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This article was in the CONFEDERATE VETERAN, dated 1910.
[It is not my family, only post, in hope to help someone].
CHAMP WARREN PATTIE, whose death occured at Clear Lake, Iowa on April 13, was a native of Fauquier County, Va.,being born near Warrenton in 1838. He was educated by tutors and in private schools until he was 18, when he entered a mercantile firm at Moorefield. He there joined a military company known as the "Hardy Blues", which had been organized in 1840 and his company became a part of the 25th Virginia Infantry, under Col. Pegram of Gen. Imboden's Brigade. Comrade PATTIE was wounded in the Battle of Kernstown in March, 1862, losing an eye, but he soon rejoined his command and fought through the war. He was in the Battle of Gettysburg and surrendered at Appomattox.
Returning home after the war, he engaged in business with his old employers, purchasing a half interest in the business which had been located in Romney, now W. Va. He removed west in 1875. He first located at Dubuque, Iowa ,going a year later to Dyersville and then to Storm Lake in 1888. About 6 years ago he went to Clear Lake, where he became prominent and highly esteemed as a citizen.
The TOM HOWARD POST, G.A.R. ,attended the funeral services in a body, thus manifesting their esteem for a good soldier and comrade of the opposite side.
He was married in 1869 to MISS NANCY M. HARPER, of Romney, and to them were born 5 children of whom 4 survive-two sons and two daughters.
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