Re: Horsley's of VA
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Re: Horsley's of VA
11/01/01
I don't have a lot of information on any Horsley's that aren't in my direct line.There are a few Horsley's mentioned in the book "The Cabells and Their Kin" by Alexander Brown, but none of the names you mention.The only one of the Cabells you name that I can find any information about at all is Catherine.The same book refers to several Catherine Cabells but only one of those would fit with the date you list and it is probably only a remote chance it is the Catherine you are looking for.
Her name was Catherine Hamilton Cabell.She married 1 Feb 1882, Herbert Augustine Claiborne, of Richmond, VA.He was a lawyer, captain in C. S. A., and president of Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia (son of H. A. Claiborne, of King William Co. and of Richmond, a member of the Virginia legislature; soldier in the War of 1812; lawyer).Catherine Cabell and Herbert Claiborne had three children:Jeanie Alston Claiborne, b. 18 Jul 1883, d. 19 Nov 1890; Herbert Augustine Claiborne; and Hamilton Cabell Claiborne.
Catherine Hamilton Cabell was the daughter of Col. Henry Coalter Cabell, C. S. A. and Jane C. Alston of South Carolina.Col. Cabell was chief of artillery, McLaws' Division, Army of Northern Virginia.He was in the fight at Dam No. 1, and other engagements on the Peninsula; was in the battles of Seven Pines, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, Hanover Junction, Cold Harbor, the defense of Petersburg, etc.His last engagement was on 8 Apr 1865, in the afternoon preceding the surrender at Appomattox Court House, where his artillery repulsed, without infantry support, a charge made by a very large force of the enemy.At the battle of Gettysburg his artillery supported the famous charge of Pickett.During that three days' fight two horses were shot from under him and he was slightly wounded in his left side, but did not leave the field.Just before the close of the war he was promoted to the rank of general of artillery, but as the commission did not reach him until after the end of the war, he did not assume the title.He died in Richmond, 31 Jan 1889.
I hope this helps.
Syd
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Re: Horsley's of VA
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