COL. EVERARD MEADE FEILD,
Born in Greenville county, Virginia, July 18, 1831, is the son of Theophilus
A. Feild, who was born in Brunswick county, Virginia, and died
in 1857, and Jane Wyatt, also now deceased. Theophilus A. Feild was
a son of Dr. Richard Feild, also of Brunswick county. At Washington,
D. C., May 17, 1852, Rev. Horace Stringfellow officiating, Everard M.
Feild married Maria Louisa Fox. She was the daughter of S. Moylan
Fox, now deceased, and Louisa Linton, and was born in Johnstown,
Pennsylvania, September 15, 1836. Mrs. Feild died at her husband's
residence in Petersburg, on August 3, 1884. Their children were eleven,
born in the order named: Fannie B., Edward W. (died January, 1857),
Jessie V., Louisa L., Everard M., Theophilus A., Hubbard M., Mary C.
and Lizzie F., twins, Henry B., Moylan C.
Colonel Feild went to school in Greenville county, Sussex county, and
at Petersburg. He left school at the age of sixteen years, and went
into the wholesale grocery business, in which he continued until his
marriage. He then went to Greenville county, where he farmed until
the war. He entered the Confederate States Army as captain of Company
F, 12th Virginia Infantry, which regiment was assigned to Mahone's
brigade. In 1862 he was made major of the regiment; in 1863
was promoted lieutenant colonel, and at battle of the Crater, 1864,
was promoted colonel. He was slightly wounded in second battle of
the Wilderness, while in command of Mahone's brigade sharpshooters,
and severely wounded at Spottsylvania C. H., May 12, 1864. He
served till the close of the war, and was in battles of Seven Pines,
Sharpsburg, and second Wilderness; commanded regiment in battles of
Fredericksburg, Chancellorsvile, Gettysburg, Culpeper C. H., Spottsylvania
C. H., Mine Run and several others.
After the close of the war Colonel Feild returned to Greenville county,
where he farmed until 1870, when he came to Petersburg as express
agent for the A. M. & Ohio R. R., with which company he remained until,
in 1885, he accepted his present position, deputy collector of United
States Internal Revenue; service at Petersburg.
