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Gravestone of the first man killed in the Revolutionary War, Westminster, VT.
It reads: In Memory of William French, Son of Mr. Nathaniel French, Who Was Shot at Westminster, march y 13th, 1775, by the hands of Cruel Ministereal fools of Gerogy 3; in the Corthouse, at a 11 a Clock at Night, in the 22d year of his Age.
Here William French his Body lies. For Murder his Blood for Vengance cries. King Georg the third his Tory crew tha with a brawl his shot threw. For Liberty and his Countrys Good. he Lost his life his Dearest blood. Source: Library of Congress; Detroit Publishing Co.
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John W. Anthony
John W. Anthony, a 19-year-old farmer from Campbell County, Virginia, enlisted with the Southern Guards Company B, 11th Virginia Infantry, on April 23, 1861. During the American Civil War, this Confederate army regiment fought at Manassas on July 21st, and the first members of the regiment fell in battle at Dranesville, Virginia, the following December 20th.
Anthony was wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines on May 31. He was
wounded again on September 15th of that year. He obtained a reprieve from the fighting on February 26th, 1863, by furnishing a substitute, Patrick Murry. However, Murry is on the record as deserting the very next day. Whatever happened, Anthony was back at war on or about April 1st, 1865, when he was again wounded, at Five Forks, Virginia.
On April 25, 1865, during the Battle of Petersburg, Anthony received a gunshot to his right thigh and was hospitalized. But he survived to see the end of the war, and many more years. He died on November 8th, 1920, in Campbell County, Virginia, and was laid to rest in his family cemetery at Evington.
Compiled by: Ann Tyler Moses
