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MONROE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: CHAPMAN, Henly
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
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September 18, 1999
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A History of Monroe County West Virginia, Oren F. Morton, 1916, p. 324-325
Henly Chapman
Henly married Mary Alexander. Their children were: Augustus A.
(1803-1876) (Mary B. Beirne, 1830)-Manilius (Susan Beirne)-Mrs.
French-Mrs. Albert G. Pendleton-Mrs. P. Cecil. C. of A. A.-Henley
C-William C.-George B-Christopher J. (Ark.)-Ann (Col. John J.
Wade)~Frances F. (Michael A. Steele, Mo.)-Susan (s)-Ella J. ( Orr).
Augustus A. Chapman was a gentleman of fine presence, cultivated manners, and
ripe scholarship. He was an able lawyer, a finished orator, and almost
invincible in courts or in political debates. His memory is held in great
respect, largely because of the fact that in criminal cases he was always the
defender and never the prosecutor. He served his county in the Virginia
Assembly and his state in the 28th Congress (1843-45). At the outbreak of the
American war he was a brigadier general of militia. As such he took the
field with his command in 1861 and per-formed good service during the
campaign of that season in the Kanawha valley. He died of apoplexy on his way
to Charleston to nominate for the governorship his friend H B Mathews His
oldest son died in 1858 just after his graduation. The second died in boyhood
The third, best known as Beirne, was a young man of great promise a natural
orator, and looking forward to the profession of law At the opening of
hostilities he quit his studies to become first lieutenant of Lowry's
Battery. After some months he resigned in order to organize the artillery
company ever since known as Chapman's Battery. This command did gallant
service un til almost annihilated and its beloved captain mortally wounded at
Winchester, Sept. 19, 1864.
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