War!

War Comes to Westmoreland

Soldiers Who Served
Balderson, Marlborough	Born in Richmond County; Farmer. Private, Co. A, 15^th Cav. Batt. Died February 19, 1915, Westmoreland Cty.
Griggs, Huttson P.	Private; Died of Measles in unknown Hospital June 17, 1862
Gutridge, Richard C.	Private; Died between September 1st & December 23, 1862
Hutt, Augustin N.	4th Corporal; Died in unknown Hospital June 16, 1862
Jennings, James K.	Private; Died in Ashland Hospital May 17, 1862
King, John W.	Private; Died of Measles at Milford Hospital May 20, 1862
Lamkin, John B.	Born abt. 1838 in Westmoreland Cty. Seaman, Corp. Co. D, NC 5^th Inf. Reg.
Lefever, William H.	Private; Died Milford Hospital May 15, 1862
Oliff, Thomas	Private; Died unknown Hospital June 1, 1862
Sanford, Lucius E.	Captain; Died August 1, 1864
Washington, Richard	Sgt.; KIA Hagerstown, Maryland July 6, 1863
	Buried Washington Family Cemetery, Westmoreland Co.

. . . March 17^th, the U.S. Navy bad a brush with the security force in the upper end of Westmoreland County. Landing parties went up Mattox Creek—one turning up what is today called Monroe Creek behind Colonial Beach, Virginia. Another went up Mattox Creek proper and a third party plowed though some surrounding countryside, this last group appears to have broken up a Confederate camp, which, judging from the description of its size and location may well have been Sergeant Brogden's. This group also had a skirmish with fifty Confederate cavalrymen in one group and eight or ten in another. Mosby’s Company C was quartered in Westmoreland County and if there had been time could have put fifty men up against the Union landing party, but such action is not mentioned in the postwar accounts of Mosby’s men, who bragged at some length . . .
	Life with Col. John Mosby .pdf Book by Google

Abolition Prisoners

--Fifty one Abolition prisoners, mostly belonging to the 8th Pennsylvania cavalry, including Capt. Samuel Wilson, of Company L of that regiment, were brought to the Libby prison Saturday night. They arrived with the above lot two deserters from the 69th New York, and one from the 5th regiment, same State.

The Abolition prisoners of war were captured at Leed's Ferry, in Westmoreland county, Dec. 2d, while on picket duty. They say they were surprised by our men, and surrendered without any resistance.

Richmond Daily Dispatch, December 8, 1862

	Samuel Francis Atwill ("Frank") was born at Atwillton, near Montross, Westmoreland Co., Virginia on January 31, 1846. He was the son of Samuel Bailey Atwill and Jane Ann Broun. Atwill matriculated at VMI on May 20, 1862; two years later, while a Cadet Corporal in Company A, he took part in the Battle of New Market, Virginia (May 15, 1864), where he was mortally wounded. He died on July 20, 1864, at the home of Dr. F. T. Stribling, in Staunton.
		Samuel F. Atwill, CSA Letters ~ Letters Home

Richard Lee Turberville Beale Brigadier General Born May 22, 1819 at Hickory Hill Westmoreland County VA Wounded in skirmish Died April 21, 1893 at Hague VA Buried Hickory Hill Cemetery Hickory Hill Virginia
		Horrible Crimes ~ Near Hague!

...Returning to Richmond, the Milburn Brothers enlisted in the Confederate (volunteer) navy and on September 2 left Richmond on the RF&P Railroad. One brother reported traveling in a group headed by Captain Hebb, and the other noted that his group was headed by Walter Bowie (probably the Bowie from VMI).

Both groups left the train at Milford, marching east through Caroline County to Layton’s ferry on the Rappahannock, where they crossed to Leedtown and then went north five miles to the plantation of Mr. Rust.

Situated on the Potomac, the Rust plantation was in what is now the northern part of Colonial Beach, Virginia. It lies between Rosier Creek and Mattox Creek, where a Confederate Signal Corp. camp was located. This camp appears to have been the main base for the naval partisans.

One group, however, moved to the Nomini River, twenty miles down the Potomac. From there they moved to southern Maryland and then to Shapes Island and Tilghman Island in the Chesapeake.

Come Retribution: Confederate Secret Service & the Assassination of Lincoln W.A. Tidwell, James O. Hall, David Winfred Gaddy

Benjamin F. Stewart, son of William P. Stewart, of Oak Grove, Westmoreland County, Virginia, entered the Virginia Military Institute on the 13^th of October 1853, in his sixteenth year. Graduated in 1857, and after teaching a year received an appointment as assistant professor of French and assistant instructor in Tactics at the Institute, and occupied this position until the beginning of the war. Entered military service as lieutenant in the 40^th Virginia, and served with this command until the last year of the war, when he was killed.

B. P. Mitchell, a 19 year old laborer residing in Westmoreland County is listed as taking the Oath of Allegiance.