MONROE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: CHAPMAN, Henly
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A History of Monroe County, West Virginia
Oren F. Morton, B. Lit.
Staunton, VA
The McClure Company, Inc.
1916
p. 324-325

HENLY CHAPMAN

Henly married Mary Alexander. Their children were: Augustus A.
(1803-1876)  (Mary B. Beirne, 1830)-Manilius (Susan Beirne)-Mrs.
French-Mrs. Albert G. Pendleton-Mrs. P. Cecil. C. of A. A.-Henley
C-William C.-George B-Christopher 3. (Ark. )-Ann (Col. John 3.
Wade)-Frances F. (Michael A. Steele, Mo.)-Susan (s)-Ella J. ( Orr).
Augustus A. Chapman was a gentleman of fine presence, cultivated manners, and 
ripe scholarship. He was an able lawyer, a finished orator, and almost 
invincible in courts or in political debates. His memory is held in great 
respect, largely because of the fact that in criminal cases he was always the 
defender and never the prosecutor. He served his county in the Virginia 
Assembly and his State in the 28th Congress (1843-45). At the outbreak of the 
American war he was a brigadier general of militia.  As such he took the 
field with his command in 1861 and performed good service during the campaign 
of that season in the Kanawha valley. He died of apoplexy on his way to 
Charleston to nominate for the governorship his friend, H. B. Mathews.  His 
oldest son died in 1858 iust after his graduation. The second died in 
boyhood. The third, best known as Beirne, was a young man of great promise, a 
natural orator, and looking forward to the profession of law.  At the opening 
of hostilities he quit his studies to become first lieutenant of Lowry's 
Battery. After some months he resigued in order to organize the artillery 
company ever since known as Chapman's Battery. This command did gallant 
service until almost annihilated and its beloved captain mortally wounded at 
Winchester, Sept. 19,1864.