Col. James Risque Hutter [10265]

  General Notes:

Suffered from a disabling illness October and November 1861. Wounded in action and a Prisoner of War July 3, 1863. Promoted to Major while in prison September 24, 1863. Exchanged early 1865. Prisoner of War again April 1, 1865 at Five Forks. Released from Johnson's Island July 25, 1865.

University of Virginia and VMI class of 1860. Was a farmer and surveyor.

More: Graduated from VMI in July 1860 and made a brilliant record as a Confederate officer in the Civil War, in which he rose to the rank of Colonel. He was wounded and captured at Pickett's celebrated charge in the battle for Gettysburg, and after his exchange he was recaptured and served as a prisoner of war until the end of the conflict.

After his graduation from VMI he was a student of medicine at Charleston, South Carolina from September 1860 until February 1861, where his father was stationed as paymaster in the U. S. Army.
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James Risque Hutter, born at "Sandusky," October 18, 1841. Graduated at Virginia Military In- stitute, July, 1860; entered the Confederate Army, May 16, 1861, as Captain of Company H, 11th Virginia Infantry. Promoted to Major, 1863; Lieutenant Colonel, 1864; and Colonel, 1865. Wounded and captured on "Cemetery Hill," Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, in Pickett's famous charge; was exchanged January 27, 1865; recaptured at Five Forks, Va., April I, 1865, and held as prisoner of war until July, 1865. Married Charlotte Stannard Hutter, daughter of Edward Sixtus Hutter at "Poplar Forest." Va., October 30, 1877.

James married Charlotte Stannard Hutter [10267] [MRIN: 3384], daughter of Edward Sixtus Hutter [10256] and Emma Williams Cobbs [10269], on 30 Oct 1877 in Poplar Forest, Bedford County, Virginia. (Charlotte Stannard Hutter [10267] was born on 19 Mar 1857 in Poplar Forest, Bedford County, Virginia and died on 26 Oct 1930 in Sandusky, Campbell County, Virginia.)