Berkeley County WV Archives Biographies.....Colston, Raleigh T. 1834 - 1863
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Author: Virgil A. Lewis

Raleigh T. Colston, Lieutenant-Colonel of the 2d Virginia Infantry, Confederate
Army, resided at Honeywood, in this county. He was born in Richmond, Virginia,
February 18, 1834. His mother, S. Jane, was the daughter of Judge William
Brockenbrough, of the Virginia Court of Appeals. His father, Colonel Edward
Colston, was the son of Raleigh Colston and Elizabeth Marshall Colston, the
sister of Chief Justice Marshall. The subject of this sketch entered the
Virginia Military Institute in the summer of 1850, but in the following year was
called home by the death of his father, and then remained engaged in the
management of the family estate. Soon after Brown's attempted insurrection at
Harper's Ferry a military company was organized in this county, of which young
Colston became captain ; and when it became apparent that civil war was
inevitable, the company rendezvoused at Hedgesville, and thence marched to
Harper's Ferry, where it was enrolled as Company "E," zd Virginia Infantry, then
commanded by Colonel Thomas J. Jackson. From that time until his death his
fortune was that of the famous " Stonewall Brigade." On the morning of November
27, 1863, while leading his regiment -— of which he was Lieutenant-Colonel —-
into action, his leg was shattered by a ball and he was taken to the rear, where
the wounded limb was amputated. He was then taken to Gordonsville, where, at the
home of a relative, John B. Minor, he soon died from the effects of an attack of
pneumonia, brought on by exposure to cold and rain after he received his wound.


Additional Comments:
From History of West Virginia in Two Parts by Virgil A. Lewis, Berkeley County
entry.


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