He enlisted into Company I of the Fourth Virginia Cavalry on May 8th, 1861 and became a staff officer for Joseph Reid Anderson and Beverly Holcombe Robertson.
His wife, Mary Triplett Haxall, was a famous young Richmond beauty of the early 1870s. A former beau of hers, William Page McCarty, was alleged to have written a slightly risque poem about her that appeared in the Richmond Enquirer newspaper. As a result, in 1873, McCarty and another beau, John B. Mordecai, fought a duel in which Mordecai was killed. It was Richmond's last formal duel.
President of the Grain and Cotton Exchange in Richmond and President of Haxall-Crenshaw Company, Richmond.
His wife, Mary Triplett Haxall, was a famous young Richmond beauty of the early 1870s. A former beau of hers, William Page McCarty, was alleged to have written a slightly risque poem about her that appeared in the Richmond Enquirer newspaper. As a result, in 1873, McCarty and another beau, John B. Mordecai, fought a duel in which Mordecai was killed. It was Richmond's last formal duel.
President of the Grain and Cotton Exchange in Richmond and President of Haxall-Crenshaw Company, Richmond.
He enlisted into Company I of the Fourth Virginia Cavalry on May 8th, 1861 and became a staff officer for Joseph Reid Anderson and Beverly Holcombe Robertson.
His wife, Mary Triplett Haxall, was a famous young Richmond beauty of the early 1870s. A former beau of hers, William Page McCarty, was alleged to have written a slightly risque poem about her that appeared in the Richmond Enquirer newspaper. As a result, in 1873, McCarty and another beau, John B. Mordecai, fought a duel in which Mordecai was killed. It was Richmond's last formal duel.
President of the Grain and Cotton Exchange in Richmond and President of Haxall-Crenshaw Company, Richmond.
His wife, Mary Triplett Haxall, was a famous young Richmond beauty of the early 1870s. A former beau of hers, William Page McCarty, was alleged to have written a slightly risque poem about her that appeared in the Richmond Enquirer newspaper. As a result, in 1873, McCarty and another beau, John B. Mordecai, fought a duel in which Mordecai was killed. It was Richmond's last formal duel.
President of the Grain and Cotton Exchange in Richmond and President of Haxall-Crenshaw Company, Richmond.
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