Biography of B. F. Morehead - Pulaski Co. VA


B.F. MOREHEAD--was a son of Andrew MOREHEAD, who was born in Pulaski county in 
1795, passed here fifty years and more an honorable, busy life, and died April 
8, 1857. Andrew MOREHEAD married Martha CADDALL, who died in 1842, and their son 
B.F. was born in this county, July 28, 1837. His marriage was solemnized in 
Campbell county, Virginia, December 10, 1857, and his wife is Martha E., 
daughter of George and Sarah E.(WATTS) VERMILLION. She was born in Campbell 
county, October 19, 1839. They have two daughters: Theodocia E., born January 8, 
1859, and Jennie K., born January 4, 1864. Theodocia E. became the wife of A.F. 
BARKER, a druggist of Newbern, April 4, 1883. B.F. MOREHEAD enlisted in 1861, 
Company F, Fifty-Fourth Virginia Infantry, going to Kentucky, where his regiment 
opposed General GARFIELD in a skirmish at Middle Creek. Then they marched into 
Tennessee, then to Georgia, then to take part in the battle of Chickamauga, 
September 19-20, 1863. Then to Missionary ridge, from Dalton to Atlanta, from 
Atlanta to Jonesboro, from which point Mr. MOREHEAD came home on sixty days sick 
leave. When able he joined a portion of his regiment under Colonel TRIGG, 
operating along the line of the Virginia and Tennessee railroad, and he was 
appointed brigade commissary in the winter of 1864. The regiment marched from 
Abbingdon to Wytheville, then to Dublin, and then into Montgomery county, where 
the brigade of which they were a part disbanded. The struggle was over, those 
who had not given life had given everything else, and came home to begin the 
world anew. Mr. MOREHEAD then returned to farming and grazing his farm near 
Thorn Spring, where he continues. His address is Dublin, Pulaski county, 
Virginia.


Submitted by Sherry Crawford

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