Taliaferro Family Reunion

During their 2017 Taliaferro Family Reunion, the family visited the sites where their great grandfather, William A. "Willie" Taliaferro and his friend Benjamin "Benny" Fleet were shot during the Civil War.
In 1864 Willie Taliaferro and his boyhood friend Benny Fleet, both Confederates, were shot by Union soldiers in King & Queen County, Virginia. Benny was killed and Willie was shot through the bowel. A "kind Union officer" (as described by the Taliaferro family), Rubin Bartley, rigged a stretcher for Willie and took him 1 1/2 miles to a house (Turpin's Mill), where a doctor was called and saved Willie's life. After the War, Willie and Rubin communicated and became friends. The story is told by their descendants and relatives, the Taliaferros and Robert Bartley.