John Carleton Higginbotham (1842 - 1864))
(From WV Division of Culture and History)
Captain of the Upshur Grays at age eighteen, Higginbotham rose to the rank of
colonel in the 25th Virginia Infantry by the age of twenty and died at
Spotsylvania Courthouse at age twenty-one, while awaiting a promotion to
brigadier general.
Son of William Thompson Higginbotham (1818-1892) and Mary Frances Coleman
(1825-1871).