The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-02-19
Prince Edward County Records.

Nf'hAI hNNNt ANf
Prince Edward County has fur
nished officers in every war Of the
United States.
For the Revolutionary war the best
known of these are Gen. Francis
Nash. killed at the battle of German
town ia l71I in command Of a North
Carolina brigade, and Gen Robert
Lawson.
General Lawson entered the sery-
ice In 1876 as Major of the Fourth Viz
ginia; he was promoted the same year
TO a Lieutenant Colonelcy, and was
commissioned Colonel in l7T Re-
signing from the Continental army,
me was appointed Brigadier General of
Virginia militia, and served with dis
tinction in that capacity particularly
at the battle Of Guilford Courthouse.
It was General Lawson who induced
the father of DR.. John Pener Mettauer
10 settle in Prince Edward after the
war. General Lawson died in Rich
mond i'm 1905. He had been repeat
edly member of the General Assem-
bly,, and was a Charter Trustee Of
Hampden Sidney College. President
Monroe and Governor Mercer, of Mary
land, were Colonies in his regiment
DR.. Henry Holcombe- who was
born in Prince Edward county in 1862,
was a Captain in the Revolutionary
war, probably in the militia service.
He became a minister of the Baptist
Church, and lived for many years in
South Carolina and Georgia. He was
a member of the Convention Of South
Carolina to ratify the Constitution Of
the United States founded a school at
Savannah, and established the Geor-
gia Analytical Repository, religious
newspaper. For fourteen years be-
fore his death in 1896, DR.. Holcombe
was pastor of the First Baptist church
of Philadelphia His kinsman, James
Phileman Holcombe probably a grand
son of Phileman Holcombe trustee Of
the town of Farmville, and Sheriff OF
the county was Commissioner Of the
Confederate States in Canada from
1863 to 1863.
In the Indian war Of 1911, and in
the war Of 1912 Prince Edward Coun-
ty supplied two officers who were in
timately associated with the heroes Of
those wars Colonel Abraham Owen
was killed at the battle Of Tippecanoe,
acting at the time as aide de camp to
General William Henry Harrison and
General John Coffee, usually called
Jack Coffee, and celebrated for his
bravery, was i'm command Of a divis-
ion of General jackson S army at New
Orleans. General Coffee was born in
Prince Edward, June ., l772, and died
in Alabama in 1894 He moved to
Davidson county, Tennessee. in 1898,
was a merchant there and surveyor OF
public lands. In 1909 he married
p Mary Donelson the sister of Andrew
; Jacksons wife. In 1912 he raised a
regiment of cavalry, was commission
ed Brigadier General of Militia fought
several battles and arrived at New
, Orleans barely in time to command
, General Jackson left wing in thai
I famous stampede. After the war
D General Coffee was frequently Com
! missioner to the Indian Tribes of the
D South West territory, and spent the
rest of his life in Alabama and il
, Florida
In the Mexican War, as is wei
t known, Gen. Sterling Price born il
] Prince Edward county in 1909 wa
chiefly instrumental in the subjugator
+ of New Mexico. OF the many of
ficers from Prince Edward county il
the Confederate service, the mos
|, widely known were General Price anC
General Allen, Henry w. Allen.
n The latter was Brigader General il
!. the regular army, Major General o
n Militia, and Governor of Louisiana,
The Spanish war is recent history
2 and fortunately was rather bloodles
contest for all troops engaged.
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