Note: This is a list of personnel who contacted me
giving me information on these individuals. They may not
be members of the 22nd Virginia Infantry, but they are
from the same area where the 22nd Virginia served and
also received recruits.
CALVIN DEAN AND HENDERSON DEAN are my
great-great-grandfather's brothers. They both served as
sergeants in the 22nd Virginia Cavalry. Henderson was in
Company A and Calvin was in Company E. Calvin enlisted
on August 4, 1862. My great-great grandfather, their
brother DAVID DEAN, for whom my late grandfather and I
are named, enlisted on June 3, 1861 from Wise County,
VA, and served in the 50th Virginia Infantry. He fought
at Gettysburg, among other major battles. Henderson Dean
was born in 1829, David Dean in 1832 and Calvin Dean in
1836, all in Wise County, Virginia and the sons of Ellis
and Hannah Dean, born in 1798 and 1805 respectfully. P.
David Romei, Ph.D.
Joshua Brown (The Josie to which Lorena refers
was my gggrandfather.) Joshua's grave lists that he
served as an officer in the 7th Virginia Cavalry, but I
can find no record of him. My hypothesis was that he
served with a Virginia Militia Unit that was attached to
the 7th. Much of the seventh cavalry records have been
lost.
John
Echols - One of the most beloved officers that led
the 22nd VA and the Army of South Western Virginia.
Unfortunately Col. Patton often stepped in for General
Echols due to his frequent illnesses. He is considered
as one of the most forgotten figures in Civil War
history. He was in charge of the Army of South Western
Virginia after Henry Heth was call to the Army of
Northern Virginia. General Echols eventually replaced
General Jubal Early after the Battle of Waynesboro in
1865 becoming the commander of three armies.
Nancy
Hart- In the summer of 1862, the wrathful Federals
offered a large reward for Nancy with the order of her
arrest. Nancy was twenty years old when the Yankees
captured her. Lt. Col. Starr of the 9th West Virginia
captured Nancy at a log cabin, while she was crushing
corn. A young female friend was also captured with her.
Nancy was jailed in the upstairs portion of a
dilapidated house with soldiers quartered down stairs
and a sentry guarding her in the room, at all times.
Guards constantly patrolled the building on every side.
Nancy gained the trust of one of her guards. She was
able to get his weapon from him and she shot him dead.
Nancy then dived headlong out the open window into a
clump of tall jimson weeds. She took Lt. Col. Starr's
horse, and rode bare back. She was clinging low to the
horse's neck, Indian fashion.
About a week later at four o'clock in the morning of
July 25, 1862, Nancy returned to Summersville, but she
did not come alone. She brought with her some two
hundred gray-clad Confederate cavalry, or mounted
infantry, under the command of Major R. Augustus Bailey,
of Patton's Twenty-second Virginia Infantry. The Rebel
troops came storming up the Sutton road, overran the
pickets located about a quarter of a mile from the
headquarters, and entered the streets of the town
without opposition.
Nancy passed away in 1902 and was buried on a wild
crag of Mannings Knob, near her home, and there she
rested with only a pile of stones to mark the place of
burial.
Colonel John J. Coleman - John J. Coleman was
a Colonel of the Virginia Volunteer Forces during the
Civil War. Virginia Governor John J. Letcher
commissioned John Coleman as Colonel in April 1861
during a special session. Possibility of serving with
the Fayetteville Rifles. John J.'s wife, Isabella. Her
grandfather was William Carnifex. Yes, the one that ran
the ferry below the "Carnifex Ferry Battleground." You
see, William ran a ferry on the Gauley River (below
where battle took place) and the actual land where the
battle took place was the farm of his daughter and her
husband, Mr. Patterson.
Thomas Ingram Stone - was killed at Lewisburg,
May 27, 1862. His son, George Washington Stone, was
present when his father died. These men came from Henry
County.
T. Martin - I find your site very interesting.
I grew up no more than one mile from the old Dietz House
at Meadow Bluff, West Virginia. The Dietz House was
Headquarters for the Confederate Army at Meadow Bluff.
As a young teenager no more than 13 or 14 years old I
was in the Dietz House and shown around by the owner
William Dietz, now deceased. I observed writing
preserved on the walls in the upstairs area left by the
soldiers. A couple of years ago, an artist in the Meadow
Bluff area did a painting for me of the Dietz House
which is hanging on my wall. You can still see the
trenches dug in front of the house for observing and
protecting Meadow River and the surrounding area.
General Lee was at Meadow Bluff in 1861. His horse
Traveler was purchased at Blue Sulphur Springs about 4
miles from Meadow Bluff during that visit. The Dietz
House is still standing but is now empty and in a state
of disrepair. 84 members of a company from Georgia are
buried at Blue Sulphur Springs. They died of Yellow
Fever. The burial site is now grown over with trees and
brush. I notified the Museum of the Confederacy in
Richmond of this burial site. They had no record of it
There is only a small marker regarding the soldiers
death along side the one lane country road that passes
through Blue Sulphur. Are they any groups such as the
Sons of the Confederacy that could help in getting
burial site at Blue Suplphur cleaned up and designated
appropriately? The State of West Virginia as done a very
poor job in preserving it's Civil War history. I hope
this information will be of interest to you.
