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Civil War Memorial

 
 
Civil War Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), September 4, 2021
1. Civil War Memorial
Inscription.
Hampden-Sydney alumni who died in the Civil War
John T. Thornton '42 • Parke Poindexter '44 • Thomas M.W. Lyle '46 • George K. Moody '48 • Gustavus A. Bass '50 • Crawford H. Jones '51 • William R. Carter '52 • E.C. Jordan '52 • Samuel T. Spraggins '52 • William H. Townes '53 • William J. Jordan '54 • Joel W. Haden '55 • William L. Venable '55 • James T. Brander '56 • Edgar W. Carrington '56 • Beverly J. Dupuy '56 • Henry B. Fowler '56 • James B. Gardiner '56 • Robert H. Kelso '56 • William S. Walthall '56 • Samuel J. Cabell '57 • William G. Field '57 • Richard B. Shearer '57 • Clement Carrington '58 • H. Everett Meade '58 • Edgar F. Moseley '58 • Charles T. Shelton '58 • Pitman R. Venable '58 • George W. Wooding '58 • John B. Boyd '59 • Valentine Harris '59 • Benjamin C. Jones '59 • James G. Ligon '59 • James M. Lynch '59 • Thomas S. Miller '59 • John M. Whitehead '59 • Charles S. Harris '59 • John Morris '59 • Francis W. Boyd '60 • Samuel R. Comfort '60 • Charles L. Francisco '60 • William L. Guthrie '60 • Edward A. Langhorne '60 • Theophilus
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V. Meade '60 • Allen Morton '60 • William T. Robertson '60 • James H. Taylor '60 • William C. Wallace '60 • John M. Booker '61 • Benjamin D. Fulton '61 • Isaac V. Gibson '61 • Haynie Hatchett '61 • Edmund P. Major '61 • Bernard C. Pollard '61 • Frank D. Sherrard '61 • Robert G. Temple '61 • Travis W. Vaughan '61 • Isaac P. Armstrong '62 • Thornton R. Baxter '62 • Samuel W. Hobson '62 • Achilles W. Hoge '62 • William K. McCoy '62 • Henry R. Morrison '62 • Henry W. Read '62 • Isaac A. Read '62 • John M. Moseley '62 • Robert T. Burwell '63 • Thornton R. Caruthers '63 • Stephen F. Cocke '63 • Henry B. Marks '63 • George B. Walker '63 • John Yeiser '63 • Morton B. Easley '64 • Singleton W. Lacy '64 • Daniel F. Spencer '64 • Sidney S. Stringer '64 • Archer J. Booth '65 • Benjamin W. Bouldin '65 • John A. Patteson '65 • Joseph C. Wheelwright '66 • James P. Scott '67

Additional Hampden-Sydney alumni who died in the Civil War
John L. Martin 1828 • William A. Reese 1852 • William Latanι 1853 (Med. Dept.)• James W. Hamersley 1854 • John Morris 1859 • John H.
Civil War Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), September 4, 2021
2. Civil War Memorial
White 1859 • William G. Baldwin 1860 • Edward W. Baldwin 1860 • John R. Beach 18-- • John R. Holcombe 18-- • Thomas H. Newman 18-- • John W. White 18-- • Patrick H. Worsham 18--
 
Erected by Hampden-Sydney College.
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, US Civil.
 
Location. 37° 14.532′ N, 78° 27.585′ W. Memorial is near Farmville, Virginia, in Prince Edward County. It is at the intersection of College Road (County Road 692) and Atkinson Avenue (County Road 1002), on the left when traveling north on College Road. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 1 College Rd, Farmville VA 23901, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Virginia’s Piedmont, in Southside Virginia, and specifically in Central Virginia. It is also in the American South and specifically in the Upper South. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian
Veterans Memorials Display image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), September 4, 2021
3. Veterans Memorials Display
Culture, one of the original Thirteen Colonies, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: American Revolution Memorial (here, next to this marker); Spanish-American War Memorial (here, next to this marker); World War I Memorial (here, next to this marker); Roll of Honor (here, next to this marker); Korean War Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Vietnam War Memorial (a few steps from this marker); September 11 Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Hampden-Sydney College (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Farmville.
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on September 6, 2021. It was originally submitted on September 6, 2021, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 371 times since then and 23 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3. submitted on September 6, 2021, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.
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