Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-31
SOLDIER AND SAILOR.
Death Of Colonel Charles VI. Fauntieroy-
sketch of His Career.
tcorrospondenco Of the Richmond Dispatch.l
IIEEsBUnG. Va, July 20, 1899.

LEEsBUnG. Va, July 20, 1882
Colonel Charles Magill Fauntleroy died
July %. 1889. in Lecsburg. Va. at the house
of his daughter. Mrs. Janet Knox Harrison.
He was the eldest son of the late General
n. 4. FauntIeroy, Of Virginia, who resigned
his commission as colonel of the First
United States Dragons at the call Of his
native State in the spring OF 1851. He was
born in Winchester. Va, August 81, 1922,
at tho house of his maternal grandfather,
Colonel Charles Magill, a member OF the
Winchester bar and an officer in the Revo-
tionary War. fle was appointed mldship-
man in the United States navy IN March.
1898: and before he was sixteen years OF
ace he participated in the attack
which was made upon the strong
hold Of tho pirates IN the Last
Indies Dy n party landed from the squad
ron under Commodore Read sent out for
that purpose. He was almost continuously
on sea service for twenty years, during
which period he was with Captain Hollins,
Of the United States navy, III the destruc-
ton Of Greytown, IN 1855; and he headed
a volunteer party which went 10 search for
and to rescue Lieutenant Strain and his
marty. entancled and lost upon the lsthmus
Of Darien. He was at the Naval Bat
terv." which did such effective and dlstln-
euished service at the bOmbardment OF
Vera Cruz as to draw upon 1t the concen-
trated fire fir m the Fortress san Juan de
Ulloa. and which was hOnOrably distin-
guished in the reduction Of that (thereto-
fore) impregnable stronghold.
In the spring of 1861 he was commanding
q scientific pan ty and two vessels engaged
upOn the United States coast survey, and
mon the secession of Virginia from the
Union he promptly resigned his commits
sion as an old lieutenant IN the United
States navy and rendered his sword and
services to the invaded South. His first
service was to convey heavy ship gunsfrom
Norfolk and Richmond and put them INTO
position to defend Winchester and Harper'S
Ferry. He WAS conspicuous at the guns
which rcpulsed the attack OF the Federal
fleet upon Drewrv's Bluh and fOiled their
first attempt 10 ascend James river 10 Rich
mond. He was selected 20 60 out IN the
Nashville, as second in command ua-
der Captain Pegram, from Charles
ton harbOr, and lie brought that
ship back into Beaufort harbor laden
with English arms and ammunitlonfo for the
Southern Confedcracv. He was invited by
General Joseph T.. Johnston TO a position
on his staff, and he was by his side m all
his operatiOns from Winchester 20 Seven
Pines. At the first battle of Manassas be
fore the smoke of the conflict mad lifted
from the field, his intelligent and eihcient
gallantTy was publicly acknoWledged ny
General Johnston. and on the 30th of sep
TENDER. 1862. ne was commissioned colonel
in the Confederate army as the special re-
quest OfGencralJoh rs "arccogniilOn
of services at the battle of Seven Pines" In
January, 1863. he was announced by Gene
raj Johnston ~ nspcctOr-General OF the
Army of the West and South. lie was cNt
ordered to New Orleans 10 supervise the
construction of irOn-clads nj that place and
AT Shreveport, La, whence ne was ordered
bv General Kirby Smith 10 Europe upon
secret service. which, being accomplished,
he was assigned by the COMMISSIONERS,
Mason and Slidell, 10 the command OF the
Confederate steamer RappahannOck, then
in the port of Calais.
Colonel FauutlcrOv was married IN 1917
TO Janet. daughter Of the late Thomas i.
Knox. Esd. cf Leesburg. Va. Her lowell
ness Of character and person Is. even yet,
forty years since her death, familiar ira
ditiOn i'm Virginia. In - recent letter ut Al
fectionate sohcitude from General William
II. pavne he saws: " How well do ! reuucm-
Der his wedding when he appeared a
model of perfect manhood. and she the
very queen of beauty in all the land.'
His second wife was Sallie SOutcr. Of
Virginia, whom he married in Paris iu 1863.
and who lived only few weeks after the
marriage and died in Florence, Italy, on
the Wedding TOUR.
His third wife was Mary Elgce, daughter
Of Josiah Chambers. Esq, OF Louisiana,
who. with three daughters, survives hun.
Many years ago Colonel Faulticroy
united himself with the Episcopal church
in Lceshurg, under the pastorate of the
Rev. Ia. T.. Davis. whom he greatly rrycred
ana admired. and whose gentle, tender,
and faithful ministrations during his long
and painful illness prepared him for the
vast concern OF the eternal scene to which
he has gone.
In person, form, and features Colonel
FauntlerOy was sIugulaTly graceful and
elegant. Ills mind. naturally strong aud
gifted. was highly cultivated by travel, OBJ
seryation, and reading; and he was dis
tincuished for fearlessness, trankness. and
erect magnanimous manGness of charac-
ter.
lie was preceded to the grave by his
brother, the late DR.. 4. NJ. Fauntleroy, of
Staunton. Va, and surviving linn are his
brother. Judge r. 4. Tauntlerov. of the
Supreme Court of Appeals OF Virginia, and
his sisters. Mrs. Barnes. of Washington
city. widow of the late Surgeon-tieucral
Barnes. of the United States army, and
Mrs. Whlttlesey, widow of the late Major
J. II. Nhittlesey, Of the United States
army. OAIocIlA-