Biography
The grandson of Major William Haymond, Haymond was born in 1794 in Fairmont, West Virginia to William Haymond Jr. and Cynthia Carroll. He attended private schools as a child and went on to attend the College of William and Mary. He served as a Private (rank), private in the War of 1812, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1815, commencing practice in Morgantown, West Virginia, Morgantown. He was president of the county court of the newly formed Marion County, West Virginia, Marion County in 1842 before being elected as a Whig Party (United States), Whig to the United States House of Representatives to fill a vacancy in 1849, serving until 1851. Haymond was a History of Confederate States Army Generals#Brigadier general, brigadier general in the Virginia Militia and, at the outbreak of the American Civil War, Civil War in 1861, entered the Confederate States Army, Confederate Army as a Colonel (United States), colonel, serving throughout the war. Haymond died in Richmond, Virginia, on April 5, 1869 and was interred in Palatine Cemetery near Fairmont.External links
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