- Handwritten note dated May 30, 1958 “Crosses of Military Service” [“CMS”] presented by Mary Custis Lee Chapter UDC . - Newspaper clipping unattributed and undated o Eugene W. Bare, private, first class, entered into service Nov 16, 1917, medical department, 317th Infantry. 80th division; transferred to 320th Infantry, served 12 months and 4 days in France and was honorably discharged at Camp Dix, NJ, Jun 9, 1919. He is a grandson of William R. Wilbourn, private Co. 1, 4th Virginia Infantry, who was captured near Petersburg, imprisoned at Point Lookout, MD., and was released Jun 19, 1865 o Walter Bingham, private first class, entered into service Jul 30, 1917, U.S. Marine Corps, received training at Paris Island and at Navy Yard in WashDC. Was honorably discharged Mar 8, 1919 having served 19 months and 8 days. He is the grandson of Christopher F. Bingham, private Co.s B & I, 38th Virginia infantry who served until the close of the Civil War o Edward H. Seal entered into service Nov 7, 1917 as yeoman, Navy Depart WashDC, was promoted to ensign, received training at Annapolis, transferred to USS Mahomet and was honorably discharged Nov 7, 1921. He is a grandson of John J. Rhodes, private, Co. K, 5th Virginia Infantry, who was captured by Union forces and held in Camp Chase until Jun 11, 1865. Seal is listed as an attorney and assistant corporation counsel, District of Columbia. o Alexander Zollman, private Co. C, 14th Virginia cavalry (medal given to his daughter) o John J. Rhodes, private, Co. K, 5th Virginia infantry (medal given to his daughter) o John Illig, private, afterwards detached as bandsman, Co. I, 1st Virginia Infantry (medal given to his daughter) o David H. Moore, private, Co. C, 42nd Virginia Infantry. At close of war he held the rank of sergeant (medal given to his daughter) - CMS (WWII) William White Ackerly entered into service Fort Meade as Captain of Corps of Military Police Mar 20, 1942, honorably discharged as Major CMP 0-178776 Jun 9, 1944 grandfather John Milton White Lieutenant Co. E 34th VA Infantry – served 4 years of Civil War participating in all engagements of his command-Seven Pines, Williamsburg, The Crater, Hatcher’s Run; helped in construction of defenses of Richmond and Petersburg. Taken prisoner at Hatcher’s Run Mar 31, 1865. Imprisoned at Johnson’s Island, Lake Erie from which he was released Jun 17, 1865 - CMS (WWI) Charles W. Dunlap private Ordnance Dept entered into service Dec 15, 1917 discharged as Ordnance Sergeant Jul 26 1919 served with AEF in France grandfather James Sutton Mebane Co. A McGehee’s Regiment Arkansas Cavalry - CMS (WWI and Spanish American War) George M. Brooke entered into service Aug 6, 1897 honorably discharged as colonel in 76th Division Oct 19, 1919; father John Mercer Brooke Chief of Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography CSA Navy Dept - CMS (WWI) William Shields of Brooklyn NY Co. L 319th Infantry entered into service Sep 1, 1917 honorably discharged Oct 13, 1919 as 2nd Lieutenant (record includes discharge paper) grandfather was John C. Shields 1st Regiment Richmond Howitzers appointed Lieutenant Colonel Jun 20, 1862 - CMS (WWI) Charles William Agnor entered into service May 23, 1918 as private Military Police Camp Raritan NJ discharged Mar 4, 1919 [asst mgr. of ABC store in Lexington, VA at time of CMS application] grandfather Jacob Henry Wilmore Co. C 1st Virginia Cavalry - CMS (WWI) Rev. Joseph James Murray served as First Lieutenant and Chaplain from Jul 6, 1918 to Jun 3, 1919 grandfather Capt. Henry Sterling Libby first a privateer then a Blockade Runner Charleston SC commanded “Hattie” $1500 offered for his capture dead or alive - CMS (Spanish American War) Harry Morton Quisenberry served as private 2nd Company United States Signal Corp Jun 15, 1898 in Cuba discharged Apr 1899; grandfather Richard Quisenberry served in Co. C 5th VA Infantry killed at Battle of Chancellorsville May 3, 1863 - CMS (WWI) Elwood Howard Seal entered into service Nov 7, 1917 as Yeoman Navy Department served on USS West Mahomet discharged Nov 7, 1921 as Yeoman III Class to Ensign Supply Corps [certificate photocopy included in app] grandfather John J. Rhodes Co. K 5th Infantry CSA 4 - CMS (WWI) William Walden Kester entered into service Aug 4, 1917 Battery F. 111th Field Artillery (Rockbridge Artillery) [high school principal at time of enlistment] discharged as Sergeant; grandfather Morgan F. Seal private 27th VA Infantry Rockbridge Rifles - CMS (WWI) Edwin Gwynn Pole entered into service as a mechanic 534th Section US Army Ambulance Service May 31, 1917 discharged as Sergeant Oct 2, 1919 grandfather John J. Hileman Co. H. 27th VA wounded at First Manassas and Gettysburg - CMS (WWI) Robert Reid Agnor entered into service in Medical Dept May 23, 1918 321st Field Hospital 81st Division discharged as Private 1st Class Jun 25, 1919 [“after the armistice was transferred to VMI Military Police Company AEF”] grandfather Thomas Bolen Agnor Co. H 27th VA Infantry - CMS (WWI) James Nephew Caperton entered into service as West Point 2nd Lt. on Sep 5, 1916 promoted 1st Lt, Capt, Major, Lt. Col., Col (Temp) father Hugh Caperton corporal Co. D 27th VA Infantry - CMS (WWI) Samuel G. Fix entered into service May 23, 1918 323rd Infantry 81st Division honorably discharged as a private on Jun 26, 1919 grandfather Abraham McFadden Co. E. 27th VA Infantry Rockbridge Rifles killed in action in 1863 at second Battle of Winchester – includes handwritten United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) “speech” regarding “Samuel G. Fix presentation of award of military service lineal descendant of Abraham McFadden Co. E 27th VA” - CMS (WWI) Eugene W. Bare entered into service Nov 16, 1917 Medical Dept 317th Infantry 80th Division honorably discharged Jun 9, 1919 grandfather William R. Wilbourn Co. I 4th VA Infantry captured near Petersburg and imprisoned at Point Lookout - CMS (WWI) Lurty E. Fifer entered into service May 25, 1918 private Co. B. 351st Infantry 88th Division grandfather Christian Yeakel private Co. E. 10th regiment VA Infantry known as “Rockingham Rifles” - CMS (WWI) Edward P. Bell entered into service Sep 18, 1917 Co. G 38th Infantry 3rd Division corporal father A. Nelson Bell Co. K 14th VA Cavalry (“afterward served in Bryan’s Battery”) - CMS (WWI) Walter Bingham entered into service Jul 30, 1917 U.S. Marine Corps private first class grandfather Christopher F. Bingham private 20th Battalion Virginia Heavy Artillery, 38th Regiment Virginia Infantry(“served under Captain Kyle and Captains J.S. & W.W. Wood”) - CMS (WWI) Robert D. Beeton entered into service Feb 20, 1917 Co. K.Int.MD.Infantry later Co.K 115th U.S. Inf 29th Division transferred to Bat E 111th F.A. (Rockbridge Art.) bugler grandfather John Henry Beeton Co. H 27th VA Inf - CMS (WWI) James Jones White entered into service Oct 1917 303rd Tank Battalion (was at Walter Reid Hospital from time of his return from overseas until his death except for short visits to Lexington on sick leave) influenza and pneumonia / grandfather Captain James Jones White Liberty Hall Volunteers - CMS (Spanish American War) Charles Perry Lackey entered into service Jun 22, 1898 private Co. K 2nd Regiment of VA Volunteers father William Robert Lackey Co. H 14th VA Cavalry Rockbridge 2nd Dragoons - CMS (WWI) James Edgar Dixon entered into service Apr 3, 1918 Co. C 38th Infantry 3rd Division promoted from private to corporal grandfather William K. Eckard Co. I of 4th VA infantry - CMS (WWI) Henry I. Hickman entered into service May 24, 1918 3rd provisional Convalescent Company grandfather H. J. V. Withrow Company H. 25th VA Infantry captured at Petersburg taken to Point Lookout prison - CMS (WWI) William Dandridge Alexander Anderson entered into service via West Point in 1900 served until his death on July 16, 1934 Col. U.S. Army Engineers father William Alexander Anderson Co. I 4th VA Infantry Liberty Hall Volunteers[Vol 6 Strickler historical papers Page 111] - CMS (WWl) Matthew White Paxton, Jr. “entered into service” at Officer Training School in Plattsburg, NY Jun 1918, honorably discharged as 2nd Lieutenant Infantry 161st Depot Brigade Dec 20, 1918 (never posted overseas) grandfather E. Frank Paxton Co. H 28th VA Infantry (i.e., “Bull Paxton who died at Chancellorsville May 3, 1863”) - CMS (WWI) Wallace W. Reid entered into service Jun 24, 1918 private first class Hdq. 7th Division 3 Bt. D.G. grandfather William H. Reid Co. E 52nd - CMS (WWI) Alfred Guardner Hutton First Lieutenant Veterinary Corp Apr 14, 1918 grandfather Alfred A. McCundy Co. H 25th VA Infantry wounded at Hatchers Run [from “master rolls of Companies of Rockbridge County pages 42 & 43 kept in vault of Clerk’s Office Rockbridge County Courthouse] - CMS (WWI) Walter Mebane Dunlap entered into service Sep 8, 1917 Captain – Dental Corps 113th Infantry 29th Division grandfather James Sutton Mebane Co. A McGehee’s Regimen t, Arkansas Cavalry CSA - “Cross of Military Service Information Sheet” (procedures for award) - CMS (WWI) Harold Chase Woodward entered into service Apr 19, 1917 Major 305th Inf, 22nd Inf Hdqrts staff grandfather Edwin McCubbin Co. B 3rd VA (?) - CMS (WWII) Robert Clark Walker entered into service Apr 1, 1943 Lieutenant U.S. Naval Reserve grandfather William Shelton Humphries Co. E. 5th VA - CMS (Korea) Charles Carroll Maccubbin Woodward entered into service Jun 12, 1951 (upon graduation from VMI) as 2nd Lt. A Co. 7th Marines 1st Marine Division ultimately promoted to Captain of Quantico great grandfather Edwin Maccubbin Co. B 3rd VA (?) - CMS (WWII) William Albin Magee entered into service Jan 7, 1944 US Naval Reserve ensign Supply Corps grandfather William Shelton Humphries Co. E 5th VA - CMS (WWII) Billy Sheridan Holland entered into service Jul 23, 1941 ultimately Captain in 8th Army Air Force / Wing Legal Officer – Major grandfather John Sheridan Co. C 14th VA Cavalry - CMS (WWII) Leo Gibbons Sheridan Holland entered into service Jan 20, 1942 S/Sgt Radioman on B-24 Bomber Army Air Corps crashed in Pacific grandfather John Sheridan Co. C 14th VA Cavalry - CMS (WWII) Robert Edward Holland, Jr. entered into service Feb 1941 Navy Air Corps – Pilot on Navy fighter plane (Hornet; USS Core) grandfather Co. C 14th VA Cavalry - CMS (WWII) Felix Claudius Feamster entered into service Jul 1, 1941 Lt. Col. US Army Medical Corps commanded 327th Medical Bat of 102nd Division 9th Army; later Division Surgeon of Patton’s 4th Armored Division and chief Surgeon of Patton’s 4th Armored Division grandfather Thomas Lewis Feamster Co. A 14th VA Cavalry - CMS (WWII) Robert Cantrell Feamster entered into service May 4, 1942 U.S. Army Medical Corps Major grandfather Thomas Lewis Feamster Co. A 14th VA Cavalry - CMS (WWII) John William Johnston entered into service Jul 8, 1943 20th Armed Air Force 1st Lt. grandfather William Finley Johnston Rockbridge Artillery - CMS (WWII) William Heath Rowe Navy Seaman First Class entered into service Feb 27, 1946 great grandfather William Spain Younger Co. I 26th VA Infantry - CMS (WWI) William Cole Davis entered into service Sep 1909 Medical Corps of U.S. Army discharged as Major father James Cole Davis Rockbridge Artillery - CMS (WWII) Joseph Humphries Magee entered into service Nov 16,1942 Medical Detachment 309th Inf, 78th Division grandfather William Shelton Humphries Co. E 5th VA - CMS (WWII) John Seymour Letcher entered into service Aug 1, 1927 US Marine Corps ultimately Colonel in command of Marine Barracks, Naval Station, Norfolk grandfather John Letcher (“War Governor of VA”) - Loose copy of record for Erastus T. Greiner Co. H 27th VA Infantry CSA -penciled receipt dated Sep 17, 1954 “received of Mrs. James S. Moffatt” papers concerning “persons who received cross of military service” signed Mrs. J. Harris Thompson