Prewar he was a farmer, planter, and the leading merchant of Newtown, King & Queen County, VA. There he built and sold in 1853 a (still-standing) brick building to Rev. E. Payson Walton for his Newtown Female Seminary.
Postwar he came to live with his son, Aubin, at the former Judge Francis Taliaferro Brooke Estate, "St. Julien", Spotsylvania County, which Aubin had bought in 1879.
Captain R. Lindsay Walker's Company "Purcell Light Artillery", Walker's Battalion, District of Aquia, Dept. of Fredericksburg, C.S.A.
Enlisted in 1861, he was mustered into Purcell Virginia Light Artillery as a Private.
Furnished substitute; discharged 2/18/1862.
The Purcell Light Artillery, completed its organization at Richmond, Virginia, in April, 1861.
Prewar he was a farmer, planter, and the leading merchant of Newtown, King & Queen County, VA. There he built and sold in 1853 a (still-standing) brick building to Rev. E. Payson Walton for his Newtown Female Seminary.
Postwar he came to live with his son, Aubin, at the former Judge Francis Taliaferro Brooke Estate, "St. Julien", Spotsylvania County, which Aubin had bought in 1879.
Captain R. Lindsay Walker's Company "Purcell Light Artillery", Walker's Battalion, District of Aquia, Dept. of Fredericksburg, C.S.A.
Enlisted in 1861, he was mustered into Purcell Virginia Light Artillery as a Private.
Furnished substitute; discharged 2/18/1862.
The Purcell Light Artillery, completed its organization at Richmond, Virginia, in April, 1861.
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