Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Howell, Julius, 1948 

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JULIUS HOWELL

   Bristol, June 19 - General Julius Howell, whose 102d birthday was observed 
here January 17, died at 8:30 p.m. tonight at his home here after an illness of 
three weeks.

   The former president of Virginia Intermont College was known as the last 
survivor of Longstreet’s Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia. His birthday on 
January 17 was celebrated as "General Howell Day."

   He was a former commander in chief of the United Confederate Veterans,

   Born in Nansemond County, Va., on January 17, 1846, Howell enlisted at the 
age of 15 in the Confederate Army. He served as a courier on the staffs of Gen. 
Roger W. Prior, of Virginia, and Gen. John Braxton, of North Carolina, both 
cavalry commanders.*

   He was captured three days before the surrender at Appomattox, and spent 
three months as a Union prisoner at Point Lookout, Md.  He was discharged as a 
corporal at Fort Monroe, Va.

   His title as general stems from his two terms as national commander in chief 
of the United Confederate Veterans in 1939 and 1940.

   After the war he attended Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, earning 
degrees as master of arts in history and a doctor of laws.

   He served as a school superintendent in Arkansas after that, and was late, 
appointed to the chair of history at the University of Arkansas. He subsequently 
became president of the Mountain Home, Ark., Baptist College.

   In 1901 he came to Bristol as president of Virginia Intermont College. When 
he retired at Virginia Intermont, he entered the insurance business, and 
actively conducted his insurance agency until recently.

   In addition to his work with insurance, he was active in religious, 
educational and other activities of the city. He served as treasurer and 
honorary deacon of the First Baptist Church, was an honorary member of the 
Bristol Rotary Club, was chairman of the board of trustees of Virginia Intermont 
College, and a member of the Tennessee Confederate Pension Board.

   He was also for many years a member of the Bristol School Board.

   His 102nd birthday in January was the occasion for a celebration in which 
Movie Star Mary Pickford. Governor William M. Tuck, of Virginia, and Governor 
Jim Nancy McCord, of Tennessee; Mrs. Helen Dortch Longstreet, widow of Gen James 
A. Longstreet under whom Howell served, all took part.

[*Gen. Roger A. Pryor was not a cavalry commander.] 

[Gen. Julius HOWELL, b. 17 Jan 1846, Nansemond Co., d. 19 Jun 1948, Bristol, 
 donated obit, newspaper unknown, dateline June 19, 1948] 

[file transcribed by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
 and re-formatted by File Manager.]