{⋆★⋆} MG Lomax, Lunsford L.

Lunsford Lindsay Lomax
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Born: November 4, 1835

Birth Place: Newport, Rhode Island

Father: Mann Page Lomax 1787 – 1842

Mother: Elizabeth Virginia Lindsay 1796 – 1863

Wife: Elizabeth Winter Payne 1850 – 1932

(Buried: Warrenton Cemetery, Warrenton, Virginia)​

Children:

Elizabeth Lindsay Lomax Wood 1874 – 1951​

(Buried: Warrenton Cemetery, Warrenton, Virginia)​

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Anne Taylor Lomax 1887 – 1961​

(Buried: Warrenton Cemetery, Warrenton, Virginia)​

Education:

1856: Graduated from West Point Military Academy – (21st​ in class)​

Occupation before War:

1856: Brevet 2nd​ Lt. United States Army, Cavalry​

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1856 – 1857: Served at Cavalry School of Practice in Carlisle, Pennsylvania​

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1856 – 1861: 2nd​ Lt. United States Army, 1st​ Cavalry​

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1857: Frontier Duty at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas​

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1857: Served in the Cheyenne Expedition​

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1857: Scout for United States Army​

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1857 – 1858: Served in the Kansas Disturbances​

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1858: Served in the march to Fort Kearny, Nebraska​

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1859 – 1860: Frontier Duty at Fort Cobb, Colorado​

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1860: Served in Kiowa and Comanche Expedition​

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1861: Resigned from United States Army on April 25th​​

Civil War Career:

1861: Assistant Adjutant General for General Joseph E. Johnston

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1861: Inspector General for Benjamin McCulloch​

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Served on the Staff of Major General Earl Van Dorn​

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1863: Colonel of 11th​ Virginia Cavalry Regiment​

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1863 – 1864: Brigadier General of Confederate Infantry​

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1864 – 1865: Major General of Confederate Infantry​

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1864 - 1865: Commander of Ransom's Old Cavalry Division in Valley District

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1864: Served in the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia​

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Participated in Raids into Western Virginia​

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1865: Surrendered at Greensboro, North Carolina, with Johnston's Soldiers​

Occupation after War:

Farmer in Caroline and Fauquier Counties in Virginia​

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1886 – 1891: President of Virginia Polytechnic Institute​

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Clerk for U.S. War Department Assembling & Editing official records​

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Commissioner of Gettysburg National Park​

Died: May 28, 1913

Place of Death: Warrenton, Virginia

Age at time of Death: 77 years old

Burial Place: Warrenton Cemetery, Warrenton, Virginia

 

[Pollaco]

He commanded a brigade in F. Lee's Division in the Cavalry Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia.As a major General he took over Ransom's Division and fought under Early at 3rd Winchester and Fisher's Hill.He was captured at Fisher's Hill but escaped within hours.

 

[Luke Freet]

Lunsford Lindsay Lomax:​

Born: November 4, 1835View attachment 380140
Birth Place: Newport Rhode Island
Father: Mann Page Lomax 1787 – 1842
Mother: Elizabeth Virginia Lindsay 1796 – 1863
Wife: Elizabeth Winter Payne 1850 – 1932
(Buried: Warrenton Cemetery Warrenton Virginia)
Children:
Elizabeth Lindsay Lomax Wood 1874 – 1951
(Buried: Warrenton Cemetery Warrenton Virginia)
Anne Taylor Lomax 1887 – 1961
(Buried: Warrenton Cemetery Warrenton Virginia)

Education:
1856: Graduated from West Point Military Academy – (21st​ in class)

Occupation before War:
1856: Brevet 2nd​ Lt. United States Army Cavalry
1856 – 1857: Served at Cavalry School of Practice in Carlisle PA.
1856 – 1861: 2nd​ Lt. United States Army 1st​ Cavalry
1857: Frontier Duty at Fort Leavenworth Kansas
1857: Served in the Cheyenne Expedition
1857: Scout for United States Army
1857 – 1858: Served in the Kansas Disturbances
1858: Served in the march to Fort Kearny Nebraska
1859 – 1860: Frontier Duty at Fort Cobb Colorado
1860: Served in Kiowa and Comanche Expedition
1861: Resigned from United States Army on April 25th​

Civil War Career:
1861: Assistant Adjutant General for General Joseph E. Johnston
1861: Inspector General for Benjamin McCulloch
Served on the Staff of Major General Earl Van Dorn
1863: Colonel of 11th​ Virginia Cavalry Regiment
1863 – 1864: Brigadier General of Confederate Infantry
1864 – 1865: Major General of Confederate Infantry
1864 - 1865: Commander of Ransom's Old Cavalry Division in Valley District
1864: Served in the Battle of Cedar Creek Virginia
Participated in Raids into Western Virginia
1865: Surrendered at Greensboro North Carolina with Johnston's Soldiers

Occupation after War:
Farmer in Caroline and Fauquier Counties in Virginia
1886 – 1891: President of Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Clerk for U.S. War Department Assembling & Editing official records
Commissioner of Gettysburg National Park


Died: May 28, 1913
Place of Death: Warrenton Virginia
Age at time of Death: 77 years old
Cause of Death: Not Known
Burial Place: Warrenton Cemetery Warrenton Virginia


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He was a friend of John S. Mosby, and helped him to form Mosby's Rangers.

 

[gentlemanrob]

Happy Birthday Brig. General Lunsford L. Lomax! Salutes remembering General Lomax on his birthday.

 

[Pollaco]

Staff officer for Ben McCulloch, J.E. Johnston, and Earl Van Dorn.

 

[Pollaco]

He was with Lee's Army but did not surrender with the AONV. Following the Appomattox surrender Lomax made his way to Johnston's army in North Carolina and commanded a Regiment made up of "fragments."His surrender was at Greensboro, North Carolina.

 

[farrargirl]

took this while at Warrenton Cemetery...

 

[Pollaco]

There were about a dozen Civil War Generals who graduated the class of '56 but no real heavy hitters or major players except Gen.Fitzhugh Lee and he is a "maybe".

 

[rpkennedy]

There were about a dozen Civil War Generals who graduated the class of '56 but no real heavy hitters or major players except Gen.Fitzhugh Lee and he is a "maybe".

Samuel S. Carroll is probably the best known of the lot, beyond Lee. But there were a number of names that I've run across in my readings.

Ryan

 

[USS ALASKA]

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04 Nov 1835

Birthday

Lunsford Lindsay Lomax (d.1913), Major General (Confederate Army), was born at Newport, R.I., the son of Mann Page Lomax, of Virginia, a major of ordnance in the United States army. His mother, Elizabeth Lindsay, was a descendant of Captain Lindsay, who commanded a company in the light horse cavalry of Harry Lee during the Revolution, and lost an arm in the war for independence. His father, also, was of an old Virginia family. Young Lomax was educated in the schools of Richmond and Norfolk, and was appointed cadet-at-large, July 1, 1852, to the military academy at West point, where he was graduated July 1, 1856, and promoted to a brevet lieutenancy in the Second cavalry. He served on frontier duty in Kansas, Nebraska and that with promotion to second lieutenant of the First region cavalry, September 30, 1856, and first lieutenant, March 21, 1861, until the secession of his State from the United States. Resigning April 25, 1861, he offered his services to Virginia, and was appointed captain in the State forces April 28th. He was at once assigned to the staff of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, as assistant adjutant-general, and later was transferred to the field of operations beyond the Mississippi, as inspector-general upon the staff of the gallant Texan, Brigadier-General McCulloch, who commanded a division of Van Dorn's army. After McCulloch fell he was promoted inspector-general on the staff of Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He served in this capacity from July, 1862, until October, when he was made inspector-general of the army of East Tennessee. While with the western armies he participated in the battles of Pea Ridge, Ark., Farmington and Corinth, Miss., the first defense of Vicksburg from siege, Baton Rouge, La., Spring Hill and Thompson Station, Tenn. On February 8, 1863, he was promoted colonel and called to the eastern campaigns. As colonel of the Eleventh Virginia cavalry, in W. E. Jones' brigade, he participated in the raid in West Virginia, and the subsequent Pennsylvania campaign, including the battles of Brandy Station, Winchester, Rector's Cross-roads, Upperville, Gettysburg and Buckland. On July 23, i863, he was promoted brigadier-general and assigned to the command of a brigade of cavalry organized for him of the Fifth, Sixth and Fifteenth Virginia regiments, and the First Maryland cavalry. Under his command this brigade was one of the principal factors in the subsequent operations of Fitz Lee's division, including the fighting at Culpeper Court House, Morton's Ford, the second encounter at Brandy Station, Tod's Tavern, the Wilderness campaign, Cold Harbor, Yellow Tavern, Reams' Station and Trevilian's. His gallant and cool leadership in these important engagements led to his promotion, August 10, 1864, to the rank of major-general. He was given command of a division composed of the cavalry brigades of Bradley T. Johnson, W. L. Jackson, Henry B. Davidson, J. D. Imboden and John McCausland, and rendered prominent and distinguished service in the Valley campaign of the army under General Early, at the battles of Winchester, Tom's Brook and other encounters. At the battle of Woodstock, October 9th, he was made a prisoner by Torbert's calvary, but made his escape about three hours later by personally overthrowing his captor. On October 31st he was assigned to the command of the cavalry wing of the army under Early, and on March 29, 1865, was put in entire command of the Valley district of the department of Northern Virginia. After the fall of Richmond he moved his forces to Lynchburg, and when Lee surrendered sent the news to General Echols, with whom he endeavored to form a junction with the remnants of his own, Fitz Lee's and Rosser's divisions. He succeeded in joining the army in North Carolina, and surrendered his division with Johnston, at Greensboro. Thence he returned to Caroline county, Va., and engaged in farming, to which he quietly devoted himself during the succeeding years until 1889, when he was called to the presidency of the college at Blacksburg- He resigned this position after five years' service. For several years he has been engaged in the official compilation of the records of the war, at Washington, D. C.

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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries
The Lomax Administration: 1886-1891

At the time of his appointment to the presidency of the V.A.M.C. General Lunsford Lindsay Lomax was farming in Fanquier County, but had no experience whatever in the operation of an educational institution. He was a popular man, but his appointment as president might well have been influenced by his long friendship with the new governor, Fitzhugh Lee, Lomax's classmate at West Point, and with W. H. F. Lee, who, so Conrad claimed, had wanted a place on the first faculty.

Full article here - https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/exhibits/show/archives-125th/historical-vt/short-history-vt/lomax-1886

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