Barbour, John Strode (1790-1855), (father of John Strode Barbour, Jr., cousin of James Barbour and Philip Pendleton Barbour), a Representative from Virginia; born at “Fleetwood,” near Brandy Station, Culpeper County, Va., August 8, 1790; attended private schools; was graduated from the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., in 1808; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1811 and commenced practice in Culpeper, Va.; served in the War of 1812 as aide-de-camp to General Madison; member of the State house of delegates 1813-1816, 1820-1823, 1833, and 1834; elected as a Crawford Republican to the Eighteenth and as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth through the Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1833); was not a candidate for renomination in 1832; member of the Virginia constitutional conventions in 1829 and 1830; chairman of the Democratic National Convention in 1852; resumed the practice of law; died on his estate, “Fleetwood,” near Culpeper, Culpeper County, Va., on January 12, 1855; interment in the family burying ground on his estate.
(Source: Biographical Directory of the US Congress 1774-Present)

Senate Years of Service: 1889-1892
Party: Democrat
BARBOUR, John Strode, Jr. (1820-1892), (son of the John Strode Barbour), a Representative and a Senator from Virginia; born at “Catalpa,” near Culpeper, Culpeper County, Va., December 29, 1820; attended the common schools and graduated from the law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; admitted to the bar in 1841 and commenced practice in Culpeper; member of the State house of delegates 1847-1851; president of the Orange & Alexandria Railroad Co. 1852-1881; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh, and the two succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1887); chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia (Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1886; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1889, until his death in Washington, D.C., May 14, 1892; interment in the burial ground at “Poplar Hill,” Prince Georges County, Md.
(Source: Biographical Directory of the US Congress 1774-Present)

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Botts, John Minor , lawyer, congressman, author, was born Sept. 16, 1802, in Dumfries, Va. He served in the Virginia state legislature in 1833-39. In 1839-43 and 1847-49 he was a representative from Virginia to twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh and the thirtieth congresses. During the civil war he remained faithful to the government of the United States; and was a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists' convention of 1866. He was the author of Letters on the Nebraska Question; and The Great Rebellion. He died Jan. 7, 1869, in Culpepper, Va.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by AFOFG]

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Burgess, A. A.
PRIVATE, 1ST VIRGINIA INFANTRY.
Armistead Alexander Burgess, a son of Edward and Elizabeth F. Burgess, was born in Culpeper County, on the 22d of November, 1843.
After a previous training of some years, young Burgess was sent to the Virginia Military Institute, entering in July, 1860, being at the time in his seventee11th year. His attainments enabled him to become a member of the second class, and in the semi-annual report of the Institute, for January, 1861, we find he had made excellent progress in his studies, having been specially successful in mathematics, standing fifth in a class of forty members. But the exigencies of the war, which at this time came upon us, prevented the completion of his education. The State of Virginia felt the need of expert drill-masters to train her volunteers gathering at Richmond. Governor Letcher assigned this duty to the corps of cadets. How well they performed that duty has been told. Cadet Burgess, as a member of that corps, executed the duties of his position satisfactorily and well. When the cadets were disbanded he returned to his home in Culpeper, and remained there until the following spring, when he left home for the purpose of joining the army. In the spring campaign of 1862 he attached himself to the 1st Regiment, Virginia Infantry, composed of troops from Richmond and vicinity. With this command he served until the battle of Seven Pines, May 31, 1862, where he was killed, in charging a Federal battery.
Cadet Burgess's youth, his age just nineteen at the time of his death, and short service, preclude any suppositions as to what his success, as a soldier or as an officer, might have been. Yet his duty had been well done, and he fell with his face to the foe.
(Source: Biographical sketches of the Graduates and Eleves of the Virginia Military Institute who fell during the war between the States, by Chas. D. Walker. Published 1875. Transcribed and submitted to Genealogy Trails by Linda Rodriguez)

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Clark, Daniel
Daniel Clark and his wife, who was a Miss Shelton, were natives of Scotland. They emigrated to America and settled first in Lancaster county, Va., from whence they removed to Culpepper county, where they both died about 1799. They had six children—William, John, George, Robert, Elizabeth and Polly. William married Elizabeth Hudnall, and settled in Mason county, Va., where his wife died December 14, 1816, and he died at the same place July 4, 1826. Their children were—John H., Frances S., Jemima J., Elizabeth, Nancy, William M., and Polly A. William M. married Elizabeth H. McMullin, and settled in Audrain county in 1839. Mr. Clark is a good neighbor and citizen, hospitable, industrious, and persevering. He has a re
mark able memory in regard to dates, and can remember the date of nearly every event that has occurred during his life.
(Source: A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri: with numerous sketches, by William Smith Bryan, publ. 1876. Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack)

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Gaines, Edmund P.
     General E. P. GAINES was born in Culpepper County, Virginia, March 20, 1777. At the age of fifteen he removed with his father to Sullivan County, afterward the eastern part of Tennessee, which portion of the State was then invested by the Cherokee Indians, who were very hostile to the whites, and kept the border families in a constant state of terror and alarm. He had heard of the cruel assaults of the savage foe, and longed to be led to their attack in the deep fastnesses where they dwelt. A rifle company being raised in his neighborhood, he was elected Lieutenant at the age of eighteen; and, in January, 1799, was appointed Ensign of the Sixth Regiment of Infantry in the United States army.
     In 1801 he was selected by the Government to command a company of Topographical Engineers for the survey of a military road from Nashville, Tenn., to Natchez, on the Mississippi River, in which service he was engaged until 1804, when he was appointed Military Collector for the District of Mobile. Here he served five years, and was promoted to the rank of Captain, when he retired from the army, and commenced practicing law in the then Territory of Mississippi.
     On the declaration of war in 1812, Captain Gaines hastened to offer his services once more to his country. Raised to the rank of Colonel, he was ordered to the Northern frontier. Here, his superior discipline and knowledge of military tactics began early to be seen. After the battle of Christler's Fields, in which he took a prominent part, he was taken sick, and was prevented sharing the fruits of victory in the campaign of General Harrison and its glorious termination at the Thames River.
     Early in August, 1814, Colonel Gaines was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General, and ordered to Fort Erie, to assume command of the Army of the North. He was immediately engaged in a sharp conflict with the enemy, which was continued almost every day for some time, and in which, victory ultimately perched upon his standard.
     Congress, deeply sensible of the service he had rendered his country, voted him their thanks and a gold medal. He also received an elegant sword from each of the States of New York, Virginia, and Tennessee; many other testimonials were also tendered him from various parts of the Union.
     He was with Jackson in the Creek War, and afterward commanded in the Southern Military District, until the reduction of the army in 1821, when ho was retained as a Brigadier-General, and the Western Division assigned to him.
     General Gaines was the senior "officer during the Sauk (Indian) disturbances in 1831-33, and was, for a time, engaged in the Seminole War of 1836. He was soon after transferred to the Eastern Division, with his headquarters at New York. Afterward, returning to New Orleans, he became acquainted with the accomplished widow of General Whitney, and daughter of the late Daniel Clark, whom he married, and who has since become celebrated as "Mrs. General Gaines," in her almost superhuman efforts for conducting to a successful issue a law-suit against the city of New Orleans for the recovery of her father's property in that city, which involved several millions of dollars. With her he lived in uninterrupted domestic peace and happiness until his death in the spring of 1849.
     General Gaines was a man of superior knowledge of military tactics and discipline, of extreme simplicity of character-very decidedly " one of the people" - and of unquestioned integrity.
(Source: Biographies of 250 Distinguished National Men by Horatio Bateman. Published 1871 - Transcribed by Linda Rodriguez)

Gaines, Edmund Pendleton, soldier, was born in Culpepper County, Va., in 1777.  As a lieutenant in the regular army he served on the frontier and was connected with the arrest of Aaron Burr.  He resigned his commission in 1811, but when the second war with England began he reentered the service and for his gallant defense of Fort Erie in 1814 was made a brigadier-general.  He was wounded in this engagement and in addition to his promotion he received a vote of thanks and a gold medal from Congress.  Subsequently he was engaged in the Indian wars in Georgia and in 1816 directed a fort to be built where the town of Fort Gaines, the county seat of Clay county, now stands.  Although not a native of Georgia he played an important part in her Indian difficulties, and his name is one entitled to a place in her history.  He died in 1849.

(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Renae Donaldson)

Gaines, Edmund Pendleton, soldier: b. Culpeper county, Va., March 20, 1777; d. New Orleans, La., June 6, 1849. At twenty-two years of age he joined the United States army, and was successively second- and first-lieutenant of the Sixth regiment of infantry. In 1805 he became collector of customs at Mobile; and two years later received a commission as captain in the regular army, which ho resigned in 1811 with the purpose of practicing law. Upon the outbreak of hostilities with Great Britain in the following year, he returned to the army, and became successively major, colonel and brigadier-general. He was wounded at Fort Erie in 1814, and was brevetted major-general. Congress voted him a resolution of thanks, and gave him a gold medal in consideration of his services in the war. In 1816 he was made a commissioner to deal with the Creek Indians; and in the following year he precipitated the Seminole War by attacking the Indian camp at Fowltown. He was prominent in the later troubles with the Seminoles in 1836; and the same year was ordered by Jackson to enter Texas with a military force, during the war of Texan independence. Upon the protest of the Mexican minister at Washington, Gaines was recalled without further participation in the struggle.

[Source: THE SOUTH in the Building of the Nation Volume XI; Edited by James Curtis Ballagh, Walter Lynwood Fleming & Southern Historical Publication Society; Publ. 1909; Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.]

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Green, Judge John W.
     Judge John W. Green, father of the subject of this brief memoir, entered upon his duties of Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, October 11, 1822, when his son Thomas was two years of age, who was born at Fredericksburg, November 5, 1820. Shortly, thereafter, the family moved to Culpeper County, where the son grew to manhood and was carefully and thoroughly educated. He read law under the direction of his father, and in 1843 was admitted to the Virginia Bar, and located in Charlestown in Jefferson County, where he remained the greater part of his life. In 1861 he joined the Confederate army as a private soldier, serving two years in General Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson's brigade. He was then appointed Chief Collector of Virginia War Taxes, remaining in that position until the end of the war. At the close of hostilities he returned to Charlestown and entered, with great earnestness, upon the practice of his profession, in which he took a leading position. While in the Confederate army he served two terms in the Virginia Legislature. In 1876 he was appointed by Governor John J. Jacob a Justice on the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia to fill the unexpired term of Judge James Paull, deceased, and in 1880 he was elected for the full term of twelve years as a member of that tribunal. He departed this life December 4, 1889, after having served most ably for fourteen years.
     Judge Green was universally regarded as one of the most erudite, broadminded lawyers and jurists of his generation. No judge on any bench ever gave to the important questions submitted to him more complete and exhaustive research and consideration. He traced the law, step by step, through the various windings, down to the date of his opinions, considering and referring to the numerous authorities, English and American, pro and con, bearing thereon. His opinions are in volumes 9 to 33, inclusive, of the West Virginia Reports. The writer never heard but one criticism made on Judge Green's work as a judge, and that was his opinions were too lengthy and too exhaustive. He seemingly could not stop without minutely considering every point in the case. Two cases deserve special attention, Radford v. Carwile, 13 W. Va. 572, on the rights of married women under West Virginia statutes, and Pegram v. Stortz, 31 W. Va. 222, on the question of damages. This is the longest opinion he ever wrote and covers 107 printed pages, and is quoted almost entire in the American and English Encyclopedia of Law. His opinions are widely quoted in the text books and reports of other States.
     In the discharge of his official duties his industry was patient and indefatigable. He loved pure mathematics, which is plainly displayed in all his processes of reasoning. He knew nothing of the parties to any controversy that came before him for decision. Plaintiffs and defendants were to him as impersonal as the letters of an equation, and he applied himself to the solutions of the questions presented as if he were searching for an unknown quantity. Truth was ever the object of his search, and he followed it with an unerring judgment. When engaged in the investigation of a judicial question, he would become so completely absorbed in the train of his thoughts as to cause him to forget the demands of physical comforts and bodily health, and this, no doubt, shortened his days.
     Judge Green could always be relied on with absolute confidence in those exigencies which require firmness and ability. No public clamor or fear of personal popularity could influence his conduct. Undemonstrative and apparently indifferent for the regard of others, he was nevertheless kind hearted and fond of conversation and the society of his friends. His nature was simplicity itself; confiding and loyal in his friendships, but firm and uncompromising in his convictions and duties.
     Judge Green married Miss Agnes McDonald, n daughter of Colonel Angus McDonald, of Charlestown, shortly before the beginning of the war between the States, where he subsequently spent the greater portion of his life. They were both held in the highest esteem by the residents of that charming section of the "Mountain State."
     Judge Green was a Democrat in his political affiliations, but was so constantly absorbed in the business of his profession that he took only a passing interest in the political affairs of the State and Nation.
[Bench and Bar of West Virginia by George Wesley Atkinson, 1919 - Transcribed by AFOFG]

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Hill, Ambrose P.
     General AMBROSE P. HILL, one of the most distinguished leaders of the Confederate army against the forces of the Union, was born in Culpepper County, Virginia, in 1824, of highly respectable parentage.
     He entered the Military Academy at West Point in 1843, and graduated in the same class with General Burnside. In 1855 he was appointed an Assistant of the United States Coast Survey, continuing until 1861, when he resigned his position in the United States army, and was appointed by Governor Letcher, Colonel of Virginia Volunteers. He was attached to General J. E. Johnston's army of the Confederacy, and came in with him at Bull Run, assisting to change the issues of that battle. He was made Major-General for his bravery, and took part in the battle of Mechanicsville; and, in the "Seven Days" fight, was a prominent leader, where he gained a brilliant reputation.
     He was actively engaged in the battles of Cedar Run, Second Bull Run. Centreville, Chantilly, and in the campaign before Washington against General Pope.
     On the 14th of September, 1862, he captured Harper's Ferry, and made a forced march to Antietam Creek, where he took part in that severe battle, and repulsed the Federal troops, who crossed the river in pursuit of the Rebels, with heavy loss.
     In the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862, his division formed the right of Jackson's force, and fought desperately, finally repulsing the Federal troops. At Chancellorsville, May, 1863, his division formed the centre of Jackson's command, and participated in that flank movement by which Hooker's right was crushed.
     When "Stonewall" Jackson received his death-wound, the command devolved on General Hill, who was himself severely wounded soon after. For his gallantry in this battle he was made a Lieutenant-General, and placed in command of the Third Corps in the Army of Northern Virginia.
     In July, 1863, he took part in the great battle of Gettysburg. In the autumn of 1863, he was in the affair of Bristow's Station, but was repulsed with serious loss.
     In the great battles of the spring of 1864, he was, next to General Lee, the most prominent officer of the Rebel army in Virginia, and took part in the severest fighting of that period. On the 22d of June his corps and Longstreet's repulsed the attempt of the Federal troops to gain possession of the Weldon Railroad. At the explosion of the mine at Petersburg, at Ream's Station, and the bloody fight of Hatcher's Run, and the subsequent movements in that vicinity, General Hill led his corps with great ability.
     When the final attack upon the Southside Railroad and the defenses of Petersburg came, he was active in his exertions; and, on the 2d of April, his corps was opposed to the Sixth, Ni11th, and part of the Twenty-fifth Federal Corps, almost unsupported; and then, as always, exposing himself to fire without hesitation, he was instantly killed by a rifle-shot. Thus closed the career of one whose accomplishments as a military officer, acquired at the expense of his country, was, like many of his confederates, devoted to the destruction of the bosom that nourished him.
(Source: Biographies of 250 Distinguished National Men by Horatio Bateman. Published 1871 - Transcribed by Linda Rodriguez)

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Jameson, James H.
CAPTAIN, VIRGINIA INFANTRY.
James H. Jameson, son of E. Jameson, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, in 1820. Entered the Virginia Military Institute on the 11th of November, 1839, the day of its inception, and graduated in 1842; afterwards became a lawyer, and practiced his profession in Culpeper County until the war. Entered service as a captain in the Virginia Infantry; was severely wounded at the battle of Drainsville; was taken prisoner in 1863, and after a long imprisonment received his parole, but died on his way home, in Richmond, 1864.
(Source: Biographical sketches of the Graduates and Eleves of the Virginia Military Institute who fell during the war between the States, by Chas. D. Walker. Published 1875. Transcribed and submitted to Genealogy Trails by Linda Rodriguez)

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McCormick, John T. 
     A prominent distiller and business man of Platte County and Kansas City, John T. McCormick is one of the youngest veterans of the Confederate army, has lived in Northwest Missouri since the war, and has been a farmer, merchant, banker and manufacturer during the course of his progressive career.
John T. McCormick was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, August 4, 1847. His grandfather's brother was Cyrus McCormick, whose name will always be associated with the invention and perfection of the harvesting machinery. His father was Randall McCormick, also a native of Virginia.
     The period of the Civil war thrust itself into the early youth of John T. McCormick, interrupted his work in the common schools and at the age of fifteen turned him into a soldier. He was with the armies of the South during the last three years of the war. After his service he came out West in 1866 and began farming in Platte County near Camden Point. That was his regular vocation until 1879, when he sold his place and came into Waldron. There he established and operated a general mercantile enterprise until 1884. With Cleveland's election to the presidency he was appointed collector of internal revenue for the Sixth District, and held that office four years until a change of administration. In 1888 Mr. McCormick established the McCormick Mercantile and Distilling Company at Waldron, and his active management and business energy have built that up to an important industry, with an output of 2,000 barrels of distilled products per year.
     In August, 1909, he established the Waldron State Bank, and has owned the controlling interest and is president of that institution. Since 1909 Mr. McCormick has had his home in Kansas City, from which city he manages his various interests, with occasional visits to Waldron, where the business is under the direction of his sons, E. R. and W. T..
     Mr. McCormick first married Miss Mary Stallard, who was born in Platte County, Missouri, of Virginia parents. She died in 1882 leaving four children: Miss Lou J., assistant cashier of the Waldron State Bank; E. R., who manages the Kansas City office of the distilling company; J. R., deceased; and W. T., at Waldron. The second wife was Jennie Miller. The present Mrs. McCormick was Elizabeth Burdette. Of three children born to this union, two are living, Louis B. and Helen, both at home. Mr. McCormick has always been identified with democratic politics
Source:  A History of Northwest Missouri Volume III; publ. 1915 in III Volumes; Edited by Walter Williams; Submitted to Genealogy Trails and transcribed by Andrea Stawski Pack

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Slaughter, James Edwin
     Second Lieutenant  James Edwin Slaughter, of Culpeper County, Virginia, was born near the centre of the late battlefield of Cedar Run, and at the foot of Slaughter’s (Cedar) Mountain. He was a son of Major Daniel F. Slaughter (and grandson of Captain Philip Slaughter, of the Revolution), and his wife, Letitia Madison, daughter of General William Madison, a brother of the President.
     He was admitted as a Pay Cadet to the Virginia Military Institute, August 6, 1845, in his 18th year. When the Mexican War broke out, he resigned his cadetship. and applied for a commission in the Army. He was appointed (March 5, 1847) second lieutenant, Infantry, and, on April 9, 1847, was transferred to the Voltigeurs.
He served in General Scott’s command, and was in the battles which took place in and near the City of Mexico, which resulted in the capture of that City. He continued in the Army (being promoted first lieutenant, First Artillery, August 3, 1852) till the Civil War broke out. Resigning then, and returning to the South, he was appointed colonel, and rendered important service in South Carolina, Alabama, and Florida.
     He took an active part in the defense of Mobile against the attack of Admiral Farragut. After this, he was promoted brigadier-general, and as such served in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Later, he was put in command of the troops on the Rio Grande River, in Texas. While thus serving, the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia took place. General Slaughter fired the last shots of the Confederacy; then crossed into Mexico; and never surrendered.
     He lived in Mexico for several years, and then returned to his native country, and made his home in Mobile, Alabama. He   adopted the profession of civil engineering, and did harbor and other work for the United States Government. He was also postmaster at Mobile for some years. He later removed to New Orleans, where he lived until his death, January 1, 1901. He never married.
(Source: The Military History of the Virginia Military Institute from 1839-1861, by: Jennings C. Wise, Publ: 1915. Transcribed by: Helen Coughlin)