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Randolph Fairfax was a 18?? graduate of Episcopal High School .who joined the Confederate Army. He died at the Battle of Fredericksburg.

Painting of the third Headmaster of EHS (1852-1861) in the collection of Episcopal High School.

The wife of the third Headmaster, John Peyton McGuire. Published her Civil War diaries as Diary of a Southern Refugee during the War

Need to develop: First Headmaster of Episcopal, Episcopal Minister, Confederate General, Organized the Rockbridge Artillery

Image of William Orton Williams, C.S.A. Attended Episcopal High School from 1853-1854

Image of William Orton Williams (right) and his cousin, Walter Gibson Peter (left).

Image of Williams and Peter hanged. Published in Harper's Weekly on July 4, 1863.

Describes the discovery and subsequent hanging of Lawrence Williams Orton (nee William Orton Williams) and Walter Gibson Peter at Fort Granger in Franklin, Tennessee. (Evening Star, June 10, 1863)

Franklin Stringfellow scouted for General Robert E. Lee. Stringfellow became Lee's most famous scout, and was the personal scout for Jeb Stuart. More information can be found on Stringfellow's historical profile page.

a clipping from the Alexandria Gazette which recounts a story of Franklin Stringfellow, the famed Confederate spy. the author goes on to note his choice to become an Episcopalian minister after the war.