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'''Henry Coalter Cabell House''' is a historic home located in [[Richmond, Virginia]]. Its name reflects prominent Richmond attorney and Confederate officer Henry Coalter Cabell, who rented the elegant house for many years.<ref name="DVB">{{cite book | first=Graham T.| last=Dozier |
==Henry Coalter Cabell==
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Cabell accepted his first military commission as major of the 1st regiment Virginia Volunteers on December 1, 1857, and was promoted to captain of the 4th Regiment Virginia Artillery (a/k/a Fayette artillery) on December 21, 1859. A week after Virginia seceded, Cabell's artillery battery was activated and saw action at Gloucester Point in May. He received a promotion to lieutenant colonel of the 1st Regisment Virginia Artillery in September 1861 and by the following spring was promoted to artillery chief under John Bankhead Magruder and participated in the siege of [[Yorktown, Virginia|Yorktown]]. Cabell received a promotion to full colonel on July 4, 1862, Cabell led an artillery battalion in Lafayette McLaw's division. That unit fought at the Battle of Antietem, the Battle of Fredericksburg at year end, the Battle of Chancellorsville, and supported Pickett's charge at the Battle of Gettysburg. Col. Cabell commanded a First Corps artillery battalion at the Battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, North Anna and Cold Harbor, and several times at the Siege of Petersburg acted as chief of artillery. Several Confederate generals recommended that Cabell be made a brigadier general on March 30, 1865, but no vacancy existed so he never received the promotion. He also did not surrender at Appomattox, because he and several other artillery officers engaged federal artillery on April 8, 1865 and had escaped toward Lynchburg. However, Cabell returned to Richmond, took the oath of allegeiance on July 26, 1865 and received a presidential pardon from Andrew Jackson on August 1, 1865.<ref name="DVB" />
Following the conflict, Cabell was financially embarrassed . However, he resumed his law partnership with his brother in law William Daniel, formerly a judge of the Virginia Supreme Court. On January 11, 1884 his wife died after her clothing caught fire in this home, so Cabell moved to rooms at the Saint Claire Hotel in Richmond, where he died and was buried at historic Hollywood cemetery.<ref name="DVB" />
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