Does anyone know what Cawood did after the war?

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Lucy Jane Johnson Macon Cawood 1st husband.

EDGAR MACON,

OF ORANGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA; SECOND LIEUTENANT, THOMAS ARTILLERY.

Edgar Macon, son of Conway and Agnes Macon, was born in Orange County, Virginia, in 1828. In August, 1845, he was appointed a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute, and spent some time at that school. Afterwards he became a merchant in his native county, continuing as such until the outbreak of the war. From the first an earnest and warm secessionist, as soon as the Virginia Convention passed the ordinance, though on a sick-bed from a long and serious illness, he immediately arose and went to work to assist in raising and organizing the Thomas Artillery, of which he was elected a lieutenant. This company was first sent to Winchester, thence went with Johnston's army on his forced march to Manassas, going on foot ninety miles in twenty-four hours, under a scorching sun and with scarcely any food. Reaching Manassas on the morning of the 21st of July, 1861, the battery went at once into battle, then at its fiercest, and nobly did its part till the field was won. Lieutenant Macon, after having borne the heat and burden of the day, fell a victim to a random shot, fired after the battle was over and the enemy were retiring. He had just mounted his horse, preparatory to withdrawing from the field, when he was struck by a shell and instantly killed.

Nothing can better express the love and esteem with which he was regarded by all who knew him than the following extract from the letter of a friend written at that time:

"Of the many who laid their lives as a sacrifice upon the altar of their country on that memorable day, none could have done so more lamented than our noble young friend. After bravely fighting for more than eight hours by the guns under his charge, he fell, and as the shout of victory rose upon his ear, his spirit rose to Him who gave it. Who would not die a patriot's death? While we deeply lament his loss, we feel that he died gloriously in a glorious cause."

Lieutenant Macon was the only son of a widowed mother, and left a wife and an infant son, born three days before his death, and never seen by him.

He was a great-nephew of President Madison, and his remains repose in the cemetery at Montpelier, where rest his ancestors of many generations.

Possessed of a warm, loving, and genial disposition, he won the hearts of all, and in the domestic relations of life, as son, brother, and husband, he pre-eminently shone,—being excelled by none.

From: memorial, virginia military institue. biographical sketches of the graduates ...
By charles d. walker