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Barksdale, Randolph, born in Amelia county, Virginia, October 25. 1831, son of William Jones Barksdale, and
Marianna Tabb, his wife, daughter of John Tabb, of the committee of safety, and granddaughter of Sir John Peyton,
of Isleham, Gloucester county, Virginia. He was educated in private schools, and at Amelia Academy, from which
he entered the University of Virginia in 1848, where he remained three years. From there he went to the University
of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in medicine in 1852. After spending twelve months in the Philadelphia Hospital
(Blockley), he went abroad, studying medicine and attending clinics, for a year and a half in Paris. In 1856 he
began the practice of his profession in Richmond, Virginia, where he remained until the beginning of the civil
war. In June, 1861, he joined the Confederate army, and was first assistant surgeon. He was afterwards surgeon
on Gen. Longstreet's staff, where he remained until the surrender at Appomattox Court House. From 1870 until 1896
he was superintendent cf the Central Lunatic Asylum of Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia Medical Society,
and was a Democrat in politics. His first wife was Elizabeth Macfarland, of Richmond, Virginia, whom he married
in 1858, and by whom he had three children. His second wife was Miss Patteson, oF Petersburg, Virginia, whom he
married in 1890.
FROM:
Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography
Volume III
By: Lyon Gardiner Tyler, LL. D.
Lewis Historical Publishing Company
New York 1915
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