Augusta County: "Fathers of Confederate Veterans," by Unknown, December 1908

Summary: This correction to an earlier story, in which the paper reported on the last living man in the county who had sons in the Confederate Army, admits that since publication four other such men have surfaced, though an editor's note at the bottom of the article mentions that no more names surfaced afterwards.

When Rev. Jacob R. Hildebrand died, it was thought that he was the last man in Augusta county who had sons in the Confederate army, but the statement of that fact has brought to light the names of at least four men who are now living who had sons in the Confederate army. They are Mr. Henry Harrison and Mr. John A. Wiseman, of Staunton; Mr. James McDaniel, of Stuart's Draft, and Mr. William F. Bradley, of Cotopaxi, the last named being nearly ninety-four years of age. There are not many left, however, and it is really remarkable that there are any. The Rockbridge County News thinks there is not one left in Rockbridge.-Staunton Dispatch.

The above published in December, 1908, and copied generally by the Virginia press seems to have failed to elicit any additional names.-ED.

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Bibliographic Information: Source copy consulted: SHSP, Vol. XXXVI, p. 368, 1908