On June 9, Wyndham was boldly leading a charge at the Battle of Brandy Station when he suffered a leg wound. During his recovery, he was reassigned to duty in Washington, D.C., and he never returned to the unit. Late in 1863 he resigned his commission for undisclosed reasons.

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Ever on the move, Wyndham took part in a number of ventures after the war. He relocated to Calcutta, India, and later to Rangoon, Burma. On February 3, 1879, his obituary appeared in the London Times. In part it read: “News of a sad accident comes from Rangoon. Colonel Percy Wyndham, a gentleman well known in Calcutta and Rangoon, announced an ascent in a balloon of his own construction. After attaining a height of about 500 feet the balloon burst, and the unfortunate aeronaut fell into the Royal Lake, whence he was extricated quite dead.”

Conrad was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1866. In 1878 he was elected to the Virginia legislature and so distinguished himself that President Grover Cleveland appointed him assistant attorney general and then solicitor general of the United States. Subsequently, Conrad joined the law faculty at Georgetown University in 1901, where he lectured on the history of English law. During the last 20 years of his life, he engaged in numerous legal appeals before the Supreme Court. Throughout his life, Conrad maintained his home in Winchester, where he married twice and fathered seven children. On September 4, 1915, the old trooper died at his residence.

This article was written by W. Cullen Sherwood and Ben Ritter and published in the November 2006 issue of America’s Civil War magazine.For more great articles be sure to subscribe to America’s Civil War magazine today!

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