Llewellyn Griffith Hoxton

Class of  May 1861

“6. Llewellyn Griffith Hoxton (born in Washington, D.C., appointed at large) resigned from the U.S. army on May 25, 1861, and served in the confederate artillery. He taught mathematics at the Episcopal High School of Virginia near Alexandria and died in 1891.” [Ralph Kirschner, The Class of 1861 (1999), p. 154. Pictured on plates between pages 12 and 13.]

“Llewellyn Hoxton, who came from a distinguished family in northern Virginia, had been du Pont’s roommate at West Point.” Hoxton resigned and went to Virginia. Henry Algernon du Pont was very upset by this and wrote his aunt, “I have been very much pained at the conduct of some of my best and most intimate friends of other days, but friends of mine no longer now. Hoxton you know very well . . . however the less said about the business the better.” [Ralph Kirschner, The Class of 1861 (1999), p. 15-16.]