Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-07
DISPATCH FINDS
OLD SOLDIERS RELATIVES
Major Wainwright, of Confederate
Army. Buried by Union Post,
Was Virginian
TO BRING BODY BACK HERE
Family Of Confederate Officer, Re-
siding in Pulaski and Montgomery
Counties, Had Not Heard From
Him in More Than Twenty Years.

relatives of Major George w. Vain
wright. Confederate veteran and ma
! i've NirSinian. who died at Mount
vernon -. In April and was buried
ny joe iiook"r Post. Grand Army OF
'hc Republic. in that city have been
located IN montgomery and pul,ski
counties Through the publication in Tho
lihlcS- Dispatch of an account of IN.
d'ath and burial OF the old soldier
FOR twenty years Major Wainwripht
"ah been monrncd as dead his broth
"rS ana children having made ropcatcd
efforts during that period to ascertain
MS whereabouts If alive and his res,
ing place if dead
MAJOR wainwright was a NATIVE OF
montgomery County, having been horn
near 'hristiansburr scvcnty-siX years
ago After the war he encar.d II,
farming. bat went West thirtv-nvo
Years ago. leaving his family I'm vi,-
gina For time h" keep, in com
m"hication with relatives, hut 'or some
reason the correspondence ceased ahou,
twenty yca"s ago. When last heard OF
h" VAS at GAINESVILLE, o.
RELATIVES HEAR or MN
IN TINES-DISPATCH ARTICLE
IN" publication IN The Times Dis.
p"'ch on April >" was tho nrst news
rei"'iv%s had had Of Major Wainwright
since IN" early 46's. Joseph T. Vain
WRIGHT, OF Christiansburu. is his oulv
surviving brother. Ills wifo who va.
Mrs. Elizabeth Gearing at the tim. Of
then marriage. died twenty wears 40
III Roanoke. Her maiden name was
n!arIdre Ills children are w H.
Wainwr!ght OF East Radcord \ T.
and Harry Wainwright. Of pittshi,rrh
Mrs. Robert Gilmore of Christians
burg. and Mrs. Il. +. iIudgins and Miss
Laura Wainwright. al Roanoke
ms brother and children have com
mHnicatod with Union veterans nj,
Mount Vernon with "a view 10 I.,rnin-
something "f tho latter years or Main,.
"alhwriGhts life, and TO make ar.
rhhH"inents for having tn" body dis
inferred ana removed To Christiansbur,.
Tor burial in his native soil
Al TN" time OF his death Major VAIN
wright was an inmate Of an infirmarv
az aionht Vernon. II" had expressed a
H"Slr" TO be laid 10 rcst in some plnco
other than in tho innrmary burying
ground, so the Union veterans OF th.
Grand Army OF the Republic po., took
charge OF the BODY. and arranged for
Us burial in the soldiers lot OF Mount
View Cemetery. George H. Neal. com
nander OF tn. post. made a funeral nd
drcss. and old veterans who wore the
blue during the War Between the states
acted as pallbcarcrs There Was a beau
tiiul iioral tribute from the post
CONFEDERATE - IONORED
ny HIS FORMER ENEMIES
TN" burial of a Confederate veteran
ny veterans OF Grand Army of the
Republic post presented an unusual
scene. ana truly presented evidence
of a reunited country. in which tn" bit
tcrn"ss Of nifty years ago Is rapidly
passing Papers found among the .f-
f"cts Of Major Wainwright Indicated
that h" was Nirginian: that he had
served in Company G. Fourth Virginia
Reg imcnt. S;onewall brigade. and later
in Company +. Fourteenth Virginia
Cavalry, McCausland's Brigade Cap
tain !. J. V Elder. adjutant OF Joe
Hooker Post. No. p. Department Of
tn" Ohio Grand Army Of the Repub-
lie communicated with Adjutant Cen
cral w. w. Sale. OF Virginia asking
that the story Of Major Wainwright's
death and burial he printed in the
Richmond newspapers in the hope that
some OF his relatives and friends might
be located.
In acknowledging the receipt OF Ad-
jutant Elders letter. General Sale cx-
pressed the appreciation of Governor
stuart and himself of the spirit shown
by the members of Joe Hooker Post.
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