Company H, 4th Virginia Cavalry, C.S.A. Black Horse Cavalry A Research Compendium · Lynn Hopewell
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Company H · 4th Virginia Cavalry · Black Horse

C. C. Greiner

1841–1864

Confirmed by: Y — single source

Confederate Service Record

"C. C. Greigner"; Company H, "post-war roll".

C. C. Greiner Y CSR: “C. C. Greigner”; Company H, “post-war roll”.

W. P. Hall CSR: Enlisted 25 April 1861; Sgt. Additional Information: Enl. April 25, 1861; sgt.; present April 1864.

William Harding CSR: Enlisted 12 April 1862 Brandy; detailed November 1862 Hospital Steward for the war.

Lee Harrison CSR: Wounded 11 February 1864; captured 24 November 1864 Front Royal; Elmira Prison 3 February 1865; Old Capitol Prison; exchanged 14 March 1865; said to be one of Mosby’s men.

P. Horn CSR: Lt.; Chimborazo Hospital 20 August 1864.

Logan Hunton Born: Around 1841 if 20 years old in 1861.[4372] Married: March 23, 1869, Sarah A. Ball.[4373] CSR: 5’11”, light complexion, light hair, blue eyes; 20 years old; merchant; transferred from Ashby’s Command 1 December 1861; discharged 28 May 1862 disability. Additional Information: Of Buckland. [4374] Not member of Black Horse.

W. B. Hutcherson CSR: Captured 15 March 1863 Loudoun County; Old Capitol Prison.

J. M. Johnson Photo: Williamson, Mosby’s Rangers, 500. Group photo at “the Second Reunion of the 43d Battalion, Virginia Cavalry… at Marshall (old Salem), August 14, 1895.” CSR: Captured and paroled 5 May 1864[5?] Fairfax Courthouse.

  • James Farish Jones Born: 8 November 1829.[4375] Married: “He was unmarried.”[4376] Died: 26 April 1864.[4377] “In 1863 he was captured and sent to Point Lookout, where he remained until he was exchanged as a sick prisoner. His health was so undermined that he could not reach home, and he died in Richmond and was buried in Hollywood Cemetery.”[4378] [4379] Died 26 April 1864; buried Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond (section X, number 152).[4380] His cemetery marker is inscribed, “Dr. J. F. Jones/ Black Horse Cavalry/ Died/ ——— 26, 186—”. Part of the inscription is obscured by the earth.[4381] April 26, 1864. “Buried in the Confederate officers section # 152, Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond.”[4382] Obituary: “In this city [Richmond], on the morning of the 26th Inst. Dr. James F. Jones, of Culpeper county, a member of the Black Horse Cavalry, recently returned from Point Lookout Prison, [died] at the house of L. R. Spilman… .”[4383] See Obituary Chapter. Parents and Siblings: Brother of Strother Seth Jones. CSR: Doctor; captured 11 November 1863 Culpeper; Point Lookout Prison; paroled 3 March 1864. Additional Information: “He was a physician, graduating at the old medical school in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1855. “When the War Between the States began, he returned to Culpeper and volunteered with the Brandy Rifles. […]”[4384] It does not appear that James was a member of the Black Horse, unless he occasionally rode with them. Jones J. F. Born: Buried: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA Died: Rank/Regt: Black Horse Cav., 4th VA Reference: CV 9-1898, V. VI, No. 9. Confederate Dead Database. [4385]

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From A Biographical Register of the Members of Fauquier County Virginia's Black Horse Cavalry, 1859–1865. Compiled by Lynn C. Hopewell (1940–2006), with editorial assistance by Susan W. Roberts and research by Heidi Burke. Manuscript completed February 28, 2008. Published posthumously.

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