The first president of Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, which is now Virginia Tech. Minor held a Master of Arts Degree from the University of Virginia. He was professor of Latin and director at Sewanee Episcopal Seminary in Tennessee in 1872 when he was elected president of the new college by one vote.
After graduating from the University of Virginia, he taught in Hanover County for three years. When the civil war began he entered the Confederate Army as a private in Mumford's Second Virginia Cavalry Regiment, and saw active service at Manassas, in the Valley campaign under Stonewall Jackson, and in the battles around Richmond. In 1862 he was promoted to captain of ordnance, and was assigned to General Sam Jones in southwest Virginia. His horse was killed from under him at Wytheville. He fought in the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain with General Jenkins. He was with Jenkins, in the thick of the fight, when the General was killed. He and General Jones then went to Charleston, South Carolina, where he commanded the ordnance department there. He soon was assigned to duty as executive officer at the Richmond Arsenal under General Josiah Gorgas, where he remained until the close of the war.
Postwar, he served as president of the Maryland Agricultural College for one year and then ran a private school in Lynchburg. After being removed from the presidency of Virginia Tech, he owned and operated Shenandoah Valley Academy at Winchester. Minor then taught at St. Paul's in Baltimore, and Episcopal High in Alexandria.
He was most successful as a teacher, but he also devoted much time to writing, mostly on political and historical subjects, and the Civil War. He wrote and published "The Real Lincoln" in pamphlet form, and was enlarging it for book form, but was unable to complete it himself. It was published after his death.
After graduating from the University of Virginia, he taught in Hanover County for three years. When the civil war began he entered the Confederate Army as a private in Mumford's Second Virginia Cavalry Regiment, and saw active service at Manassas, in the Valley campaign under Stonewall Jackson, and in the battles around Richmond. In 1862 he was promoted to captain of ordnance, and was assigned to General Sam Jones in southwest Virginia. His horse was killed from under him at Wytheville. He fought in the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain with General Jenkins. He was with Jenkins, in the thick of the fight, when the General was killed. He and General Jones then went to Charleston, South Carolina, where he commanded the ordnance department there. He soon was assigned to duty as executive officer at the Richmond Arsenal under General Josiah Gorgas, where he remained until the close of the war.
Postwar, he served as president of the Maryland Agricultural College for one year and then ran a private school in Lynchburg. After being removed from the presidency of Virginia Tech, he owned and operated Shenandoah Valley Academy at Winchester. Minor then taught at St. Paul's in Baltimore, and Episcopal High in Alexandria.
He was most successful as a teacher, but he also devoted much time to writing, mostly on political and historical subjects, and the Civil War. He wrote and published "The Real Lincoln" in pamphlet form, and was enlarging it for book form, but was unable to complete it himself. It was published after his death.
The first president of Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, which is now Virginia Tech. Minor held a Master of Arts Degree from the University of Virginia. He was professor of Latin and director at Sewanee Episcopal Seminary in Tennessee in 1872 when he was elected president of the new college by one vote.
After graduating from the University of Virginia, he taught in Hanover County for three years. When the civil war began he entered the Confederate Army as a private in Mumford's Second Virginia Cavalry Regiment, and saw active service at Manassas, in the Valley campaign under Stonewall Jackson, and in the battles around Richmond. In 1862 he was promoted to captain of ordnance, and was assigned to General Sam Jones in southwest Virginia. His horse was killed from under him at Wytheville. He fought in the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain with General Jenkins. He was with Jenkins, in the thick of the fight, when the General was killed. He and General Jones then went to Charleston, South Carolina, where he commanded the ordnance department there. He soon was assigned to duty as executive officer at the Richmond Arsenal under General Josiah Gorgas, where he remained until the close of the war.
Postwar, he served as president of the Maryland Agricultural College for one year and then ran a private school in Lynchburg. After being removed from the presidency of Virginia Tech, he owned and operated Shenandoah Valley Academy at Winchester. Minor then taught at St. Paul's in Baltimore, and Episcopal High in Alexandria.
He was most successful as a teacher, but he also devoted much time to writing, mostly on political and historical subjects, and the Civil War. He wrote and published "The Real Lincoln" in pamphlet form, and was enlarging it for book form, but was unable to complete it himself. It was published after his death.
After graduating from the University of Virginia, he taught in Hanover County for three years. When the civil war began he entered the Confederate Army as a private in Mumford's Second Virginia Cavalry Regiment, and saw active service at Manassas, in the Valley campaign under Stonewall Jackson, and in the battles around Richmond. In 1862 he was promoted to captain of ordnance, and was assigned to General Sam Jones in southwest Virginia. His horse was killed from under him at Wytheville. He fought in the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain with General Jenkins. He was with Jenkins, in the thick of the fight, when the General was killed. He and General Jones then went to Charleston, South Carolina, where he commanded the ordnance department there. He soon was assigned to duty as executive officer at the Richmond Arsenal under General Josiah Gorgas, where he remained until the close of the war.
Postwar, he served as president of the Maryland Agricultural College for one year and then ran a private school in Lynchburg. After being removed from the presidency of Virginia Tech, he owned and operated Shenandoah Valley Academy at Winchester. Minor then taught at St. Paul's in Baltimore, and Episcopal High in Alexandria.
He was most successful as a teacher, but he also devoted much time to writing, mostly on political and historical subjects, and the Civil War. He wrote and published "The Real Lincoln" in pamphlet form, and was enlarging it for book form, but was unable to complete it himself. It was published after his death.
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