William Overall Yager

Deceased Person

1833 – 1904

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Who was William Overall Yager?

William Overall Yager was, during the American Civil War, initially the major and commanding officer of Yager's Third Battalion Texas Mounted Volunteers, and then later, as colonel and commanding officer of the First Texas Cavalry, and, in postwar years, member of the Virginia House of Delegates and the Senate of Virginia, Superintendent of Schools, and Treasurer for Page County, Virginia.

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Born
Apr 3, 1833
Page County
Education
  • Virginia Military Institute
Died
Jan 20, 1904
Page County

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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