bristol (TN) (Images of America) by George Stone and Sonya A. Haskins

If it works it shows a photo of this geezer.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0738...=search-inside


You can hear a recording of Howell at this site:

http://www.soundportraits.org/on-air/civil_war_general/

(This is like 'Antiques Roadshow', "well, I'm sorry to inform you that Mr. Howell was not a true Confederate general, bu he was reputed to be the last living veteran of Gen. Longstreet's .... " )

[repeat]

Thank you for the information. My wife and I are going to make a week-end trip to bristol,va and go to his grave. He is buried at East Hill. We also plan on going to the Washington county historical society to find out more.
Thamks again!