TerryB
Lt. Colonel
- Joined
- Dec 7, 2008
- Location
- Nashville TN
My ancestor Marcellus Pointer in 1860, age 19.
This would be around the time of the Mormon Expedition, in which then-Capt. John Gibbon led Battery B of the 4th in Utah; perhaps Waddy was involved too - too bad his shako doesn't have the company/battery letter on it.
John R. Waddy (1834-1905) graduated from the VMI in 1853 and is one of the comparably few from there to actually serve in the regular army (back then); here as 2nd Lieutenant in the 4th U.S. Artillery Regiment in 1858. Joining the Confederacy, the Lieutenant Colonel served as an ordnance officer and in other positions on numerous staffs, much of the war for Pemberton and Beauregard. Afterwards he spent a few years in NYC before settling in Norfolk as a businessman and postmaster.
Picture from my pinterest.
This would be around the time of the Mormon Expedition, in which then-Capt. John Gibbon led Battery B of the 4th in Utah; perhaps Waddy was involved too - too bad his shako doesn't have the company/battery letter on it.
Taliaferro got on the wrong side of Stonewall Jackson (not a particularly hard thing to do!) at the beginning of 1862 when his regiment was a part of the brigade of William Wing Loring which had been summoned to take part in the winter campaign against Federals in Romney, W. Va., but then still part of Virginia. Although the Federals retreated leaving the town to be garrisoned by Loring's Brigade, his officers rebelled, bypassing Jackson's chain-of-command and writing a letter of protest directly to Secretary of War Judah P. Benjamin who ordered them withdrawn. This resulted in the resignation of Stonewall (soon withdrawn), reassigning of Loring away from the Valley, and bad feeling on Jackson's part towards Loring's officers including Taliaferro. Nevertheless, he advanced to command of the brigade in Loring's place, rising to command of Jackson's old Stonewall Division before being struck down with a serious wound at the Brawner Farm runup to Second Manassas.
Nothing better than taking a merry picture at at hanging, I guess. Here a couple of militia officers at the hanging of John Brown, December 1859. Maj. Gen. William B. Taliaferro (1822-1898) was a Harvard-trained politician later serving as Confederate Brigadier General in the ANV and down south. George B. Horner (1833-1892) graduated from the VMI in 1854 and served as Captain in the 1st Virginia Infantry Battalion during the war. The last is Col. Samuel Bailey Richmond whom I simply can´t find anywhere.
Picture from the VMI archives.
Do you happen to know whether William A. Marye is in any way related to John L. Marye, a businessman and lawyer who built Brompton House atop Marye's Heights in Fredericksburg? Find a Grave is failing me (again).William A. Marye (1840-1903) graduated from West Point in 1862 and spent the war as an ordnance officer in various arsenals in the west. He continued his ordnance service, eventually ranking Colonel, and resigned in 1902.
Do you happen to know whether William A. Marye is in any way related to John L. Marye, a businessman and lawyer who built Brompton House atop Marye's Heights in Fredericksburg? Find a Grave is failing me (again).