Through his wife & cousin Nancy, he was father of James French, Elvira Chapman, Elizbeth Roberts, Albert Pendleton, Sadie Viola, Nannie May, Lucy Williams, Alberta.

Company E, 13th Virginia Infantry, Pegram's Brigade, Early's Division, 2nd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A.

Residence: Culpeper County, VA.; lawyer.
Enlisted on (date unknown), he was mustered into C.S.A service as a Private; discharged after 12 months due to being "so near-sighted as to be unable to distinguish a man from a horse at the distance of one hundred yards".
Appointed 11/19/1862 Provost Marshal of Dept. of S.W. Virginia HQ at Narrows, Virginia; commissioned into "E" Co. VA 13th Infantry as a 2nd Lieutenant.
Elected 12/13/1862 to 1st Lieutenant.
Wounded in upper portion of left lung 5/12/1864 in the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, VA.: "...Minie' ball passed through his left arm, shattered and tore away his collar bone, passed through the upper lobes of his left lung, and lodged somewhere in his back but was never found." (Confederate Veteran, Vol. XXXIV, 1926, p. 429); admitted into Chimborazo Hospital #5, Richmond on 9/9/1864; granted Medical Furlough 9/10/1864; transferred 12/12/1864 into Veteran Reserve Corps due to wound.

Postwar he returned to practicing law.
Virginia State Senator 1865-1867 for Culpeper.
Judge (criminal, civil) of Giles and Bland Counties 1869-73, reelected in 1874, resigned.
Virginia State Delegate 1875-1877.
Member of Republican National Convention of 1892.
Declined Republican nomination for U.S. Congress in 1894.
Elector-at-large for Virginia on Republican ticket of 1896.

The 13th Infantry Regiment completed its organization during the summer of 1861 with men from Winchester and Culpeper, Orange, Louisa, and Hampshire counties.