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Mathews-Williams Family Genealogy
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William Henry Cabell, (First Sergeant, Company D) was a VMI cadet killed, at the age of 18, at the Battle of New Market, during the Civil War. He was killed instantly by the explosion of a shell before he reached the Bushong Farm. His body was found by his younger brother, Robert, a member of Company B, who had gone back over the battlefield to search for him. He was temporarily buried at New Market, then reburied at Hollywood Cemetery, in Richmond, Virginia, next to his mother's ashes. While a cadet, he had ranked first in his class of twenty-four. He also had an older brother serving in the volunteer army. Ironically, William became a VMI cadet at the urging of his father, who thought that, at William's young age, it presented a better alternative than going off to war.
Robert Gamble Cabell was educated at VMI; was in the Cadet (CSA) charge at the battle of New Market, May 15, 1864; was at one time superintendent of the Central Lunatic Asylum of Virginia. He was a prominent druggist in Richmond, Virginia.