Capt. R. P. Jennings,A Confederate Among Yankees

Part 4 – Age 16, just getting started
  • Capt. R. P. Jennings,A Confederate Among Yankees
    Capt. R. P. Jennings,A Confederate Among Yankees
  • The Brooklyn Post Office in Halifax County, Virginia, where men enlisted in Company E of the 23rd Virginia Infantry. It is now on the National Register of Historic Places. Ginger and Mack Gentry restored it, as well as the Brooklyn Tobacco Factory.
    The Brooklyn Post Office in Halifax County, Virginia, where men enlisted in Company E of the 23rd Virginia Infantry. It is now on the National Register of Historic Places. Ginger and Mack Gentry restored it, as well as the Brooklyn Tobacco Factory.
  • The house at Elm Hill, where Jennings grew up, shared by Ginger and Mack Gentry. The house is long gone.
    The house at Elm Hill, where Jennings grew up, shared by Ginger and Mack Gentry. The house is long gone.
    In June 1861, Richard Polk Jennings was 16 years old. In today’s world, he might be in his junior year of high school. He might have finished the football season, perhaps looking forward to basketball, or even track. Jennings took a different path.Halfway through his 16th year, he was carrying a rifle, not a football. He was not “traveling” on a basketball court nor contemplating a...

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