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About George G. Junkin
- George Garnett Junkin (November 19, 1839 – February 22, 1895) was a teacher, member of the Confederate Army, lawyer, county superintendent of schools, judge of the County Court, and Commonswealth's attorney. Junkin was born in Milton, Pennsylvania.
- His father was Rev.
- David Xavier Junkin, D.
- D., a renowned minister.
- Junkin was a nephew of Rev.
- George Junkin, D.
- D., who became president of Washington College (predecessor of Washington and Lee University). Ganett graduated from Washington College in Virginia in 1859.
- He came to Christiansburg as an assistant to Captain W.
- C.
- Hagan and taught at Montgomery Male Academy Christiansburg, Virginia. On November 5, 1862, he married Betty Montague November 5, 1862.
- Her father was R.
- D.
- Montague, Esq., who clerked for the circuit and county courts in the area.
- They had 12 children. A Presbyterian, he was a church deacon and member of the board of trustees of Washington & Lee University. He enlisted as a private in the so-called "Fensibles" which went to the front from Montgomery County under Stonewall Jackson's command.
- He served in the Fourth Virginia Infantry during the American Civil War.
- Junkin joined was Gen.
- Jackson's staff and served as staff Officer until he was captured at Kernstown.
- After his return to the Confederate Army he was appointed to the command of Company E, 25th Virginia Infantry. After receiving pleas from his father that his mother was in a bad way and needed her son, he pledged an oath of loyalty to the Union.
- But after discovering he was deceived and that she was in good health he returned to the Confederacy and joined a cavalry regiment.
- He was the last Confederate soldier injured in Virginia.
- He was one of four Confederate soldiers injured in an attack on Union soldiers near Christiansburg 3 days after General Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
- The skirmish is known as the Battle of Seven Mile Tree.
- Two member of a cavalry regiment from Michigan were killed.He is buried at Sunset cemetery in Christiansburg.
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