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Confederate Brig. General John Echols, CSA
BORN: 1823 in Lynchburg, VA.
General John Echols
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Sign located at the intersection of Route 219 and Route 3It reads: "Gen. Echols was born March 20, 1823 in Lynchburg, Virginia. He entered the Confederate Army from his home in Union. With rank of Lieut. Col., Echols commanded the 27th Virginia Brigade, Staunton Infantry, at Manassas and was severely wonded at Kernstown. He was commissioned Brig. Gen. on April 16, 1862. His later service was mostly in West Virginia. He died May 24, 1896 and was buried in Staunton." |
A letter sent to Major Wm. McLaughlin by Brig. Gen.John Echols
Dr. Mc.
I hope to be a the Narrows on next Monday. I wish that you would ask Col. Wharton if he cannot help me in some way to get home, either by ambulance or some other safe way. Bowyer has just come in and we are just going down to try t get your (cloth?). He will leave here on Saturday night and if nothing happens will be in Dublin on Sunday. It is forever now snowing hard and very cold. I wish that you could see that I can get the quarters where you are, if you should be ordered away, or stay with you when I report for duty, which will be in a very few days.
No news except what you will see in the papers,
In haste very truly yours
Jno Echols
(Wm. Mc Laughln was a lawyer too, served with John Echols as his Chief of Artillery)
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