United States Congressman from Virginia

Member of the Confederate secession convention at Richmond in 1861

Colonel 6th Virginia Cavalry, Confederate States of America

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(1811-83) Born on December 15, 1811, in Prince Edward County, Va., he graduated from Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia in 1831. Hampden-Sydney was founded in 1775, and is the oldest privately chartered college in the southern United States. He started his career as a private teacher; then studied law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in 1834, at Halifax, Va. He served as a U.S. Congressman, from 1847-49, and in 1855, he ran for the position of Governor of Virginia representing the American Party but he was defeated. He was a member of the Confederate secession convention at Richmond, Va., in 1861, representing his native Virginia. At the start of the War Between the States, Flournoy joined the Southern army, and in 1861 he raised a company of cavalry that was mustered into Confederate service as Company G, 6th Virginia Cavalry, with Flournoy elected their captain. He was promoted to colonel of the regiment on July 16, 1862. His son, Cabell Edward Flournoy, served in the same regiment with his father and was Captain of Company E. The younger Flourney was promoted to Major, on July 15, 1862, and was killed in action in Virginia almost 2 years later on June 4, 1864. Colonel T.F. Flournoy tried again in 1863 to be elected as the Governor of Virginia, but once again he was unsuccessful. After the war he settled in Danville, Va., where he returned to his law practice, and in 1876 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention at St. Louis, Missouri. It was the first political convention held west of the Mississippi River. Thomas Stanhope Flournoy died at his home in Halifax County, Va., on March 12, 1883, and is interred in his family's plot on his estate.

Signature with State: 6 1/2 x 1, in ink, T. Stanhope Flournoy, Virginia.

WBTS Trivia: The 6th Virginia Cavalry served in Robertson's, W.E. Jones, Lomax's and Payne's Brigades, Army of Northern Virginia. The regiment fought in General Stonewall Jackson's celebrated 1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign, as well as at the battles of 2nd Manassas, Brandy Station, Upperville, Fairfield, Bristoe, Mine Run, The Wilderness, Todd's Tavern, Spotsylvania, Haw's Shop, and Cold Harbor. The regiment also participated in General Jubal A. Early's Shenandoah Valley campaign, and in the Appomattox campaign. When the regiment surrendered on April 9, 1865, they had only 3 men left!