★★★ Magruder, John Bowie

John Bowie Magruder
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Born: November 24, 1839

Birthplace: Albemarle County, Virginia

Father: Benjamin Henry Magruder 1808 – 1885

(Buried: Magruder Cemetery, Albemarle, County Virginia)​

Mother: Maria Louisa Minor 1816 – 1854

(Buried: Magruder Cemetery, Albemarle County, Virginia)​

Education:

Attended Virginia Military Institute​

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Graduated from University of Virginia​

Occupation before War:

Teacher in Culpeper, Virginia​

Civil War Career:

1861 – 1862: Captain of Company H, 57th​ Virginia Infantry Regiment​

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1862: Major of 57th​ Virginia Infantry Regiment​

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1862 – 1863: Lt. Colonel of 57th​ Virginia Infantry Regiment​

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1863: Colonel of 57th​ Virginia Infantry Regiment​

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1863: Mortally Wounded on 3rd​ Day of Battle in Pickett's Charge​

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1863: His wounding happened twenty yards from Cushing's Guns​

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1863: Found on the battlefield on July 4th​​

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1863: Hospitalized at 2nd​ and 12th​ Army Corps Hospital​

Died: July 5, 1863

Place of Death: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Age at time of Death: 23 years old

Last Words in Battle: "They are ours!" - Speaking of being close to Cushing's Guns

Original Burial Place: Jacob Schwartz Farm, or George Bushman Farm

Burial Place: October 1863 moved to Glenmore Plantation, Seven Miles from Charlottesville, Virginia

Cenotaph Location: Maplewood Cemetery, Charlottesville, Virginia

 

[Tom Elmore]

Magruder graduated from the University of Virginia in 1860, where he had been a member of the Epsilon Alpha fraternity. In 1861, he drilled in a military class conducted at the Virginia Military Institute. After he was mortally wounded at Gettysburg, a Federal captain (an Epsilon Alpha fraternity brother) took him prisoner. Presumably at the initiative of this unidentified Federal officer, the fraternity covered the cost to return Magruder's personal effects and his body (in a metal coffin) to his father in Virginia in October 1863.

(www9.vmi.edu/archiverosters; Colonel John Bowie Magruder, a Historical Sketch of His Life, by Col. Wm. H. Stewart, Southern Historical Society Papers, vol. 27, p. 205)

 

[Luke Freet]

I wonder if he is at all related to "Prince John" Bankhead Magruder.

 

[Lubliner]

I wonder if he is at all related to "Prince John" Bankhead Magruder.

If so, he would have been an uncle. 'Bankhead' was born May 1, 1807, one year older than the Colonel's father. There are distinct similarities in schooling and locale. Possibly once removed, due to eight brothers and sisters on the 'Bankhead' side.
Lubliner.