Ludwell Thomas Rector

Ludwell Thomas Rector M V B T K Y Personal Item: Check Manassas Battlefield Museum with pistol on display belonging to Ludwell Thomas Rector. Find donor. card says “of Salem”, now Marshall. Park Web site has photo of pistol. www.nps.gov/mana/musem/personal/11.htm] Photo: Born: Married: Died: Living near Bealeton circa 1874–1878.[3340] Death date unknown. Obituary: Children: Parents and Siblings: Other Family: “The Model 1849 Colt Pocket Revolver belonging to Private Ludwell Thomas Rector of the Black Horse Troop, Company H, 4th Virginia Cavalry, was donated to the park collection in 1966 by his granddaughter, Aileen Rector Woolf (Mrs. Donald O. Woolf) … [of] Washington, D.C.”[3341] Stories, Letters & Biographies: CSR: Enlisted 20 July 1863; paroled 9 May 1865 Fairfax Courthouse. Additional Information: Near Bealeton.[3342] Listed as “T. R. Rector.”[3343] One Ludwell Rector buried Cool Spring Methodist Church, Delaplane; died 1831. Could be father, etc.[3344] [John Gott says no, this man has no children. “Our records only show that he enlisted in the Black Horse on July 20, 1863 and received his parole at Fairfax Court House on May 9, 1865. There does not appear to be any available information about his age at the time of his enlistment although his enlistment date halfway through the war gives us reason to suspect he was fairly young and may have just reached the legal age. His postwar civilian occupation remains a mystery along with his residence, death date and place of burial.”[3345]