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C.S.A. Do
we weep for the heroes who died for us,
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On July 4, 1861 Gordon Thompson went to Princeton and enlisted as a
Sergeant in
the 60th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company H., Confederate States of America.
He died in the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain on Monday, May
9, 1864.
You may want to read the Report of Col. Beuhring H. Jones, Sixtieth Virginia Infantry, of engagement at Cloyd's Mountain which was published in "The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies". Scanned images of Gordon's letters to his wife Louisa Bailey Thompson can be found in Letters Home. Pictures of Gordon are on page six of the Photo Album, and pictures of his memorial stone are on page five of the Photo Album. More about his family is in the Thompson Genealogy Report.
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* Fr. Abram Joseph Ryan (1838~1886) was a Southerner to the core in spite of his Irish heritage and mostly Northern upbringing, Fr. Ryan enlisted in the Confederate Army on September 1, 1862, and served as a chaplain throughout the conflict, carrying the wounded to safety and performing last rites on the battlefield. His first piece of poetry was inspired by the death of a younger brother in action, and he quickly became known as the "Poet-Priest of the Confederacy."