* Peter Conway Stone

• Peter Conway Stone[3901] M V T K Y Photo: Still need a photo of him. Best photo: one of him individually, in Confederate uniform. Best medium: TIF file, scanned of photograph at 400 dpi minimum, the higher dpi the better. Next best medium: Reprint, not photocopy, of photograph. Born: “I’ve got the dates from the census. Peter is the older of the two, I think, but I’ll let you know tomorrow.”[3902] “If Peter Conway was 16 in the 1850 Census, then he would have been born in 1834.”[3903] When and where was he born? Married: Was he married? Died: “[H]e died on 9/10/63. He would have been approx. 29 years old when he died.”[3904] Drowned in the Rappahannock River, August, 1863.[3905] Killed while on scout 10 September 1863; body found on Rappahannock River, thought drowned.[3906] “Richard Henry Stone, wrote on Sept. 2, 1863, to [cleric?] Brother Taylor in Richmond saying : ‘I have just been plunged in the deepest grief by the loss of second and last brother [Peter]. His body was found in a mill pond in Fauquier after the enemy had left. Gen. [Stuart] for some reason always kept him in a post of the most unusual peril as he did my other brother. Thus both have perished.’ ”[3907] Obituary: Children: Did he have children? Parents and Siblings: See entry of his brother, John William Stone (BH). Other Family: See entry of John William Stone (BH). Stories, Letters & Biographies: Appointed an official of an absentee election held in the Black Horse troop for state delegate to the national legislature. See Letters Chapter under Charles Henry Gordon. CSR: Enlisted 20 September 1861 Sangster’s Crossroads; picket Accotink Run 4 October 1861; captured 1 December 1862 Fauquier County; Old Capitol Prison 10 December 1862; exchanged 29 March 1863; detached as Scout July

Additional Information: About his civilian occupation, his homestead, his role in the community, etc. “…Peter Conway—he’s… the Blackhorseman who drowned, as the story goes, “trying to get a message to General Stewart [Stuart].” “I will send you the copy of a letter, written from Sparta, Ga. Sept. 2, 1863, in which my great-grandfather, Richard Henry Stone says: “I have just been plunged in the deepest grief… ”[3908] “My thinking on their being in posts of “unusual peril” is because their father, John Stone, owned 1300 acres near Brandy Station and on Mountain Run; therefore, they must have known the terrain well.”[3909] “ ‘In 1876, twenty-one of some 1,100 farms comprised of more than 1,000 acres’: under Brandy area, it says: ‘John Stone, 1200 [acres].’ Most of the property was near Brandy Station and on Mountain Run and Stone’s Mill… [P]art of the land John W. and Peter C. were scouting was some of their father’s own property. They must have know[n] it like the “back of their hands.” ”[3910]