Lynchburg is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. First settled in 1757 by ferry owner John Lynch,the city's population was 79,009 at the 2020 census,making Lynchburg the 11th most populous city in Virginia. Located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains along the banks of the James River,Lynchburg is known as the "City of Seven Hills" or the "Hill City". In the 1860s,Lynchburg was the only city in Virginia that was not recaptured by the Union before the end of the American Civil War.
George Wythe Randolph was a Virginia lawyer,planter,politician and Confederate general. After representing the City of Richmond during the Virginia Secession Convention in 1861,during eight months in 1862 he was the Confederate States Secretary of War during the American Civil War,then served in the Virginia Senate representing the City of Richmond until the war's end.
James Hoge Tyler was a Confederate soldier,writer and political figure. He served in the Virginia Senate and became the 16th Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and the 43rd Governor of Virginia. He compiled The Family of Hoge,published posthumously in 1927.
The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad was an historic 5 ft gauge railroad in the Southern United States,much of which is incorporated into the modern Norfolk Southern Railway. It played a strategic role in supplying the Confederacy during the American Civil War.
James Murray Mason was an American lawyer and politician. He served as senator from Virginia,having previously represented Frederick County,Virginia,in the Virginia House of Delegates.
The 37th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government,consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington,D.C.,from March 4,1861,to March 4,1863,during the first two years of Abraham Lincoln's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1850 United States census.
William Hodges Mann was an American lawyer,Confederate soldier and Democratic politician who became the first judge of Nottoway County,Virginia and the last Confederate veteran to serve as the Governor of Virginia.
Samuel Garland Jr. was an American attorney from Virginia and Confederate general during the American Civil War. He was killed in action during the Maryland Campaign while defending Fox's Gap at the Battle of South Mountain.
Thomas Salem Bocock was a Confederate politician and lawyer from Virginia. After serving as an antebellum United States Congressman,he was the speaker of the Confederate States House of Representatives during most of the American Civil War.
James Garland was a nineteenth-century politician,military officer,planter,lawyer and judge from Virginia.
John James Davis was an American attorney and politician who helped found West Virginia and later served as a United States representative in Congress from that state.
Peter Johnston Otey was former Confederate States Army officer and later prisoner of war during the American Civil War,who became businessman,land developer and railroad executive before retiring and winning election to the United States House of Representatives as a Democrat from Lynchburg,Virginia and serving three terms before his death.
James Barbour was a Virginia lawyer,planter,politician and Confederate officer. He represented Culpeper County,Virginia,in the Virginia General Assembly,as well as in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850 and the Virginia secession convention of 1861. Barbour also served among Virginia's delegates to the 1860 Democratic National Convention,and as a major in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
Alfred Madison Barbour was a Virginia lawyer,one-term delegate in the Virginia House of Delegates and also in the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861. He may be best known for his role as Superintendent of the Harpers Ferry Armory in Harpers Ferry,Virginia during John Brown's raid. Although Barbour voted against secession,he became a major in the Confederate States Army and served as a quartermaster during the American Civil War.
John Lawrence Marye Jr.,was a Virginia lawyer,plantation owner,Confederate soldier and politician. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates during the American Civil War,and upon the legislature's election of Lt. Gov. John F. Lewis as one of Virginia's U.S. Senators following the Commonwealth's readmission to the Union,was elected the tenth Lieutenant Governor of Virginia (1870-1874) and as such presided over the Virginia Senate. Marye also represented Spotsylvania County in both the Virginia Secession Convention and the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868,when he was a leading opponent of Congressional Reconstruction.
The Oak Grove Cemetery,originally known as the Presbyterian Cemetery,is located on South Main Street in downtown Lexington,Virginia,less than a mile from the campuses of Washington and Lee University and the Virginia Military Institute. The cemetery was renamed in 1949 as the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery after the Confederate general,who was buried here in 1863. The current name dates to September 3,2020. Also buried here are 144 Confederate veterans,two Governors of Virginia,and Margaret Junkin Preston,the "Poet Laureate of the Confederacy".
Robert Latham Owen Sr. (1825–1873) was a civil engineer and surveyor,Virginia plantation owner,member of the Virginia Senate and President of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad.
John Robin McDaniel was a businessman and leading early citizen of Lynchburg,Virginia,who represented it for one term in the Virginia General Assembly.
Narcissa Chisholm Owen was a Native American educator,memoirist,and artist of the late 19th and early 20th century. She was the daughter of Old Settler Cherokee Chief Thomas Chisholm,wife of Virginia state senator Robert L. Owen Sr. and mother of U.S. Senator Robert Latham Owen Jr. and Major William Otway Owen. Narcissa Owen is most recognized for her Memoirs written in 1907,where she narrates accounts of her life along with the stories and culture of her Cherokee relatives.
Abner Wentworth Clopton Nowlin was a farmer,Confederate officer,politician,editor and lawyer from Virginia,who spent the final years of his life assisting fellow veterans and others at the Central Union Mission in Washington,D.C.
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