Confederate Reunion Identifications Needed

for details on this August 10, 1904 reunion, see column 5 of the Times Dispatch, August 2, 1904, at the Library of Congress website.

These images are portions of a panoramic photograph donated to the Amherst County Museum by Mr. H.E. Albright of Richmond, VA. It was taken at the Amherst County Courthouse on the occasion of a Confederate veterans reunion held in Amherst, August 10, 1904. Do you recognize any of these men? Let us know if you do, please email the Museum. Some have been identified, and some identified with uncertainty.

• 1. Seaton Stinnett (see Amherst New Era-Progress, Thursday, July 1, 1976, Bicentennial Edition)
• 2. Albert Harrison (see Amherst New Era-Progress, Thursday, July 1, 1976, Bicentennial Edition)
• 3. Obadiah ("Obie") Fitzgerald, 19th Virginia Infantry, Massie's Mill, identified by a great-great-grandson.
• 4. Houston Joyner (see Amherst New Era-Progress, Thursday, July 1, 1976, Bicentennial Edition)
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• 16. Valerius McGinnis (uncertain identification)
• 17. James Madison Garvin, of Monroe, as identified by a resident of old Pera community
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• 26.Thomas Varland Richeson (an Amherst County Supervisor at about the time the photograph was taken; see Amherst County Story). Also identified as Alexander Addison Loving. According to Loving family tradition at one time during the war he spent a night at the church in Nellysford.
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• 31. Believed to be George Henry Simon Wood.
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• 33.Feldon Tyler (see Amherst New Era-Progress, Thursday, July 1, 1976, Bicentennial Edition)
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• 35. John Wesley
• 36. Believed to be James E. Jennings who served in Co. E, Second Virginia Cavalry. Also identified as Captain Bob Eubank (see Amherst New Era-Progress, Thursday, July 1, 1976, Bicentennial Edition)
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• 38. Major William Henry Watts
• 39. This could be William Wilmer.
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