Wickham, Williams Carter

Life Span
to
Full name
Williams Carter Wickham
Place of Birth
Richmond, VA
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
South
Origins
Slave State
Family
William Fanning Wickham (father), Anne Butler Carter (mother), Lucy Penn Taylor (wife)
Education
University of Virginia
Occupation
Attorney or Judge
Businessman
Political Parties
Republican
Union (Unconditional Union, National Union)
Military
Confederate Army
Date Event
- The Virginia Convention on secession is meeting in Richmond
Union cavalry try to break through the Confederate cavalry screen at Aldie in Loudoun County, Virginia
Stuart's cavalrymen destroy the U.S. Army's Cavalry School at Carlisle Barracks
In the Shenandoah Valley, Union troops under Sheridan turn defeat into crushing victory at the Battle of Cedar Creek
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