History of Lombardy Grove, (Mecklenburg County) Virginia United States of America

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James Daniel Lynch, author, was born near Old Lombardy Grove, Mecklenburg county, Va., Jan. 6, 1836; son of James Daniel and Frances Gregory (Baird) Lynch, and grandson of Charles William and Frances (Gregory) Baird. His father was a member of the family which rounded the city of Lynchburg, and his mother a descendant of the famous Dr. John Gregory of Scotland, and of the Claibornes of Virginia. Having lost his father in his infancy he was adopted and reared by his maternal grandfather. He was matriculated at the University of North Carolina, with the class of 1859, but withdrew at the close of his junior year on account of ill health, and returned to his grandfather's home in Virginia. He was assistant teacher in the Franklin academy, Columbus, Miss., in 1860. He was married in February, 1861, to Hettie Martin Cochran of Lowndes county. Soon afterward he joined the Confederate army, and served as a private until after the Shiloh campaign, when he was forced to retire on account of ill health. Later he organized a company of cavalry, and served under General Wheeler, being seriously wounded at Lafayette, Ga., and was subsequently taken prisoner while making a cavalry charge near Rome, Ga., but escaped at Resaca while en route to Johnson's Island. He was afterward transferred to the Nitre and Mining bureau at Selma, Ala., of which he was in charge at Gainesville at the close of the war. After the war he practised law at West Point, Miss., until obliged to retire from the bar on account of defective hearing. He then devoted himself to literary work. He is the author of numerous poems, including Robert E. Lee, or the Heroes of the South (1876); The Ku-Klux Tribunal (1878); The Clock of Destiny (1878); The Siege of the Alamo (1884); The North Carolina University Centennial Ode (1895); and Columbia Saluting the Nations, the last named being adopted by the World's Columbian Commission, in 1893, as the welcome of the United States to the nations of the world. The Siege of the Alamo was printed on parchment, framed, and hung on the walls of the fortress by order of the governor of Texas. His prose works include: Kemper County Vindicated, or a Peep at Reconstruction in Mississippi (1878); Bench and Bar of Mississippi (1880); Bench and Bar of Texas (1885); A History of the Five Civilized Nations (1901).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Lombardy Grove, (Mecklenburg County) Virginia

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