Andrew Stevenson Papers, 1860-1862 A Civil War Collection Civil
War Manuscripts top level About this Collection Thomas Andrew
Stevenson (known as Andrew), was born in 1841 in Richmond,
Virginia, the only son of Thomas Peter Stevenson and Mary
Elizabeth Powell. He had three sisters: Mary Ann (b. January
1839), Maria Cullen (b. May 1840), and Elizabeth Duncan (b.
1850). Andrew entered the Virginia Military Institute in
September 1860 and was a cadet eyewitness to the events at VMI
just prior to and after the beginning of the Civil War. In April
1861, he was assigned as a cadet drillmaster in Richmond,
Virginia, helping to prepare the new recruits for service in the
Confederate Army; he subsequently joined the 8th Virginia
Infantry Regiment. Following the war, he was a teacher and then
a lawyer, finally settling in Missouri during the 1870's. He
married twice. His date of death is unknown. The papers consist
of three letters (1860-1861) written by Cadet Stevenson to his
older sister Maria, in which he discusses