Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-03-05
DR.. Berkeley's Picture.

A picture of DR.. Carter Berkeley was
presente to the Stonewall Jackson
Camp, Confederate Veterans, on last
Tuesday evening, by the members OF
his family. There was a large atten-
dance of the mem bers and friends. Mr..
Armistesd G. Gordon made the presen-
tation speech, which we take pleasure
n reproducing here.
Mr.. Commander, and Veterans Of the
Stonewall Jackson Camp:
At the instance of the family of your
late comrade, DR.. Carter Berkeley, the
pleasing Office is devolved upon me of
presenting to the Camp on their behalf
this portrait.
DR.. Berkeley was sprung of a lineage
that has adorned alike the annals of
Colony and Commonwealth; and the
name he bore is found on the roll of
plain of Senlac. But it may be assured
ly said of this modest Virginia gentle
man and faithful Confederate soldier,
that none of the long line o.. those who
preceded him in the old w0l1d or in the
new ever bore that name more WORTH
ly than he.
He was born in Staunton on the 9th
day of October, 1887. His father was
DR.. Edmund Berkeley, and his mother
was Mary Randolph Spottswood
Brooke, daughter of Judge Francis
I. Brooke, who was at one time presi-
dent of the Supreme Court of Appeals
of Virginia.
DR.. Berkeley was resident of Staun-
ton during the larger part of his life.
He attended consecutiyely the Staun-
ton Academy, a military school in
Frederick county, Md, and the Uni
versity of Virginia. During his stay at
the University, while the spirit of bat
tie brOOded in the lurid atmosphere of
an impending dissolution of the Union,
he became member Of a military corps
organized among the students, under
the name of ''The Sons of Liberty" in
which he held the Office of corporal.
With this organization he entered the
Confederate army upon the outbreak
ing of hOstilitieS, and with heroic cOur-
age in battle and unfaltering fidelity
and self-sacrifice in camp and on the
march, he rendered his state and coun-
try such service as was worthy of his
name and lineage
During his military career he was
successfully corporal in the Univer-
sity student-company;a gunner and
sergeant in the Staunton Artillery; a
member of Co. D, sixth Va. Cavalry;
and second and first lieutenant in Nc
Clanahan's Horse Artillery; and he
was with the Eighth Va. Regiment in
the Second Battle of Manassas.
His career as a Confederate soldier
was always, and most Justly, a proud
memory to DR.. Berkeley; aud he found
an unfailing pleasure in recounting to
his companions and friends, whose
name was legion and whose affection
for him was unbounded, his reminis-
cences of that stirring and eventful pc
rod. He-eontributed number of val
liable and interesting monographs and
articles upon subjects connected with
the War between the States to various
and periodicals. Among
them was most interesting account of
the Battle of New Market, in which he
was himself an active participant, and
where, under the fire Of his guns, the
cadets of the Virginia Military Insti-
tute moved to the renown that dig
nifies great deeds, and left with their
dead comrades there the halo of i'm
At the close of the war DR.. Berkeley
studied medicine in the University of
and after taking his degree
began the practice of his profession in
Augusta county. Later he was drug
gist and pharmacist in Staunton; and
he was subsequently engaged in the
insurance business.
In all the occupations of civil life he
continued to illustrate thoss qualities
Of courage, of fidelity and Of high
that had adorned his career
as a soldier. He had a passionate love
for Virginia. and for the memories Of
the Confederacy; and it may be truth
fully said of him that he was a noble
type of the old-fashioned Virginia gen.
tleman, and a Confederate soldier who
carried death in one eye and honor in
,he other, and looked on both indiffer-
entity"
| present to his comrades of the
Jackson Camp of Confeder-
ate Veterans the portrait of Lieutenant
Carter Berkeley of McClanahan's
Battery.