Last Volley at Appomattox Court House and the Apple Tree

Collection

Identifier: MSS-219

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Typed transcript of a history written by C.W. Babbit of the Ist Regiment, Engineer Troops, Army of Northern Virginia, concerns Lee's surrender at the close of the war. Transcribed by J.P. Sessions, March 22, 1944, recopied by Elizabeth Sessions Power (1960) and Dorothy Sturdivant Cavin (1960).

Dates

undated

Creator

Babbit, C.W. (Creator, Person)

Access Restrictions

Open to all researchers.

Use Restrictions

Any requests for permission to publish, quote, or reproduce materials from this collection must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian for Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Mississippi State University as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Biographical Note

Charles Winthrop (C.W.) Babbit, son of Charles Winthrop Babbitt (1799-1837) and Frances Brooks Newman (1806-1887) was born in July 1835 in Natchez, MS. He was a 1st Lietenant in the Natchez Rifles, Co. E., 4th Louisiana Battalion, Gibson’s Brigade, He married Alinia Grigsby Darst (1846-1873) in 1864, and they had the following children: Charles Darst Babbitt (1865-1922), James Surget Babbitt (1868-1884) and John Walter Babbitt (1870-1945). He also had a daughter, Frances Newman Babbitt (1878-1908), with his second wife, Amanda Babbitt.

After the war Babbitt had a career as a city engineer for Natchez civil engineer in SW Mississippi and Louisiana. He died in 1903, after suffering stroke while working in the Natchez City Cemetery.

Source: ‘C.W. Babbitt Stricken with Paralysis”, Natchez Democrat, 8/1/1903, p.4 and “Funeral of C.W. Babbitt,” Natchez Democrat, 8/4/1903, p.8, FindaGrave.com record for Charles Winthrop Babbitt, and the Babbitt Family Tree (https://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.php/Charles-Winthrop-Babbitt/p707344)