Charles Pearre Cabell led the most successful military career of any of his kinsmen. He graduated from West Point in 1925 and served initially with the 12th Field Artillery. He reoriented his career from the land to the air in 1931, however, when he completed Advanced Flying School in 1931 at Kelly Field, Texas. He […]

  Self published thirty-nine books between 1935 and 1977. Shown at left is the 1965 edition of her popular Horseman’s Almanac and Handbook.     Teaching the Young to Ride, Harper, 1935, enlarged edition, A. S. Barnes, 1946. Red Clay Country, Harper, 1936. Horses: Their Selection, Care and Handling, A. S. Barnes, 1943. Those Smith […]

Margaret Logan Cabell was born in Cincinnati, Ohio but spent her childhood years at Warminster, in the heart of Cabell country, Virginia. She learned to ride even before she could walk and became an adept rider before leaving in her teenage years to attend school in New York City. She attended the Women’s School of […]

James Branch Cabell, a native of Richmond, Virginia, published over fifty books and myriad newspaper articles. The great-great-great-grandson of family patriarch William Cabell, his achievements in the field of literature complemented the victories of earlier generations of Cabells in war and public service. He wrote on topics from the fantastic to the genealogical and gained […]

Though his father, Joseph C. Breckinridge, was a decorated general in the United States Army, Joseph C. Breckinridge, Jr. decided at a young age to pursue a career in the Navy instead. He enrolled at Naval Academy in Annapolis in 1888, at the age of sixteen. Classmates at the Naval Academy remembered Breckinridge as a […]

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Breckinridge left his home state to study at Centre College (Kentucky) and at the University of Virginia. Unlike the vast majority of his kinsmen and his classmates at the University of Virginia, chose not to fight with the Confederate Army but with the Union. He enlisted in Kentucky, with Gen. William […]

William D. Cabell was born to Mayo and Mary Daniel Cabell at the family throne of “Union Hill” in 1834. Cabell completed either two or three years at the University of Virginia (official records indicate his presence in 1852-53, but his personal notes indicate that he also attended the 1851-52 and possibly the 1853-54 sessions). […]

William L. Cabell, son of Benjamin W. S. Cabell, a Major General of the militia in Virginia, followed his father’s footsteps into the military. At the age of nineteen, his biggest decision was not which career path to take, but which of two routes into military service he should take. Presented with the option of […]

          Gen. Benjamin Cabell was born on his family’s estate, “Repton,” on the James River. After attending school at Hampden-Sydney, he emigrated with his father, “Repton” Joseph Cabell, Jr., to Kentucky in 1811. He soon returned to Virginia and, finding a military career more exciting than the life of a of […]

Joseph Carrington Cabell’s Chief Collaborator Though not a lineal descendent of William Cabell, bonds of friendship joined John Hartwell Cocke–the Virginia planter, reformer, general, and statesman–to the Cabell family. After he converted to Christianity under the gentle ministrations of his first wife, Ann, Cocke devoted himself to public service and to social reform. On several […]