John Minor Botts (1802–1869)

Statesman, born in Dumfries, Prince William County, VA, on the 16th of September 1802; died in Culpeper, VA, on the 7th of January 1869. He was admitted to the bar at the age of eighteen; was sent to the state legislature, and thence to Congress (1839). During the Civil War he retired to his farm at Culpeper Courthouse. After the war Mr. Botts published a volume entitled The Great Rebellion: Its Secret History, Rise, Progress and Disastrous Failure. He was a delegate to the Philadelphia national convention of Southern loyalists, and later signed his name to the bail bond of Jefferson Davis.