Patrick County Virginia Civil War

PATRICK COUNTY VIRGINIA IN THE CIVIL WAR

Patrick County Virginia produced money during the war. This is a one dollar note.

While acquiring materials for The Free State Of Patrick: Patrick County Virginia In The Civil War one story still amazes me. You often hear of the proverbial box in the attic well I was privileged to get access to the letters of Jehu Barnard preserved by his daughter Lois Harris. Both are shown below. Lois was still teaching at Blue Ridge High School when my father came to Patrick County in 1959. She transcribed and protected her father's letters from the war. This webpage is dedicated to her for preserving an important part of Patrick County history.

Patrick County's Most Famous Son Major General James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart

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Rufus James Woolwine (Courtesy Virginia Historical Society)

If not for J. E. B. Stuart the most famous soldier from The War Between The States would be Rufus James Woolwine of the 51st Virginia Infantry. Woolwine kept a diary that the Virginia Historical Society published in their Virginia Magazine of History and Biography in 1963, Volume 71 pp. 416-448.

Woolwine's papers are in the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond donated in 1960 by Mrs. Claude Norris of Stuart, Virginia. Visit their website for more information. http://www.vahistorical.org/

Rufus Woolwine and many of the 51st Virginia Infantry were captured and sent to Fort Delaware prison on Pea Patch Island in the middle of the Delaware River. Today shown below it is a state park in Delaware. http://www.visitthefort.com/

Fort Delaware Society http://www.fortdelaware.org/

51st Virginia Infantry http://51stvirginiainfantry.tripod.com/

Replica of the 51st Virginia Infantry's Battleflag. Original was buried with the Colonel of the Regiment Gabriel Wharton.

GENEALOGY RESOURCES

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PATRICK COUNTY CIVIL WAR ROSTERS

Patrick County Confederate Soldiers

Patrick County Union Soldiers

Patrick County People In The Southern Claims Commission

Patrick County, Virginia and Confederate Officials

Patrick County Confederate Pension Applications

Patrick County Confederate Disability Applications

Patrick County UDC Applications

Patrick County Robert E. Lee Camp Applications

Patrick County Free People And Slaves Conscripted Into Confederate Service

Patrick County Civilian Patrols

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1900 Reunion of Patrick County's Confederate Veterans

1903 Reunion of Patrick County's Confederate Veterans.

Tracing Your Civil War Ancestor

Ordering Compiled Service Records From The Internet

National Archives

http://www.archives.gov/index.html

https://eservices.archives.gov/orderonline/start.swe?SWECmd=Start

Broadfoot Publishing

www.broadfootpublishing.com

http://www.soldiersearch.com/index.html

Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System

http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/

Civil War Research at the Library of Virginia

Library of Virginia Home Page

http://www.lva.lib.va.us/

Pension Records

http://ajax.lva.lib.va.us/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b-clas10&local_base=CLAS10

Disability Records

http://ajax.lva.lib.va.us/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b-clas11&local_base=CLAS11

Lee Home Applications

http://ajax.lva.lib.va.us/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b-clas16&local_base=clas16

Index To Virginia Confederate Rosters

http://ajax.lva.lib.va.us/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b-clas31&local_base=CLAS31

Using Virginia Civil War Records

http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/mil/rn14_usingcivwar.htm

Civil War Manuscript Collections

http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/collections/CW.htm

Confederate Navy

http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/mil/CN.html

Selected Civil War Resources

http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/notes/CivilWarbib.pdf

Index to Confederate Veteran Magazine

http://ajax.lva.lib.va.us/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b-clas65&local_base=CLAS65

Museum of the Confederacy

http://www.moc.org /

http://www.moc.org/edrese.htm

Virginia Historical Society

http://www.vahistorical.org

Virginia Historical Society Civil War Research

http://www.vahistorical.org/research/cw_history.htm

Virginia Heritage Guide to Manuscripts

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/cgi-bin/eadform.pl

Virginia Tech Special Collections

http://spec.lib.vt.edu/civwar/guidecw.htm

Official Records Online

http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/moa_browse.html

Patrick County Confederate Soldier Photo Gallery

David Lee Ross

Abram David Reynolds, brother of R. J. Reynolds

Alexander R. Fulcher

John Boswell

Cardwell Reynolds

I. B. Shelor

William Henry Smith of the 12 Virginia Infantry

Thomas T. Rakes

William H. Smith

Willis Dalton

In July 1913 the 50th commemoration of the Battle of Gettysburg was held. Virginia born President Thomas Woodrow Wilson spoke that day. On the platform with were two veterans of the war one from the north and one from the south, William Dennis Via of the 51st Virginia Infantry, a postwar dentist of Patrick County and messmate of Rufus James Woolwine. This is the New York newspaper from July 1913 that show Via with President Wilson at Gettysburg.

Tom Perry with Commander Chris Washburn and the first edition of The Free State Of Patrick: Patrick County Virginia In The Civil War. Learn more about the Patrick County's Wharton-Stuart SCV Camp 1832 at http://www.freestateofpatrick.com/wsscvc.htm