Makers of America; biographies of leading men of thought and action, the men who constitute the bone and sinew of American prosperity and life . s, had been for the mostpart Virginia farmers. John Chowning had the usual rearingof a boy on a Virginia plantation in the years before the CivilWar. From his seventh until his twelfth vear he attended a *s private school near his home, during the next three years hewas sent to a boarding school at Lancaster Court House, andthen spent one year at Bloomfield Academy in AlbemarleCounty. He afterwards became a student at Kandolph Macon Col-lege, where he
Makers of America; biographies of leading men of thought and action, the men who constitute the bone and sinew of American prosperity and life . s, had been for the mostpart Virginia farmers. John Chowning had the usual rearingof a boy on a Virginia plantation in the years before the CivilWar. From his seventh until his twelfth vear he attended a *s private school near his home, during the next three years hewas sent to a boarding school at Lancaster Court House, andthen spent one year at Bloomfield Academy in AlbemarleCounty. He afterwards became a student at Kandolph Macon Col-lege, where he was when Virginia seceded from the Union. Heleft College immediately and enlisted in the first Company whichleft Lancaster County for the front. This Company was after-wards known as Company F of the 47th Virginia Regiment. In1862 he was transferred to Company D, 9th Virginia three and a half years he shared in all the campaigns, re-ceiving two slight wounds, neither of which disabled him eventemporarily, but in October, 1864, he received a very seriouswound from which he had not fullv recovered when the war *. ended. [ 556 ].
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