George Garnett Junkin (1837-1895), Stonewall Brigade

George Garnett Junkin (1837-1895)

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D2 George Garnett Junkin, born November 19, 1837 in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, died February 22, 1895. Married 11/05/1862 Sarah Elizabeth "Betty" Montague, born March 27, 1843, died December 18, 1907. Both are buried at Christiansburg, Virginia. Eleven children.

George Garnett graduated from Washington College in 1859 and served in the Civil War in the "Montgomery Fencibles" 4th Regiment, Virginia Infantry, the first of four companies that formed the "Stonewall Brigade". He was a Lt. and A.A.G. on Stonewall Jackson's staff. He was captured on March 3, 1862 at Kernstown, Maryland. He described his capture in brief, but vivid form in a letter written to Gen Jackson on September 10, 1862:

"...several of them seized my horse by the bridle and several of them brought their bayonets to my breast and demanded my surrender. Resistance being but suicide, I surrendered..."

This 6-page letter, which describes his imprisonment and exchange, also offers his resignation as he was requied to give an oath of allegiance to the United States before he could qualify as an exchange prisoner. General Jackson recommended that he re-enlist, and this was approved and signed by General Robert E. Lee, and accepted by the Secretary of War G. W. Randolph on October 23, 1862.

George Garnett Junkin was appointed Captain on November 15, 1862 in command of Company E, 27th Battalion, Virginia Mounted Rifles. On September 19, 1864, he was badly wounded, He was again wounded on April 12, 1865 by a Michigan Calvary Regiment, three days after Lee's surrender, thereby making him the last man wounded on Virginia soil in the Civil War conflict.

He practiced law in Christiansburg, Virginia, and was serving as Commonwealth Attorney for the state of Virginia at the time of his death.

Children of George Garnett Junkin and Sarah Elizabeth Montague:

E1 Janet Montague Junkin

John C. Stevens

E2 Rev. William McCleery Junkin, born December 13, 1865, died January 2, 1908 in Chunju, Korea; Married June 27, 1892 Mary Leyburn, born 1866, died 1952.

E3 Daniel Montague Junkin, born May 17, 1868, died April 16, 1920; Married October 11, 1892 Kate Taylor Wade, born 1869, died 1951.

E4 Francis Marion Junkin, born April 22, 1872, died January 28, 1906, in Kyle, Virginia; Married October 15, 1897 Emma Miller, born 1874, died 1959. Three children.

E5 Garnett Booker Junkin, born June 1875, died December 14, 1955; Married December 12, 1900 Huldah Penn, born 1880, died 1918. Four children.

E6 Mary McClannahan Junkin, born April 19, 1876, died January 14, 1938 in Christiansburg, Virginia; Married October 16, 1901 William James Edelen, died 1925. Three children.

E7 Colin Bass Junkin, born March, 1878 in Christiansburg, Virginia, died October, 1906 in Philadelphia. Single.

E8 George Garnett Junkin, Jr., born May 29, 1880 in Christiansburg, Virginia, died March 10, 1921, in Algoma, West Virginia, Single.

E9 Helen Tallant Junkin, born March 1883, died September 11, 1949. Married January 26, 1906 John Ravenscroft Eoff, Jr. Three children.

E10 Judith Montague Junkin, born May 21, 1885, died 1931 in Mattoon, Illinois; Married January 22, 1908 Arthur W. Arnold. Three children.

E11 Margaret Wade Junkin, born June 1887, died July 1932 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Married June 17, 1915 Aubrey Craig Hawley. One child.

The Joseph Junkin Family Tree is a collection of information gathered by Eric & Liz Davis, Mary Eleanor Bell, Alice Erma Bell, Margaret A. Killian, Laura Gayle Junkin, Winston Ray Norris, Joyce Ann Junkin, Barbara Ann Millner, and many others. The html version was initiated by Eric and Elizabeth Fisher-Davis in 1998 .

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