| Summary: | (Uniform indicates rank of brigadier general.) Enlisted as a private when Virginia seceded, but was commissioned as a captain in Virginia's Black Horse Cavalry in April 1861. After promoting through the grades, Payne was promoted to brigadier general in November 1864. Major campaigns and battles include Williamsburg (wounded and captured), Chancellorsville, Brandy Station, Hanover (wounded and captured), the 1864 Shenandoah campaign, Cedar Creek, Petersburg, and the defense of Richmond (wounded and captured). Following the war, Payne returned to his Virginia law practice. He died in Washington, D.C., in March 1904 and is buried in Warrenton, Virginia. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. 4. National Historical Society, 1991.
|
|---|
